Kasey Sax

Experience

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  Broadcasting Board of Governors

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2006

  Assistant General Counsel

  Oversaw BBG’s intellectual property interests including developing and implementing music licensing and copyright clearance policies and procedures, drafting and negotiating content license agreements, registration of domestic and international marks. Drafted and negotiated agreements for the establishment of international broadcast facilities including securing television, radio and satellite frequencies and local broadcast permissions. Drafted board resolutions, federal regulations, and intergovernmental agreements. Advised management on commercial and government contracts, FAR and DFAR regulations, corporate governance, intellectual and real property, employment, privacy laws, and international telecommunications laws and regulations. Represented and advised management on contract and employment disputes including representation in federal and administrative courts with twenty-four out of twenty-four decisions in the BBG’s favor. Show less

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  VeriSign, Inc.

  Dec 2006 - Apr 2008

  Corporate Counsel

  Drafted and negotiated domestic and international intellectual property license, development, acquisition and service agreements across VeriSign’s business verticals including telecommunications, financial services, digital security, consulting, domain name registry and content management systems. Provided advice on the legal impact of newly developed products and services. Drafted workarounds, presented alternatives and proposed solutions to achieve VeriSign business objectives. Interpreted and provided advice on agreements with an understanding of the business context. Apprised company executives of legal and business risk management issues. Counseled clients regarding customer and vendor disputes. Developed company wide export compliance policy and guidelines specifically focused on the export of encryption technology. Show less

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  AOL Inc.

  Apr 2008 - Apr 2015

  Assistant General Counsel

  Chief counsel for AOL's global video and video advertising; brand marketing; advertising attribution and data and analytics business units. Responsible for overseeing all day to day domestic and international legal aspects arising in the divisions including responsibility for full product life cycle of PaaS and SaaS advertising and video publishing products, services and enterprise sales; data collection, management and security; privacy compliance; live programming, in-house and joint productions; and ecommerce. Coordinate with tax, finance, and corporate governance teams on entity creation and structure, entity and employee compliance issues (including SEC, FCC, FTC, and OFAC compliance), financing and domestic and international tax issues. Advise executive leadership team and senior management on a wide range of commercial transaction, pre-litigation, corporate, ethics, compliance and business risk issues. Managed and supervised contract manager staff. Show less

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  Nasdaq

  Jun 2015 - now

  Lead commercial counsel for Nasdaq's Global Information Services division (representing 33% of Nasdaq, Inc. revenue) including affiliates Quandl, Inc. and Dorsey, Wright, & Associates LLC with responsibility for overseeing all legal aspects of Nasdaq's index licensing, alternative and non-regulated data and registered investment advisor business as well as all commercial transactions for Nasdaq regulated data businesses. Lead attorney for Nasdaq's Operations and Compliance Network LLC which hosts, operates and maintains alternative trading platforms on behalf banks and brokers. Served as primary commercial attorney for Nasdaq's global trading and market services, corporate communications, and marketing and branding divisions. Coordinate with tax, finance, and corporate governance teams on entity creation and structure, entity and employee compliance issues (including SEC, FCC, FTC, and OFAC compliance), financing and domestic and international tax issues. Worked directly with and advise executive leadership team including Nasdaq CEO and CFO and other senior management on a wide range of commercial transaction, pre-litigation, corporate, ethics, compliance and business risk issues. Show less

  • Vice President, Deputy General Counsel

    Oct 2022 - now

  • Associate Vice President - Principal Associate General Counsel

    Jun 2015 - Oct 2022