Syntiant
Robert Saman is vice president and general counsel of Syntiant Corp. He brings to the company over 25 years of legal, corporate and international experience at top-tier global law firms and public, pre-IPO and private technology companies, including venture-backed enterprises. Mr. Saman has extensive experience in corporate and board governance; business development and international expansion; compliance and risk management; intellectual property; public/private M&A; securities laws; and equity and debt venture financings.
Mr. Saman also serves as a fractional general counsel of Levyx Inc., a high-performance, ultra-low latency big data processing software company. Previously, he served as the chief legal officer and secretary of sTec, a Nasdaq-listed company and pioneer of enterprise SSDs that was acquired by Western Digital in 2013. Prior to sTec, he held senior leadership roles within the legal departments of Gateway computers and Eclipsys Corporation, a publicly-traded provider of healthcare information technology solutions.
Mr. Saman began his legal career at a top Silicon Valley law firm (Cooley). Prior to law school, he had a complementary seven-year business career that included consultancy/auditing at Ernst & Young. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, and is an inactive Certified Public Accountant.