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Teaching Assistant

A health & wellness company providing cannabis solutions—one precise dose at a time.

Experienced CLO to technology, e-commerce, health-tech, entertainment and digital media companies. Broad background spanning: Silicon Valley law firm practice; extensive start-up, IPO, M&A and commercial deal experience; global enterprise leadership; privacy, ethics and compliance officer roles; IP expertise; public affairs management; and executive team counseling. Bilstad currently leads legal, compliance and gov't affairs for dosist™, an award-winning cannabis health and wellness company, serving as executive leader to rapidly growing global organization and primary counsel to CEO, senior mgmt. and Board. Previously managed legal and bus. affairs at global sports entertainment pioneer, WWE (NYSE: WWE) during its unprecedented market growth period (2015-2018), and serving as the principal legal advisor to Chairman/CEO and mgmt. team. Bilstad also served as a strategic advisor to OTT indie film network, Fandor. Before 2015, Bilstad managed all legal matters and public affairs for Provide Commerce, an e-commerce market disruptor (formerly Nasdaq: PRVD) specializing in the direct-model delivery of perishables and other unique gifts through its brands ProFlowers®, RedEnvelope and Shari’s Berries®, among others. He assisted in the company's highly profitable growth from $90M in annual net sales to over $750M at peak, selling the company twice (to Liberty Media-'08 and FTD-'14). Previously, he managed corporate legal affairs for VUNet USA, the U.S. Internet group of Vivendi Universal (Euronext: VIV.PA), and for MP3.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: MPPP), a pioneering online music company that was acquired by Vivendi Universal in 2001. Prior to MP3.com, Bilstad was a business associate at the law firm of Cooley Godward. Bilstad holds a JD cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was the Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Tech. and winner of the Irving Oberlin Mem. Award writing prize. He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Duke, and studied at Oxford.