David W. Tollen is an attorney and author, and he teaches technology contracts at the U.C. Berkeley Law School. He's the founder of Tech Contracts Academy, which provides training on negotiating and drafting IT contracts, for lawyers and businesspeople. He's also the founder of Sycamore Legal, P.C. in San Francisco, where he represents buyers and sellers in cloud computing and software licensing agreements and in and other technology and IP transactions.
Mr. Tollen graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and has degrees from Cambridge University in England and U.C. Berkeley. In addition to practicing law in the Silicon Valley, he has served as General Counsel of a publicly traded software company and as Vice President of Business Development for a profitable technology start-up.
On the side, Mr. Tollen writes novels that use fantasy to teach history and science, including the multiple-award-winner, The Jericho River.