Bert Sugayan

About Bert Sugayan

Accomplished business executive and lawyer with extensive experience in the technology, media and professional service industries. At Free Vector Advisors, we assist our clients on a wide variety of business and legal matters, including business formation, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic business planning and advisory services. We also act as outside general counsel for many of our clients, priding ourselves on a pragmatic approach to resolving legal and business issues utilizing fixed fee, retainer-based and other value billing arrangements that provide peace of mind and budgeting certainty to our clients. My past experience includes senior executive management positions in strategy and business development with leading media and technology companies, including Corbis, Getty Images, and ARIS Corporation. As Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Corbis, I had global responsibility for that company\'s mobile, film, consumer and rights services businesses, and had similar responsibilities as VP of Right Services at Getty Images. I also served as President of Oxford Computer Group (North America), assisting with the launch of that company\'s North American operations and developing an education initiative with Microsoft that led to Oxford being named Microsoft Partner of the Year in 2008. In addition to my executive management experience, I also served as General Counsel for both Corbis and ARIS Corporation, responsible for the legal aspects of those companies\' merger and acquisition strategies, and ARIS\'s successful IPO in 1997. I have worked an attorney with law firms both in the U.S. and abroad, primarily in the realms of mergers and acquisitions, licensing, and commercial transactions.

Experience

1. Principal

   Free Vector Advisors

   Mar 2009 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Our clients are typically U.S-based, growth-oriented companies, entrepreneurs and start-ups at an “inflection point” in their business.We create compelling business and financial narratives, develop the tools and resources needed for a company to create long-term value, and help to identify and execute exit strategies.

Education

• Notre Dame Law School

  JD, Law

  1983 — 1986

• New York University School of Law

  LLM, Corporate Law

  1988 — 1989

• University of Michigan

  BA, Economics and English

  1979 — 1983