Full Name
Sharon Segev
Job Title
Chief Business Affairs & Legal Officer
Organization
Smule, Inc.
Speaker Bio
Legal & Business Executive
Awards: 2017 Silicon Valley Business Journal Corporate Counsel – Public Company General Counsel of the Year Award; 2016 Silicon Valley Woman of Influence; 2013 Silicon Valley Women Leaders in Tech Law
Seasoned executive known for her strategic vision and passion for leading highly effective teams, that navigate fast pace growth by combining excellence, tenacity and creativity. Her extensive business operations and legal experience include overseeing corporate development, legal, compliance, board governance, culture and talent, licensing, and business practices. Sharon holds a dual degree in accounting and law and enjoys leveraging the intersection between the two to grow companies, teams and people.
Sharon is the Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer at Smule (www.smule.com) - where she helps connect the world through music! At Smule, she manages the business affairs, music licensing and legal focus areas, including talent and culture. She takes pride in building strong teams with a combination of business and legal acumen.
Prior to Smule, Sharon was the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at LifeLock (NYSE: LOCK), a leading identity theft protection service provider, recently acquired by Symantec for ~$2.4 Billion – following a competitive bidding process where Segev played an instrumental role advising the Board and leading the company to a great outcome. At LifeLock Segev helped raise the compliance and information security bar, while enabling the company to continuously innovate and excel by navigating through evolving complex regulatory requirements and implementing tools and processes that allow for efficiency and scale. Prior to LifeLock, Segev was the Vice President, Corporate Development & General Counsel at Elo Touch Solutions, a multinational interactive touch solution provider. At Elo she built the legal department from the grounds up and implemented an agile and efficient infrastructure, responsible for M&A and strategic transactions, IP strategy, and worldwide legal operations. Prior to Elo, Sharon was Vice President, Associate General Counsel & Assistant Secretary at Cadence Design Systems (Nasdaq: CDNS). For Cadence, she led the acquisitions of over a dozen of start-ups and publicly traded companies and was also responsible for corporate governance, compliance and business practices, as she restructured worldwide commercial practices and compliance programs.
Sharon cemented the earlier stages of her career in top law firms, including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Herzog, Fox & Neeman, handling a wide range of legal matters for multinational private and public companies, including SEC compliance and IPO readiness. Her dual degrees in law and accounting helped her develop strong business acumen, as an advantage in orchestrating legal solutions. She prides herself at identifying diverse talented people and helping them excel.
Through different panels, speaking engagements, and professional forums, Sharon is vocal about legal contribution to business practices, IP protection, M&A, information security, privacy and compliance, women’s leadership and creative team building.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-segev-6834651/
Awards: 2017 Silicon Valley Business Journal Corporate Counsel – Public Company General Counsel of the Year Award; 2016 Silicon Valley Woman of Influence; 2013 Silicon Valley Women Leaders in Tech Law
Seasoned executive known for her strategic vision and passion for leading highly effective teams, that navigate fast pace growth by combining excellence, tenacity and creativity. Her extensive business operations and legal experience include overseeing corporate development, legal, compliance, board governance, culture and talent, licensing, and business practices. Sharon holds a dual degree in accounting and law and enjoys leveraging the intersection between the two to grow companies, teams and people.
Sharon is the Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer at Smule (www.smule.com) - where she helps connect the world through music! At Smule, she manages the business affairs, music licensing and legal focus areas, including talent and culture. She takes pride in building strong teams with a combination of business and legal acumen.
Prior to Smule, Sharon was the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at LifeLock (NYSE: LOCK), a leading identity theft protection service provider, recently acquired by Symantec for ~$2.4 Billion – following a competitive bidding process where Segev played an instrumental role advising the Board and leading the company to a great outcome. At LifeLock Segev helped raise the compliance and information security bar, while enabling the company to continuously innovate and excel by navigating through evolving complex regulatory requirements and implementing tools and processes that allow for efficiency and scale. Prior to LifeLock, Segev was the Vice President, Corporate Development & General Counsel at Elo Touch Solutions, a multinational interactive touch solution provider. At Elo she built the legal department from the grounds up and implemented an agile and efficient infrastructure, responsible for M&A and strategic transactions, IP strategy, and worldwide legal operations. Prior to Elo, Sharon was Vice President, Associate General Counsel & Assistant Secretary at Cadence Design Systems (Nasdaq: CDNS). For Cadence, she led the acquisitions of over a dozen of start-ups and publicly traded companies and was also responsible for corporate governance, compliance and business practices, as she restructured worldwide commercial practices and compliance programs.
Sharon cemented the earlier stages of her career in top law firms, including Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Herzog, Fox & Neeman, handling a wide range of legal matters for multinational private and public companies, including SEC compliance and IPO readiness. Her dual degrees in law and accounting helped her develop strong business acumen, as an advantage in orchestrating legal solutions. She prides herself at identifying diverse talented people and helping them excel.
Through different panels, speaking engagements, and professional forums, Sharon is vocal about legal contribution to business practices, IP protection, M&A, information security, privacy and compliance, women’s leadership and creative team building.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-segev-6834651/