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Senior Counsel

Carol Kazmer

Phone: 781-396-0293
Email: ckazmer@outsidegc.com

Carol brings both significant legal experience and a pragmatic business perspective to her work at Outside GC. Carol was previously the general counsel of Avid Technology, Inc., a publicly-held company and the world leader in the development, marketing, sale and support of software and hardware products for digital media production, management and distribution. At Avid, Carol managed the company's legal interests, including in such areas as corporate governance, ethics, securities and regulatory compliance, equity issuance, M&A, strategic partnering, licensing, intellectual property protection, employment, and litigation. Prior to joining Avid, Carol served as in-house counsel at Marcam Corporation, a publicly-held enterprise resource planning software company. At Marcam, Carol provided legal counsel on such matters as third-party and strategic partnering agreements, software licenses, services contracts, real estate leases and litigation. Carol began her legal career at the San Francisco office of the national law firm Brown & Wood (now, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood), representing investment banking firms in debt and equity issuances. Before attending law school, Carol worked for several years as a business consultant in Jakarta, Indonesia, and also lived in Tokyo, Japan. Carol was graduated magna cum laude from Claremont McKenna College, and was awarded a juris doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, and a masters in international trade and finance from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Business Software Alliance, an anti-piracy and industry advocacy group. Carol is admitted to practice in both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of California.