Joe Hutcheson, General Counsel on a volunteer basis, has over 35 years of legal experience in corporate, M&A and investment transactions, new venture start-ups, enterprise licensing and joint venture arrangements. He also has worked in executive management and nonprofit positions. He has served as Deputy General Counsel, Americas, for Dassault Systèmes, a publicly traded, global software company based in France, as CEO of a cloud system start-up, as general counsel of a privately held software company, as principal at a corporate law firm in Boston and as a lending officer in New York City. He received his B.A degree in Economics from Williams College, during which time he managed paramedical projects in Latin America, his M.B.A. degree from New York University with a concentration in finance and his J.D. from Fordham University, where he was Managing Editor of the Fordham Law Review. He has advised and served on several corporate and nonprofit boards.