Kevin Keller
Legal Counsel at Adept
Sunnyvale, California
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Vice President - General Counsel
2025 - Current
Leading the legal team at Forward Networks. Forward Networks is a pioneer in creating mathematically accurate network modeling with full path analysis and security compliance verification. Its digital twin technology makes challenges with network compliance and security a thing of the past. Named an Outperformer in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Network Validation for the third consecutive year, Forward Networks achieved the highest overall score for key features and business criteria among 15 competitors, cementing its position as an innovator and leader in the market.
Transforming networks to be more agile, reliable, and secure
Raised $112,149,993.00 from A.Capital Ventures, Omega Venture Partners, Section 32, MSD Partners, Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz and Threshold.
Angel Investor
2015
Early investor in a range of industries from food science and health to space stations and solar cells.
Co-Founder and Member of the Board
1998
Co-founded non-profit tech incubator operating at many of the top grad schools in the U.S.
A highly competitive leadership development program comprised of exceptional graduate students at top universities
Legal Counsel (Head of Legal)
2024 - 2025
Legal and operational support for the development and deployment of useful general intelligence agents powered by multi-modal AI models. Responsible for regulatory, intellectual property, privacy, commercial and operational support for development and go to market teams. Achievements include development of agreements for commercialization of AI powered agents as a service and launching a patent program to protect inventions fundamental to the operation of AI powered agentic systems.
Adept AI is a machine learning research and product lab that builds general artificial intelligence.
Raised $415,000,000.00 from General Catalyst, SV Angel, Frontiers Capital, Workday Ventures, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Addition, A.Capital Ventures, Atlassian Ventures and PSP Growth.
General Counsel
2022 - 2024
Led legal and compliance functions for Series C startup focused on travel, e-commerce and fintech. Managed litigation, employment, commercial and go to market support. Supported brand transition and related trademark filings and domain purchases. Completed 3 part Series C fundraising and secondary offering, oversaw multiple layoffs, supported sale of e-commerce business, advised board on privacy, security and employment matters.
Super.com is a saving app that empowers users to spend less, save more, and build credit.
Raised $200,200,000.00 from Harley Finkelstein, Allen Shim, Deborah Liu and Inovia Capital.
Head of Product Legal
2021 - 2022
Hired, developed and managed product counsel legal team supporting marketplace, ads, enterprise solution, hardware solutions and gig-working/shopper.
Instacartshopper is an online grocery platform.
Director & Associate General Counsel, Product
2019 - 2021
Led the legal team supporting Facebooks growth, connectivity and social impact. Lead counsel for cross-product integrations.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
AGC & Director of Legal - Devices & Services
2008 - 2019
Built Amazon's legal function to support hardware development and acquisition, including all Amazon consumer electronic products, Amazon Go and Amazon consumer robotics. Advised cross-company on patent licensing, operations,supply chain and contract and contracting process simplification.
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronic devices.
Attorney - OEM software licensing and Hardware/semiconductor development and manufacture
2005 - 2008
Led support for custom silicon development and manufacture for Xbox, Zune and other Microsoft products; led development and OEM licensing program for Microsoft IPTV.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Senior Technology Transactions Associate
2003 - 2005
IP/Commercial transactions for technology companies in all industries.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati provides legal services for technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises.