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In-House Counsel

Jun. 21, 2012

Connie Brenton

Chief of Staff/Head of Operations NetApp Inc. Sunnyvale



At the turn of the century, NetApp Inc. was growing by leaps and bounds, and the legal department was asked simply to keep pace.


After the fallout of the dot-com bust, however, NetApp found it needed to re-organize its legal department. In 2010, newly minted general counsel Matthew Fawcett made Brenton, the then-director of operations at Oracle Corp. and self-proclaimed "serial entrepreneur", his first hire.


Brenton was brought on...

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