Allen Y.

About Allen Y.

PROBLEM SOLVER AND STRATEGIC COUNSELOR as senior legal, management, and business professional with 20+ years major law firm (AmLaw 100), high-growth and public company (Fortune 100 / DJIA component), community, philanthropic, and public service experience. What I know best is consumer goods - especially in regulated environments - not just as a chief legal counsel and compliance officer but as a trusted strategic and business advisor and partner. I help create effective and efficient legal+(includes the adjacent areas of regulatory, compliance, risk, security, and trade, public, and government affairs) functions for companies that are scaling for growth.I measure professional success by seeing products in market, businesses, and homes - knowing I help put them there.And I measure personal success by reinvestment in the community - with a focus on education, arts, culture, and humanities and enabling access to the same - particularly for children from underserved communities. It’s what I know second best - non-profit governance, philanthropic giving, volunteering, community engagement, and advocacy.

Experience

1. Gorilla Mind

   Present

Education

• The University of Georgia

  Bachelor of Science (BS), magna cum laude with High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa

  1995 — 1999

• The University of Georgia

  Doctor of Law (JD), magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

  2000 — 2003