Overview

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Joe FitzGerald serves as VP, Legal for Pure Storage and is responsible for overseeing and managing legal matters for Pure. With over 20 years of high technology related legal experience, Joe joins Pure after almost 12 years at Symantec (via the VERITAS Software acquisition), where he served as Senior Vice President, Legal & Public Affairs. During his time at Symantec, Joe successfully built a world-class IP program, growing Symantec’s patent portfolio from a literal handful of patents to almost 2000 today.

In addition to active involvement in every major strategic transaction, Joe managed the technology licensing, product support, litigation, IP, and brand protection legal teams as well as the Global Government Affairs team that works with governments around the world on cyber security and other regulatory issues. In addition, Joe handled the strategic antitrust and competition related legal issues for this Fortune 500 software company.

Prior to Symantec, Joe worked in-house at a number of Silicon Valley companies including New Focus, Sun Microsystems and Nikon Research Corporation of America. Prior to Nikon, Joe was in private practice at Graham and James in Los Angeles. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, and a JD from Catholic University of America.