Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Shawn Soderberg has served as our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary since January 2016. Ms. Soderberg leads Bloom’s legal, regulatory, and compliance activities. Ms. Soderberg has over 25 years of legal experience and over 20 years of general counsel experience. From December of 2013 to December of 2015, Ms. Soderberg served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Bio-Rad Laboratories, a publicly traded, global medical technology provider engaged in the development, manufacture and market of products and solutions for the life science and clinical diagnostic markets. From 2006 to 2013, Ms. Soderberg served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Aricent Group, a global technology company that provides design and software engineering services and products to application, infrastructure and service providers in the communications sector and adjacent verticals. From 2000 to 2006, Ms. Soderberg held the position of Managing Director and General Counsel for H&Q Asia Pacific, a private equity firm engaged in investments in buyouts, recapitalizations and control transactions in various industries throughout Asia. From 1996 to 2000, Ms. Soderberg served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Oak Technology, a publicly traded, global semiconductor solutions provider for the optical storage and the digital home entertainment market. Prior to joining Oak, from 1994 to 1996, she was Vice President and General Counsel for Microtec Research, Inc., a publicly traded, global enterprise software provider for embedded systems. Prior to Ms. Soderberg’s General Counsel experience, Ms. Soderberg practiced in a law firm environment in the areas of corporate and tax law. Ms. Soderberg holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Santa Clara, a J.D. from Seattle University and an L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.