John . Ritsick
Guild Education, Inc.
John Ritsick is Vice President-Legal, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Intellectual Property Office for Flex Ltd., a publicly-traded $24-billion multinational manufacturing and technology company. John's responsibilities for Flex include managing the company's IP portfolio, budget, and licensing program, overseeing IP training for the sales and design teams, negotiating key IP agreements, and counselling transaction teams for IP in their commercial and M&A deals. John is also lead counsel for the company's Strategic Partnerships group. Prior to re-joining Flex, John was an attorney at KO, a boutique law firm in Colorado specializing in corporate and technology transactional work, and before that John was a founding partner of Sage Law Group. John graduated cum laude from Colorado State University in 1992 with a B.A. in Political Science. He received an M.A. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1994 and a J.D. from Georgetown University, cum laude, in 1999. After clerking for the Honorable Justice Michael Bender on the Colorado Supreme Court, John was an associate at Cooley and later at Faegre Baker Daniels. He has been Corporate Counsel for Exclusive Resorts, LLC, a luxury private residence club headquartered in Denver, and Senior Corporate Counsel for Gates Corporation in Denver. John is an adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law, where he teaches classes on contracting drafting and negotiation. John's practice has focused on intellectual property strategy, portfolio management, and litigation; complex international commercial transactions, negotiations and dispute resolution; manufacturing and supply-chain related agreements; licensing arrangements, including software and SaaS-based agreements and patent and technology licenses; outsourcing and services agreements; and data security and privacy issues.
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