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John W. Kuo is a retired general counsel of Fortune 1000 and start-up companies and now serves on company and not-for-profit boards and engages in community and volunteer activities.

Currently, John is on the board of directors of Mirion Technologies (NYSE:MIR), a radiation safety company. He is also on the board of trustees of Amani Public Charter School in Mt. Vernon, NY, the board of the Institute on Aging in San Francisco, and the advisory council of the Asian Pacific Fund, as well as past chairman of the Administrative Board of Cornell University Council and past President of the Berkeley Law Alumni Association Board.

He has been in life sciences for most of his career, most notably 15 years as SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Varian Medical Systems, a Fortune 1000/S&P500 medical device company devoted to treating cancer. John has worked in the energy, high tech and life sciences industries, and has been an expat working in Scotland and Singapore. John speaks on cross-border transactions, general counsel practice, corporate governance and diversity & inclusion.

John and his teams have been recognized with the 2020 Dale Minami Public Interest Trailblazer Award; 2018 Asian Law Alliance Business Impact Award; National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s 2017 Diversity Leadership Award; 2016 Silicon Valley Business Journal's Corporate Counsel Lifetime Achievement Award; and the 2015 Asian American Legal Education and Defense Fund's Justice in Action award.

As a strong advocate for diversity in the C-suite and on company boards, John helped architect Ascend Leadership’s Board Advancement Initiative to increase AAPI representation on public company boards. Additionally, John recently co-taught a seminar at Stanford Law School on Asian Americans and the Law.