Lead and mentor a small operations team to support scientific programs. Drive project planning, risk management, and cross-program coordination. Build scalable operational and financial systems, oversee contracts and vendor relationships, forecast resources, and strengthen execution discipline. Provide people leadership, coaching, and operational best practices in an onsite Alameda, CA research environment.

Lead Convergent's enterprise legal function: set legal and IP strategy, manage a growing legal team and outside counsel, ensure 501(c)(3) and cross-border compliance, support complex transactions (licensing, spinouts, government-funded R&D), build scalable legal systems and playbooks, and advise executive leadership on risk and governance.

Manage financial operations for Convergent and its FROs, overseeing monthly close, reconciliations, treasury, AR/AP, payroll, grant financial oversight and reporting, audit readiness including 990s, and improvements to systems, controls, and SOPs while translating finance to non-finance stakeholders.