Full Name
David Lancelot
Job Title
CLO & EVP Advocacy
Company
LawVu
Speaker Bio
David has 20+ years’ experience building, leading and optimizing best-in-class international in-house legal functions. David is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida College of Law where he teaches International In-House Legal Leadership.
Before joining LawVu, David spent 10 years building and leading the eBay Classifieds Group Legal Team; rising to VP, Global Head of Legal and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. eBay Classifieds Group had over $1bil revenue and operated market leading online classifieds businesses in 11+ jurisdictions globally, head-quartered in Amsterdam. David and his team of 25 professionals successfully facilitated the $9.2bil sale of the eBay Classifieds business in 2021.
David passed the bar in Florida before heading to London where his first role was General Counsel of a Dotcom online payments/encryption start-up. He trained as a solicitor at Baker & McKenzie in the IT & IP Department and was then General Counsel of QVC UK for almost 5 years. He then worked at both Discovery Networks Europe and Amazon UK before moving to California and working for eBay.
David is an alumnus of the University of Florida (both undergrad and College of Law) where he participated in the exchange program with the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He is a member of the FL, NY and CA Bar and is an English Solicitor. He also holds an LLM from the University of London in Communications and Technology Law.
David is based in Los Gatos, California and Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.
Before joining LawVu, David spent 10 years building and leading the eBay Classifieds Group Legal Team; rising to VP, Global Head of Legal and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. eBay Classifieds Group had over $1bil revenue and operated market leading online classifieds businesses in 11+ jurisdictions globally, head-quartered in Amsterdam. David and his team of 25 professionals successfully facilitated the $9.2bil sale of the eBay Classifieds business in 2021.
David passed the bar in Florida before heading to London where his first role was General Counsel of a Dotcom online payments/encryption start-up. He trained as a solicitor at Baker & McKenzie in the IT & IP Department and was then General Counsel of QVC UK for almost 5 years. He then worked at both Discovery Networks Europe and Amazon UK before moving to California and working for eBay.
David is an alumnus of the University of Florida (both undergrad and College of Law) where he participated in the exchange program with the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He is a member of the FL, NY and CA Bar and is an English Solicitor. He also holds an LLM from the University of London in Communications and Technology Law.
David is based in Los Gatos, California and Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.
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