Allen Grogan
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| Affiliation: | ICANN | ||
| Country: | United States | ||
| Email: | allen.grogan [at] icann.org | ||
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Allen Grogan has served as Chief Contract Compliance Officer since October 2014, overseeing Contractual Compliance and Consumer Safeguards. Grogan served as ICANN's Chief Contracting Counsel from May 2013 until he assumed his current position.[1]
Career History
Mr. Grogan is an attorney and high technology executive with more than 30 years of experience working with software, internet and entertainment industry companies and entrepreneurs. He has served as a senior executive and general counsel at both public and private companies.
Mr. Grogan began his legal career in Los Angeles at Irell & Manella LLP, then joined Blanc Williams Johnston & Kronstadt, which subsequently merged with Arnold & Porter LLP.
After almost two decades as a partner heading the high technology transactional practice at Blanc Williams Johnston & Kronstadt, he left private practice to become VP Corporate Development and General Counsel at Viacore, Inc., a venture capital funded B2B supply chain solution company.
He then served as Senior VP and Chief Legal Officer for Jazz Semiconductor, now part of TowerJazz. During this period he also worked with several high technology startups and investment firms before joining ICANN.[2]
Publications
In 1984 Mr. Grogan co-founded The Computer and Internet Lawyer, the leading professional journal devoted to legal issues relating to the computer and online industries and served as its co-editor-in-chief for fifteen years. Mr. Grogan has also served on the editorial boards of The Cyberspace Lawyer and The Journal of Internet Law. He is the co-author and co-editor of the book Business and Legal Guide to Online-Internet Law and a former Vice-Chairman of the American Bar Association Computer Law Division of the Section of Science and Technology.[3]
Education
Mr. Grogan earned a J.D. and an M.A. in communications management from the University of Southern California. He earned his undergraduate degree at Oberlin College.