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John Neufeld

General Counsel at OpenZeppelin

John Neufeld has been in the legal field since 2012. John began their career as an Agent for WCMG, where they ran their own business acting as an advisor to professional golfers in Shenzhen, China and then expanded to work with two professionals in North America. John then moved to Children's Legal & Educational Resource Centre (CLERC) in 2014, where they held the role of Legal Advisor. In 2017, they held the role of Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, as well as Artificial Intelligence Legal Annotation (M&A) at Kira Systems. In 2019, they joined OpenZeppelin as General Counsel, Head Operations and Legal, and Head of Legal, and also became a Charter Member at TechGC.

John Neufeld completed their education history with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the Smith School of Business at Queen's University in 2015. Prior to this, they completed an exchange semester at Esade. John also holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science from Seton Hall University and an Associate's Degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences from McLennan Community College.

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Timeline

  • General Counsel

    April, 2021 - present

  • Head Operations and Legal

    June, 2020

  • Head of Legal

    January, 2019

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