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Dan Haley

Sudbury,MA

Summary

A seasoned, collaborative, results-oriented senior legal and administrative executive leader with extensive experience building and leading high-performing legal and business support teams in the information technology sector through complex business challenges, and partnering with boards and executive peers to achieve sustained growth and a thriving corporate culture.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Guild
Denver (remote), CO
04.2023 - Current
  • The first General Counsel of an innovative B Corporation / Public Benefit Corporation, deploying a first-of-its-kind technology platform to create opportunity for America's Workforce by enabling degreed education and skilling programs at enterprise employers nationwide
  • Built and scaled full-stack legal, compliance, and information security functions through a combination of upskilling, targeted recruiting, and followership
  • Served as key advisor to Founder CEO, her successor, the executive team, and the Board of Directors through successful transition necessitated unexpectedly by a significant health crisis
  • Participated in, and led aspects of, a major corporate transformation with highly successful operational and financial outcomes

SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Sprinklr, Inc.
New York, NY
09.2019 - 03.2023
  • As Sprinklr's first General Counsel, built and scaled full-service, global legal, compliance, and information security teams with reputations internally and externally for collaboration, business-enablement, and affability
  • Led creation of risk management and mitigation frameworks, with a focus on cyber security and data privacy in the context of a highly-innovative, data-centric, AI-powered marketing technology business
  • Managed all legal aspects of successful initial public offering, and governance/compliance evolution from private to public company life
  • Executive co-sponsor of Company's "We Care" Diversity and Inclusion program

SVP, Chief Legal And Administrative Officer

athenahealth, Inc.
Watertown, MA
01.2012 - 06.2019

SVP, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer (August 2017-February 2019)

Interim Chief Human Resources Officer (March 2019-June 2019; corporate change in control)

  • Led global legal, compliance, human resources, talent acquisition, learning and development, internal communications, corporate responsibility, government affairs and technology services teams for 6000 employee, $1.7B revenue, public, cloud-based health information technology company
  • Differentiated experience includes: rebuilding and scaling legal and compliance, HR, and Talent Acquisition functions; management of a high-profile activist engagement, including CEO transition and strategic sales process; company-wide cultural leadership, including implementation of company's first diversity and inclusion program; leadership of two corporate restructuring and cost-reduction initiatives; leadership of multiple successful legislative and public policy efforts

Prior positions: SVP, General Counsel (2015-2017); VP Government and Regulatory Affairs (2012-2015)

Partner

McDermott Will and Emery, LLP
Boston, MA
01.2007 - 01.2012

Partner in the Litigation and Government Strategies practices of a leading, global law firm

  • Advised clients across a wide band of industries on legal, legislative and regulatory strategy, and advocated for their interests before Congress, the Executive Branch of the federal government, and various state legislative and executive bodies, nationwide.
  • Represented senior executives and corporations in high-stakes, complex white collar criminal investigations and prosecutions.

Chief of Staff / Deputy Counsel

Office of Governor Mitt Romney
Boston, MA
01.2005 - 01.2007

Roles over a two-year period of steadily increasing responsibility included:

  • Deputy Legal Counsel to Governor Mitt Romney
  • Assistant Chief of Staff to Governor Mitt Romney
  • Chief of Staff to Lt. Governor Kerry Healey

Litigation Associate

Goodwin Procter, LLP
Boston, MA
01.2001 - 01.2005

Education

J.D. -

Harvard Law School
2001

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

Middlebury College
1995

Skills

  • Executive counsel
  • SEC compliance
  • Corporate governance and board management
  • Commercial contracting
  • Activist investor engagement
  • Complex litigation
  • Risk avoidance and mitigation
  • Team building
  • Crisis leadership
  • Data privacy and information security
  • Government Affairs / Public policy
  • Functional automation and process optimization
  • Public speaking
  • Thought leadership

Personal

Proud father of one teenaged daughter; endurance sports enthusiast; two-time Ironman triathlete; two-time cancer survivor

Timeline

General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Guild
04.2023 - Current

SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Sprinklr, Inc.
09.2019 - 03.2023

SVP, Chief Legal And Administrative Officer

athenahealth, Inc.
01.2012 - 06.2019

Partner

McDermott Will and Emery, LLP
01.2007 - 01.2012

Chief of Staff / Deputy Counsel

Office of Governor Mitt Romney
01.2005 - 01.2007

Litigation Associate

Goodwin Procter, LLP
01.2001 - 01.2005

J.D. -

Harvard Law School

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

Middlebury College
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