Doug is a Senior Partner and Global Head of the Founder Practice at Withers Bergman LLP, the premier private capital law. Doug is recognized nationally as one of the top lawyers in the Country for representing CEOs and founders as a personal general counsel and consigliere. In addition to advising founders personally, Doug has represented several startups as outside general counsel and has been General Counsel and a member of the Executive Teams of LinkedIn (where he was the company’s lawyer when it was founded and served as GC in 2007 and 2008) and Nauto, Inc. a big data/AI company funded by Greylock Partners and Softbank. Doug is also an active angel investor and has invested in several companies that have scaled including LinkedIn, Premise Data, Bloomreach, Motiv Power Systems and Cricket Health.