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Kevin Keller

Legal Counsel at Adept

Sunnyvale, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Legal Counsel (Head of Legal)

    2024 - Current

    Legal and operational support for the development and deployment of useful general intelligence agents powered by multi-modal AI models. Responsible for regulatory, intellectual property, privacy, commercial and operational support for development and go to market teams. Achievements include development of agreements for commercialization of AI powered agents as a service and launching a patent program to protect inventions fundamental to the operation of AI powered agentic systems.

  • Angel Investor

    2015

    Early investor in a range of industries from food science and health to space stations and solar cells.

  • Co-Founder and Member of the Board

    1998

    Co-founded non-profit tech incubator operating at many of the top grad schools in the U.S.

  • General Counsel

    2022 - 2024

    Led legal and compliance functions for Series C startup focused on travel, e-commerce and fintech. Managed litigation, employment, commercial and go to market support. Supported brand transition and related trademark filings and domain purchases. Completed 3 part Series C fundraising and secondary offering, oversaw multiple layoffs, supported sale of e-commerce business, advised board on privacy, security and employment matters.

  • Head of Product Legal

    2021 - 2022

    Hired, developed and managed product counsel legal team supporting marketplace, ads, enterprise solution, hardware solutions and gig-working/shopper.

  • Director & Associate General Counsel, Product

    2019 - 2021

    Led the legal team supporting Facebooks growth, connectivity and social impact. Lead counsel for cross-product integrations.

  • AGC & Director of Legal - Devices & Services

    2008 - 2019

    Built Amazon's legal function to support hardware development and acquisition, including all Amazon consumer electronic products, Amazon Go and Amazon consumer robotics. Advised cross-company on patent licensing, operations,supply chain and contract and contracting process simplification.

  • Attorney - OEM software licensing and Hardware/semiconductor development and manufacture

    2005 - 2008

    Led support for custom silicon development and manufacture for Xbox, Zune and other Microsoft products; led development and OEM licensing program for Microsoft IPTV.

  • Senior Technology Transactions Associate

    2003 - 2005

    IP/Commercial transactions for technology companies in all industries.

  • Technology Counsel

    2002 - 2003

    IP/Commercial transactions, compliance management and trademark support.

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