Kevin Christopher, JD/MBA, is the founder and principal of Rockridge®, and is widely recognized for his work at the nexus of innovation + impact in venture ecosystems. Kevin’s daily work includes helping promising startups raise funds and secure intellectual property protection, providing due diligence to investors, acting as outside corporate counsel to impactful firms, and litigating complex patent and trademark suits. Kevin uniquely offers experiences as an entrepreneur, operator, director, investor, and litigator to best counsel firms at all stages of their existence. Kevin Christopher is founder and principal of Rockridge Venture Law®, one of the only B Corp law firms in the U.S. and a Real Leaders Top 150 Impact Company. Kevin is also founder of Quantiscope PBC, an AI/ML company focused on making drugs faster, better, and safer. Outside of Quantiscope and Rockridge, Kevin is a board member for GAIL North America; legal advisor to the Yale Tsai CITY sustainability accelerator; and, working group member of the World Economic Forum and I am ALS. Kevin began his career in tech transfer offices of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), establishing R&D partnerships, managing patent portfolios, structuring industry research consortia, and licensing bioinformatics, biofuel, diagnostics, medical device, neural interface, synthetic biology, and therapeutics technologies. Committed to public service, he has served as County and State Commissioner in Tennessee, Americorps member with Habitat for Humanity, and foreign teacher in Wuhan, China.