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Zachary French Verified Account

Consultant at Serentio
  • Atlanta, Georgia , USA
  • About Zachary


    I am an experienced commercial counsel in the SaaS software industry and currently serve as General Counsel for disruptive startup. Previously I lead a team responsible for over 200 sales representatives worldwide. I have renegotiated master agreements and DPAs with the largest technology companies in the world. I am well versed in data privacy and security. I use education, sales and strategy to help operationalize legal departments. Different tactics include: evaluating and onboarding new s... Read more

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    Professional Experience


    Serentio LLC

    General Counsel August 2022 - Present

    Startup providing employer subsidized vacation rentals for the modern-day digital nomad

    Drafting of legal contracts including privacy, commercial terms, and terms of use within regulatory environment for workplace benefits and property rentals

    Lead on all contract negotiations

     


    UserTesting

    Lead Commercial Counsel January 2020 - February 2022

    Responsible for coordinating all teams necessary for procurement, regulatory compliance, and commercial transactions to adjust risk profile appropriately for IPO in October 2021
    Negotiated and drafted services, partnership, product, and other contracts with SMBs to F100, including complex deals with the largest companies in the world where custom contracts were necessary across teams in the US, Europe and Asia 
    Analyzed and implemented a technology stack to support operations for the legal team as it grew 400%
    Lead effort for safe harbor certification (coordinating with marketing, product, engineering and leadership to facilitate necessary changes in product and redrafting of legal terms to be compliant) to allow our product to be used in more expansive business use cases
    Built training module for every team who interacts with legal to help empower them to understand the best way to work together to optimize resource allocation

    Education


    Atlanta's John Marshall Law School

    Juris DoctorGraduated in 2012


    Florida State University

    BS, Applied EconomicsGraduated in 2009