Michael Moradzadeh

Michael is a retired intellectual property and public policy attorney. A graduate of Stanford University and UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall, Michael was most recently employed at Intel Corporation as a senior executive, with a range of responsibilities from counsel for Internet and Microsoft-related matters, to electronic privacy, to leading an industry coalition on digital content protection. He served as general counsel for the large desktop products group and as Director of Home Architecture. Prior to Intel, he served as a senior attorney at Cetus (later Chiron) Corporation in Emeryville, Ca, focusing on licensing and protecting inventions in the field of biotechnology. Since retirement in 2000, Michael and his wife Noëlle Leca have focused their energy on shared interests, including environmental organizations, public broadcasting (Noelle served as chair of NCPB/KQED in 2009), education, and politics. Michael has been very active is sailing, racing five times across the Pacific to Hawaii and serving as the head of several yachting organizations.