Jeremy Westin

General Counsel and Chief Business Officer @ Poppin

About

I am a creative and driven c-suite operator, dealmaker and general counsel. I have significant hands-on experience leading commercial teams, driving strategic transactions and managing growth initiatives for seed, growth-stage and public companies. I have a passion for brand building and have experience growing successful consumer and B2B businesses across media, e-commerce and consumer products. As an experienced dealmaker and commercially-minded general counsel, I've navigated the best and worst of times to help guide my companies, employees and investors to successful outcomes. I lead teams with humor, empathy and mutual accountability to ensure that organizations are high-performing, resilient and motivated. I've managed successful exits, scaled cross-functional excellence, built legal functions, and served as a trusted advisor and partner to founders and board members.

Country

City

United States

Industry

Retail

Skill

Corporate Law, Technology Transactions, Corporate Venture Capital, Organizational Leadership, C Suite, General Corporate Counsel, Strategic Partnerships, Management, Team Leadership, Organizational Design, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Corporate Transactional, Intellectual Property, Change Management, Business Strategy, Commercial Contracts, Risk Management, Contract Negotiation, Commercial Law, Business-to-Business (B2B)

Experience

General Counsel and Chief Business Officer

Poppin

2013-1 - Present · 13 yrs 9 mos

New York / Los Angeles

Founding member of leadership team for omni-channel direct commerce business, where I wore multiple hats in a fluid growth environment to build a disruptive business that achieved a $100M annual run rate. I established and managed the legal affairs function, ran corporate development over multiple financings, and built a successful reseller business in retail and e-commerce. I led a successful M&A process resulting in the sale of the company to become part of Kimball International (NASDAQ: HNI).

Founding Member

The L Suite (TechGC)

2016-11 - Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

Los Angeles, California, United States

TechGC is an independent, invitation-only, peer community where General Counsels share knowledge and best practices.

Advisor

Panelfly

2013-6 - 2016-7 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Guided mobile app company on product development, business development and corporate initiatives as it landed projects with franchise IP content creators, including NBC Universal, DC Comics, William Shatner and Stan Lee. I led Panelfly's participation and panel at San Diego Comic-Con to launch the company's partnership with William Shatner.

EVP & GM - Digital Distribution; Head of Business and Legal Affairs

Playboy

2002-2 - 2012-12 · 10 yrs 11 mos

New York and Los Angeles

I served in a variety of legal and deal-making leadership roles to help one of the world's most iconic brands make the leap from print to digital. I led the brand's business and legal affairs, structured and closed the digital spin-off to create profitable digital businesses in subscriptions and e-commerce, and launched the brand's social media presence. Following the go-private of Playboy Enterprises in 2011, I led a transformational deal to divest and spin-off the company's media operations to a third party and then managed a successful transition.

Attorney - Commercial, Corporate and Intellectual Property

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison

1998-8 - 2002-1 · 3 yrs 6 mos

New York, New York, United States

I advised media and technology clients on transactions and day-to-day corporate and commercial matters for the then-leading technology law firm. I structured and negotiated complex business relationships relating to financings, m&a, partnerships and marketing. I helped companies develop, manage and enforce their intellectual property. Other law firm experience: Bingham McCutchen LLP, Boston MA Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston MA