About the SVAGC
SVAGC Activities
History and Organization of the SVAGC
Companies Represented in the SVAGC
Join the SVAGC
SVAGC Activities

The Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel provides a congenial setting for general counsel to meet professionally and socially.  Its primary activity is a series of monthly luncheons, each including an informal discussion period and MCLE-accredited presentation on a topic of particular interest to the SVAGC's membership.

The SVAGC also cooperates in special projects, such as a member benchmarking survey and an annual multi-track MCLE conference designed for general counsel, staff counsel and paraprofessionals from legal departments in the technology and life science sectors.


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History and Organization of the SVAGC

The SVAGC is rooted in a program that began over 20 years ago, when a handful of Silicon Valley general counsel arranged to lunch together each month to discuss issues of common interest.

Over the years, the group has grown to include over 100 chief legal officers from scores of publicly traded companies and multinational subsidiaries located throughout the Bay Area, spanning the technology and life science sectors: software, electronics, power technology, biotechnology, medical devices, health informatics, materials science, communications and networking infrastructure, e-commerce and Internet services.

In 2003, the SVAGC was formally organized as a California mutual benefit nonprofit corporation;  "membership" (the Board of Directors are the only statutory members) involves participation in SVAGC activities.  The SVAGC is a dues-supported group; its monthly luncheons are not sponsored by invited speakers or other organizations, and only members, speakers and invited guests may attend.


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Companies Represented in the SVAGC
Accenture
Actuate Corp.
Adobe Systems
Affymetrix, Inc.
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Align Technology, Inc.
Altera Corporation
Ampex Corporation
Apple, Inc.
Atheros Communications, Inc.
Autodesk, Inc.
Autonomy, Inc.
Avanade, Inc.
Bell Microproducts Inc.
Blue Coat Systems, Inc.
Broadcom
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Callidus Software Inc.
Catapult Advisors LLC
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Conceptus, Inc.
Cortina systems, Inc.
Covad Communications Group
Cupertino Electric, Inc.
DepoMed Inc.
eBay Inc.
Echelon Corporation
Electronics for Imaging
Endwave Corporation
Entelos, Inc.
Exar Corporation
Extreme Networks
Facebook, Inc.
FEI Company
Fry's Electronics, Inc.
Fujitsu America, Inc.
Fujitsu Microelectronics America
Gerson Bakar and Associates
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Glu Mobile Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Ikanos Communications, Inc.
Imperva, Inc.
Infineon Technologies North America Corp.
InterMune Inc.
Intuit, Inc.
JDS Uniphase Corporation
Juniper Networks, Inc.
KLA-Tencor Corporation
LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc.
LinkedIn Corporation
Liveops
Logitech, Inc.
Lucasfilm Ltd.
Magma Design Automation, Inc.
MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
MarketTools
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
mBlox Inc.
Micromuse, Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
MIPS Technologies
MIPS Technologies
Monolithic Power Systems Inc.
Monolithic Power Systems Inc.
Monster Cable Products, Inc.
Mozilla Corporation
National Semiconductor Corp.
NEC Electronics America, Inc.
Nektar Therapeutics
NeoPhotonics Corporation
Netflix Inc.
NetSuite Inc.
Network Equipment Technologies, Inc.
Novellus Systems Inc.
NVIDIA
O2 Micro
Oclaro, Inc.
OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
OXiGENE, Inc.
Palm, Inc.
Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
Pillar Data Systems
Plantronics, Inc.
PMC-Sierra, Inc.
Polycom, Inc.
Qualcomm Incorporated/SnapTrack, Inc.
QuinStreet, Inc.
Rambus, Inc.
Rich Relevance
RMI Corporation
Robert Half International, Inc.
Roche Palo Alto LLC
Rovi Corporation
Salesforce.com, Inc.
SanDisk Corporation
SAP Business Objects Division
Savi Technology
Silicon Graphics International Corp.
Silicon Image Inc.
SiRF Technology, Inc.
SMART Modular Technologies
Solar Semiconductor
Spirent Communications, Inc.
SVB Financial Group
Symantec Corp.
Symantec Corporation
Synopsys Inc.
TeaLeaf Technology, Inc.
Teknowledge Corp.
Telenav, Inc.
Telik, Inc.
The Cooper Companies, Inc.
THX, Ltd.
Tibco Software Inc.
TiVo
TrialPay, Inc.
Trident Microsystems, Inc.
Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
Virgin America
VMWare, Inc.
Yahoo! Inc.
Zoran Corp.

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Join the SVAGC

To begin participating in SVAGC activities, an individual should be chief in-house attorney for an exchange-traded public corporation, or a privately held company/wholly-owned subsidiary with $50+ Million in annual revenue.

Annual dues are $440 (prorated by quarter for new members who join mid-year).  These dues include all costs for members to attend monthly SVAGC luncheons.

If you are interested in joining the SVAGC and meet these criteria for membership, please fill out the form below, so that one of the current SVAGC officers can contact you.

 

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