Jon Layman
COO at AxonPrime
Miami, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Legal Officer
2025 - Current
Managing Director
2022 - 2024
Strategic and legal advisory services
Chief Legal Officer and Head of Operations
2024 - 2024
General Partner and General Counsel
2021 - 2022
Prime Movers Lab invests in startups reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture.
Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Director
2021 - 2022
Director
2021 - 2022
Focused Energy is a laser fusion startup dedicated to developing fusion as a means of generating clean alternative energy.
Raised $79,000,000.00 from VCP, Tony Florence and Prime Movers Lab.
Director
2021 - 2021
Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
Raised $332,550,000.00 from ArcelorMittal, Saba Capital Management, Counterpoint Global and Salient Partners.
Director
2021 - 2021
Vaxxinity is a biotechnology company that enables the innovation of synthetic peptide vaccines to prevent or treat infectious diseases.
Raised $9,250,000.00 from Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
Partner
2010 - 2021
At Hogan, I continued to work with technology and life sciences companies, entrepreneurs and investors but with the resources and expertise of a global platform. At Hogan, I offered my clients proven experience in key industries along with practice breadth and geographical reach to proactively protect their business interests and achieve their desired outcomes.
Hogan Lovells is a London-based multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
Partner
1996 - 2010
At Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR), I advised hundreds of technology and life sciences companies and entrepreneurs. I built relationships with founders with exciting ideas and helped them navigate from start up through raising capital to eventually getting liquidity through an IPO or acquisition. I also represented public companies on securities offerings, corporate governance and complex securities matters, and I represented private companies and venture capital and private equity firms on investments and other transactions
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati provides legal services for technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises.