Doug Kortrey is a former in-house attorney who has held various positions in privately held and publicly traded technology and communications companies and who specializes in the areas of commercial contracting, licensing (software, content and other intellectual property), telecommunications, law department management and intellectual property portfolio management. He has served as an advisor to and counseled start-up, growth and mature companies for more than 25 years providing legal and business advice to technology innovators on new product development and in negotiations of inbound services agreements, marketing and distribution agreements, and domestic and international outsourcing arrangements.
Doug most recently held the position of General Counsel, Head of Legal and Corporate Secretary at GetSwift, Inc., a US subsidiary of an innovative last mile delivery management software-as-a-service provider which trades publicly on the Australian Securities Exchange. Prior to that, at IPC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of secure, compliant communication solutions and software applications to the world’s leading financial service firms and global enterprises, he served for almost a decade in various capacities and was responsible for US and global legal operations. Doug also served as legal advisor to Video Lantern, LLC, a seed stage start-up that operated in the on-line video management space, and was responsible for reviewing technology and content licenses and the business plan for this one-stop asset management shop that provided video management, operations support, and advertising sales to assist small and mid-sized content providers with multiplatform syndication. Prior to that, Doug served as VP and Assistant General Counsel to RCN Corporation, a provider of cable, high-speed internet and phone service to densely populated US cities, where he routinely advised the product management team on products to add to triple-play core product offering and drafted and negotiated programming and other agreements for content distribution over cable and internet outlets. Doug spent the first 7 years of his legal career in a judicial clerkship and in private practice.
Doug is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey and holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Rutgers University and a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law.
