Lisa is an experienced IP lawyer, with over twenty years of experience protecting IP rights and technology. She began her career as a patent litigator in global law firms, including Wilson Sonsini, and has continued to build her reputation as a savvy business advisor working in-house with technology companies on a wide variety of matters.
Her in-house practice focuses on collaborating with engineers and executives in CTO, R&D, and operations teams to provide practical legal strategies and advice involving product development, IP protection, patent litigation, technology transactions, product and enterprise security, and privacy issues.
Currently, Lisa serves as Associate General Counsel, Technology Transactions & Global Operations at Bloom Energy, where she leads legal strategy for complex IP deals, AI initiatives, and supply chain innovation. Her prior roles include negotiating technology transactions and advising on frontier technologies—AI, quantum computing, autonomous flight—at Booz Allen Hamilton, and leading a global legal team at Infinera (now Nokia), supporting its R&D and optical chip fabrication, global trade compliance, and security initiatives. She has also held senior legal roles at Hitachi and LSI Logic, focusing on IP litigation and negotiating complex technology transactions.
A frequent speaker on IP, AI, and licensing, Lisa has presented at PLI, Santa Clara School of Law, FRAND symposiums, and industry events. During law school, she was deeply involved in SCU’s IP and High-Tech Law Programs, serving as Managing Editor of the Computer & High Technology Law Journal, President of the IP Law Association, and Board Member on the High-Tech Advisory Board. Her personal life is filled with community service, travel, music concerts and cheering on her active family in all they do from competitive sports to cooking.
B.A. Communications, minor Political Science, CSU Fullerton.