Julian L. Zegelman Appointed New General Counsel for MTI
Posted on June 7, 2016
Metamaterial Technologies Inc. (MTI), announced today, June 7th, that Mr. Zegelman is joining MTI as its new General Counsel. Mr. Zegelman has over 15 years of experience in corporate law, legal, fundraising, and intellectual property matters and venture capital financing. Prior to MTI, Mr. Zegelman was a co-founder and General Counsel of Rolith, Inc., where he focused on fundraising, corporate development, and legal affairs.
In recognition of his professional accomplishments, Mr. Zegelman was awarded the prestigious SuperLawyers® award in California where it was only awarded to top 2.5% of the California bar members, multiple years in a row. He received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from University of California San Diego and his J.D. from University of Minnesota.
“Julian’s experience in California and globally, in a variety of legal aspects with both privately owned and publicly listed companies will be a valuable addition to MTI Group”, says George Palikaras, Founder and CEO of MTI.
Mr. Zegelman will be responsible for managing worldwide corporate legal affairs of the MTI group and working with the MTI board of directors on legal, fundraising strategy, and intellectual property matters.
“As a General Counsel at a dynamically growing international tech company, I’m going to be wearing a number of hats across legal, finance and IP teams,” says Zegelman “I am really excited about joining MTI, a leader in building products based on advanced material science. MTI has an impressive board and executive team and I am looking forward to adding my skillset to the group.”
Mr. Zegelman is the Founding Partner at Velton Zegelman PC, a boutique corporate law firm serving the technology sector with offices in San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA and Moscow, Russia.