Juliana Neelbauer is the outside general counsel and intellectual property licensing and protection, cyber security, data protection, securities law, venture-capital finance, and technology commercialization attorney for product-driven organizations with U.S. and international interests. Within the firm, she is the Lead Partner of the Intellectual Property practice, overseeing two patent attorneys of counsel, a senior trademark prosecution attorney of counsel, and providing intellectual property strategy for product- or brand-related disputes to the firm’s commercial litigation team. She is the senior partner for venture capital financing, including a lead of negotiations and due diligence, and her counsel is sought for various venture-related or novel securities law issues. She is a senior partner for the firm’s cybersecurity and data protection and privacy compliance practices. Juliana’s clients include commercial entities, non-profit charities, trade organizations, and high-net-worth individuals and families. Example industries served are the B2B and B2G commercial technology and consumer tech (including digital asset, NFT, and blockchain-powered products and business models), telecommunications, fintech, investment fund, additive manufacturing, medical device and pharmaceuticals, health care, supply chain, fine art, entertainment and media, eSports, government contracting, charities and foundations, as well as political action/trade organizations. Prior to joining DEF, Juliana’s practice was centered in the DC-metro area and she also served as the chief operating officer of Ad Hoc LLC, a fast-growth, federal prime contracting company that builds custom web portals to deliver government services more efficiently to millions of Americans by using Agile software development and other modern web development methods. Juliana oversaw the scaling of Ad Hoc from a 9-person small business to a 90-employee mid-market prime contractor with a 10x increase in revenues within a 14-month period. She spent more than a decade as a leader and venture-fundraising events producer and host within the DC and Baltimore tech communities before practicing law. She began her practice of law after a career as a software product manager, software operations leader, and consultant for fast-growth companies, and as a successful business owner. In academia, Juliana is a consistent business law and intellectual property lecturer for the entrepreneurship courses offered at the University of Maryland School of Business in its Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, and she is a mentor for the Mtech Program at the University of Maryland James Clark School of Engineering. Juliana is an annual law lecturer for negotiations courses at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland School of Communications. She has been an adjunct professor of the Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center of the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. Since 2014, she has organized a legal clinic program for “hacker” participants of the University of Maryland’s Bitcamp, Georgia Tech’s HackGT, and U. Maryland’s all-female Technica hackathon events. Juliana served for half of a decade as the Attorney Advisor to the executive board and entrepreneurs of the Startup Shell incubator on the University of Maryland campus.