Neil Peretz

Experience

Head of Legal for WooCommerce 2022 - Present (almost 4 years)

• Run legal for WooCommerce, the world's most popular ecommerce platform, which powers 8.6% of all websites and 23% of the top 1M ecommerce sites. Particular focus on payments... more

Contract Wrangler

Founder, CEO and GC 2016 - 2021 (over 5 years)

ML-powered contract interpretation. Acquired by Conga/Apttus.

Better Finance

2013 - 2015 (about 2 years)

General Counsel for SmartBiz Loans and SmartPay Leasing 2013 - 2015 (about 2 years)

Product: Drafted ToS, privacy policies, and wide range of financial and consumer protection disclosures. Worked closely with product teams to ensure that flow and content... more

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Founder, Co-Founder of Office of Enforcement 2011 - 2013 (about 2 years)

• Hired by Richard Cordray to co-found Office of Enforcement for new federal agency setup to protect consumers in the financial markets, with supervisory jurisdiction over... more

Founder

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Contract Wrangler, Pocketscience, AnsrBall Technologies, Stanton

Employee

Better Finance, Energy Innovations, Brown Brothers Harriman, Aliya, Patricof & Co. Capital, U.S. Foreign Service, Libraria/Sertanty, Sawa Credit, Automattic

Advisor

Percolata, Sindeo, collegenode, Alterna Legal, Joint Us-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, Harmonic Financial Technology, RecordPartner

Attorney

US Securities and Exchange Commission, United States Department of Justice, Linden Trading/Asia Pulp & Paper

Education

About

Achievements

Government startup: One of founding attorneys in CFPB's Office of Enforcement. Co-authored Bureau's first substantive rule related to electronic funds transfers.

DOJ Trial Attorney: Represented (in court) and advised agencies such as GNMA and FCC in matters involving large sums of money and complicated financial scenarios.

Tech startups: Built mobile email company from scratch. Licensed hardware tech to major consumer electronics companies, setup and managed network operations and customer support, recruited and managed great hardware, software, DSP, and QA teams. Raised over $20 mil in venture capital. Built company to annual run rate of over $10 million per year with only 2% monthly churn. Setup JVs in Australia and UK and production in China and Japan. Took public.

Created new B2B SaaS category: Founder and CEO of ML-driven contract analysis and implementation system. Acquired by Conga/Apttus. Raised venture funding, hired 65+ team, lots of awards and accelerators.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Business Law Attorney Business Development Business Strategy Business Operations Finance Corporate Finance Corporate Development Product Marketing General Management International Business Doing Business in China Europe Online Consumer Finance Mobile Payments Online Payments Finance

Locations

San Jose Palo Alto Taiwan Canada Vancouver Toronto Portland Seattle Milan

Neil Peretz

Founder@CFPB, @ContractWrangler, @pocketscience; GC @woocommerce, @sawa Credit , @Aliya, @smartbiz-loans ; Attorney @doj; COO/CFO @sertanty; Diplomat @china; i-banker.