

Before that, I was Google’s deputy general counsel and legal department VP.

I joined Dropbox in June 2011 as general counsel to help build the next great technology company.

Of all the great restaurants here, you’re most likely to find me at Shalimar. What’s your favorite restaurant in San Francisco? The cheesesteak with eggs and bacon from Jimmy’s Sunrise Truck! What was your favorite Grease Truck order? I was also a preceptor in McCormick Hall for three years. I knew it was a top-notch school with great students. I had a great experience. My older brother had a good experience there and I wanted a big school. Why did you choose School of Engineering? You need to know when to take risks and when to make assumptions.

You have to take the problem, break it down, and decide what to focus on. I learned how to be nimble and how to look at the big picture and solve problems.Įngineers learn that they can’t do everything and arrive at theoretical perfection. I learned to think critically about anything. My engineering education really prepared me for just about anything. I learned there were not enough lawyers with technical backgrounds and not enough engineers who understood legal issues.ĭid your engineering degree prepare you for law school? When we studied asbestos, we read legal cases. We studied things like the 1984 Bhopal, India gas leak and the effects of the use of asbestos. I’d also enjoyed a course on the safety and ethics of engineering. I was a science/math junkie, so it was a big leap for me to go to law school at New York University, but I wanted to explore the other side of my brain. I realized by senior year that I didn’t want to be a practicing engineer. You were a Chemical and Biochemical Engineering major at the School of Engineering. Ramsey Homsany, ENG’97 is general counsel of Dropbox, Inc., the San Francisco-based file synching, sharing, and hosting service. He’s active on social media (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn) and is doing his best to get the Judiciary and the Bar on board.“My engineering education prepared me for just about anything.” Shirish Gupta is an award-winning mediator and arbitrator with JAMS. The number of followers was accurate on the date I added them to the list. If you know of other active in-house posters, please let me know and I’ll add them. Amazingly, Michelle Sherman (Farmers) and Chintan Amin (Bayer) were very active on social media before they went in-house and haven’t slowed down. General retweets in 2014/Personal in 2013Ĭhief Trademark & Trademark-related postsĭirector all of these folks are at social networking companies.
