Cecilia Ziniti

Cecilia Ziniti is a lawyer for technology companies and startups. She has been in-house counsel at Amazon and Cruise and general counsel for two venture-backed companies. Ziniti specializes in advising on intellectual property, raising venture capital, privacy, financial product regulatory, and autonomous-vehicle regulation, among other issues. Earlier, she was a litigator at Morrison & Foerster, and she received a JD from UC Berkeley.

Experience

• Ziniti Law PC - Principal | General Counsel | Consultant | Operator 2021 –
• BloomTech
  • Board Advisor 2021 –
  • Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, & Corporate Secretary 2021 – 2021
• Chief - Member 2021 –
• Portfolia - Investor 2018 –
• TechGC - Founding Member 2017 –
• Cruise - Director & Lead Counsel, Product, Regulatory & IP Legal 2018 – 2019
• Anki - General Counsel & Corporate Secretary 2016 – 2018
• Amazon
  • Counsel, Alexa (Lead) 2014 – 2016
  • Counsel, Digital Products 2013 – 2014
• Morrison & Foerster LLP - Associate 2007 – 2013
• Yahoo! - Product Management and Legal 2003 – 2006

Education

• University of California, Berkeley - School of Law JD
• The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) General Course, economics 2000 – 2001
• Georgetown University BS International Economics 2002