Rick Goldstein

Rick Goldstein serves as General Counsel at Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), which powers smarter treatments and healthier people.

Goldstein leads Medidata’s business-focused Legal team, which supports the company’s commercial relationships, protects the company’s intellectual property, advises on data privacy and protection regulations, identifies and mitigates enterprise risk, and guides Medidata through the cutting-edge legal issues attendant to creating transformative technology and data analysis products.

Prior to Medidata, Goldstein was a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a leading global law firm, where he represented some of the world’s best-known technology and pharmaceutical companies in antitrust, intellectual property, and other complex commercial litigation and investigations. Earlier in his career, Goldstein was Deputy General Counsel at Internet advertising pioneer DoubleClick Inc., and was a member of the commercial/legal team at Merck & Co., Inc. He received a JD from New York University School of Law, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. More than one million registered users across 1,700+ customers and partners access the world's most-used platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data.