David Sally

Legal Director @Equinix

Redwood City, CA, US

Manage a team of attorneys and contract managers in support of Equinix’s Sales organization. Independently negotiate and draft complex commercial agreements for colocation and related services, including Equinix’s largest initial customer deployment. Led various initiatives aimed at improved contracting templates and processes, by streamlining and improving standard contract templates and contracts playbook; leading a global team of attorneys to substantially improve library of contract fallback clauses and FAQs; conduct extensive contracts training for attorneys, contract managers and non-legal personnel; and helped implement new contract management system.Serve as primary legal counsel for Equinix’s Professional Services organization. Negotiate outbound and inbound professional services agreements, teaming agreements and statements of work. Develop new contract templates and implement new contracting policies in support of ProServe organization.Operate as privacy SME in North America in support of Equinix’s global privacy initiatives. Negotiate data security and related privacy agreements with global customers; develop and implement new privacy policies and practices in response to GDPR and other regulatory developments; creating privacy-related contract templates, customer-facing data protection and security statements and industry-specific data protection schedules.Provide support to Global Operations on various contract initiatives. Developing global operations playbook with standardized contract clauses in response to operational and security requests. Revise Equinix\'s data center operational policies and benchmarked same to align to industry standards.

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts, Legal Studies

California Western School of Law

Juris Doctorate