Gloria Qiao

Lead legal, compliance, HR and strategic partnership to build the world's first software defined, fully electrical RV to change how people live and travel.

Lead legal, strategic partnerships, negotiating key deals and expanding our global supply chain to enable the future of AI compute infrastructure. Implement compliance and risk management measures such as employment handbook and guidelines, D&O insurance, stock option compliance, general corporate compliance, and overall best practices across the company. Lead IP strategy such as patent filing, trademark filing and strategy, trademark infringement prevention. Draft, negotiate and close on key partnerships deals with enterprise customers. Design and implement best in class procurement and legal processes and systems empowering the team for higher efficiency and better tracking of KPIs. Advise the C suite on key strategic decisions relating to fund raising, board relationship management, company moral and culture, product and go to market strategy.

We are using machine learning to revolutionize how in house legal teams at hyper growth companies collaborate with cross functional teams, procurement, sales, HR, to name a few.If cars can drive themselves, why are you stuck doing tedious manual work?

Built procurement, AP and payroll teams; led both hardware (sensors, compute and other vehicle parts) and software procurement (simulation, annotation, remote assistance, cloud, travel, ERP, PLM, CLM)

Head indirect procurement. Procure and source advanced technology, engineering services, contingent labor, Cloud computing, IT, charging infrastructure, benefits, marketing, design, real estate, travel, facilities, security, L&D and misc indirect categories for the next generation of autonomous vehicle : )

Head of Indirect Procurement, developing strategic partnerships, licensing advanced technology such as data annotation, simulation, mapping; procuring IT infrastructure hardware and software, engineering services and miscellaneous indirect commodities such as benefits, travel, facilities, marketing and more.

Helping the engineers to build the next big thing! Licensing of bleeding edge technology, purchasing of capex equipment for building and testing the next generation of EV.

Built the then most innovative, state of the art wearable device integrating PPG, ECG, GSR, Skin Temperature, accelerometer and bio-impedance; oversee FDA related issues around digital health; manage various suppliers from hardware, software to algorithm and contract manufactures to deliver prototypes under tight deadline and various limiting factors; business development, PR and event planning

• License IP and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software and hardware for the Silicon Engineering Group relating to advanced technology for SoC (System on a Chip), silicon and chip design. • Structure and negotiate complex licensing deals balancing engineering need and budget constraints; Model pricing and cost; Escalate to and brief SVPs, VPs and senior executives on commercial, technical and legal aspects of deals; Identify, develop, build and maintain strategic partner roadmap and relationships.

study of South America business environment and culture