GENERAL COUNSEL,VIZIO
WHY: GC at TV maker’s roughly 20-person legal team, whose work is supported by outside
counsel across nearly a dozen law firms. Growth is happening quickly for Irvine-based Vizio due to company’s ballooning Platform+advertising business, among other matters.
IN THE NEWS: Vizio was recognized with the In-House Legal Team Award during the Business Journal’s General Counsel of the Year Awards in November 2021.
NOTABLE: Helped company navigate pandemic and still go public in 2021.
QUOTABLE: “Early on in the pandemic we had to face a decision on the company, whether we shut down or do we qualify as an essential business, and Vizio is an essential business based on many different criteria.”
