Mr. Semel brings over 25 years of legal experience to Tele Atlas. His most recent corporate legal position was as legal transition executive at IBM and immediately prior to that he served as Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel to Ascential Software Corporation, a public software company that was sold to IBM in 2005. Before that, he served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to NaviSite, Inc., a public web hosting company. He has also served as general counsel for a number of other public and private companies. Mr. Semel has extensive experience as an international Chief Legal Officer and in the areas of intellectual property, corporate governance, securities, technology mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, technology licensing, patent strategy, regulatory and other corporate compliance matters. |