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Roberta Reiff Katz
Roberta Reiff Katz is Associate Vice President for Strategic Planning at
Stanford University, working in the Office of the President. In that capacity,
she assists with the development and implementation of a variety of new
University-wide initiatives.
She previously was one of the founders and the CEO of Flywheel Communications,
Inc., a company specializing in the use of technology to manage rights-related
transactions and dispute resolutions. Prior to joining Flywheel Communications,
Inc., Ms. Katz was the President and CEO of the Technology Network (TechNet), a
national bipartisan political network of technology industry executives. Ms.
Katz had previously served for four years as the Senior Vice President,
Secretary and General Counsel of Netscape Communications Corporation. Prior to
her post at Netscape, she was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of
McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. (subsequently AT&T Wireless) and its
subsidiary, LIN Broadcasting Corporation. Ms. Katz was also a lawyer in private
practice, specializing in corporate law. She was a partner with the firm of
Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, resident in the firm's Seattle office.
Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Katz was a cultural anthropologist. She holds a
Ph.D. from Columbia University, where she specialized in issues of social and
cultural change. She is the co-author of Justice Matters: Rescuing the Legal
System for the 21st Century (1997), which discusses the effects of the
Information Age on the American civil justice system.
Ms. Katz has been named one of "The Fifty Most Influential Women Lawyers in
America" by the National Law Journal and one of the "100 Most Influential
Lawyers in California" by the Daily Journal, and has been a frequent public
speaker on Internet law and policy issues, legal system issues, social change
issues, and technology-workplace issues.
Ms. Katz received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University, law degree
from University of Washington Law School, and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
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