Corporate & Securities Law

Webcast on ?Contracts in the Technology Sector?

By Ken Adams

I’m on the panel for a webcast on the topic of “Contracts in the Technology Sector.” It’s being hosted by West Legalworks; click here to go to relevant page of the West website.

It’s being held on Friday, May 23, from noon to 1:00PM EDT. It will also be available on demand. I hope you’ll be able to join us.

The marketing information provides only the briefest of bios of the panel members. I’ll assume that you know more than enough about me, so here are more informative bios of the other panel members. They’re an all-star bunch.

Tim Cummins is President/CEO of The International Association for Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM), a non-profit foundation recognized as the international authority on the role of contracting and Commitment Management in the global networked economy. A leader in research and innovative learning techniques, IACCM works with corporations and public and academic bodies to provide thought-leadership and understanding of ?best practice? contracting and relationship standards. IACCM defines organizational models and skills to ensure integrity, trust, and the collaborative trading relationships that are necessary to support continued development of global standards. Tim has led IACCM since 1999 and brings cross-industry, multi-country experience to the role, having worked as a top negotiator and business development executive. His writing is extensively published and he acts in an advisory capacity to senior corporate management and bodies that include the United Nations and government departments in the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Japan.

Craig Guarente is the Vice President for Global Contract Services at Oracle USA Inc. In this position he is responsible for managing contract services teams supporting all sales organizations, including those handling licensing, consulting, hosting/outsourcing, subcontracting, and education sales. Craig also manages the License Management Services department (Customer Compliance) and Field Business Practices teams. In addition to his management responsibilities, Craig is responsible for establishing Oracle’s global contracting processes. This involves working with executive management, sales, IT, and product development on global contracting automation and system solutions, ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, and assisting the divisional contracting leads in meeting their regional requirements. Craig also works closely with Oracle?s mergers-and-acquisitions teams to ensure proper integration of staff and processes from acquired companies.

Diane Homolak has 23 years of experience in commercial contracting. She is currently Director for Americas Legal Quality and Operations with Hewlett-Packard Company. Diane has managed HP’s US direct-sales-contracting team of managers and negotiators in support of over $6 billion in annual revenue across all of HP’s product and service offerings. She has also managed HP’s Worldwide Legal Business Enabling team, with responsibility for tools, processes, and improvements across the contracting function. And she has managed the buy side of contracting through HP?s inbound commercial organization, focusing on contracting for new technology in HP product development. Diane has a JD from Cleveland Marshall College of Law and an MBA and Bachelors in Economics from Ohio University. She is a member of the board of directors of IACCM.

Christina L. Kunz is professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she has taught since 1980. Her teaching areas include contracts, UCC sales, international sales of goods, UCC payments, negotiating and drafting business agreements (focused on technology contracts), legal research and writing, and a new seminar on online games. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, where she is a member of the advisory committee to the Principles of the Law of Software Contracts. She co-chairs the ABA Subcommittee on Electronic Commerce (within the Cyberspace Law Committee), and she is on the Executive Council of the Business Law Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association. She teaches a two-day certification course on technology contracts for the Institute for Supply Management (formerly the National Association of Purchasing Management). She and Professor Carol Chomsky have published two editions of their textbook Sale of Goods: Reading and Applying the Code (Thomson West). She also is a co-author of The Process of Legal Research and the companion textbook Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Writing (both by Aspen Publishers).

Full post as published by AdamsDrafting on May 13, 2008 (boomark / email).