Bruce Jackson is an Associate General Counsel/strategic business advisor out of the office of the president with over 32 years of experience assisting public and privately held companies grow their businesses. Bruce’s career reflects a demonstrated track record in supporting successful large-scale transformation in domestic and global markets. He has been successful in helping customers in regulated industries meet their regulatory requirements when migrating to the cloud. He brings a broad range of skills including technical, leadership, business management, and creative thinking. He also brings deep privacy and security experience through his work with customers migration to the cloud.

Bruce Jackson supported the Global Sales, Marketing & Operations (GSMO) for the U.S.  In this role, he led the engagement of a $20 billion business and managed a team of more than (20) twenty professionals.  Currently, Bruce is the Associate General Counsel/Managing Director of Strategic Partnership out of the office of the president.

Bruce began his career at Microsoft in 2000 as corporate counsel for the Digital Media Division. Determined to play a pioneering role in digital media, Bruce accepted Microsoft’s offer to work for the top technology company while supporting and learning from a regulatory and technical development standpoint. He was one of the first attorneys coming out of the music industry where music was being distributed in a physical format to work with a company that supported a digital form of distribution that no one envisioned.

As the founding and managing partner of a successful entertainment law firm, he was responsible for all aspects of budgeting, planning, accounting, marketing, and client development. However, Bruce started his career as a tax attorney where he advised corporate clients.

Bruce is also a passionate proponent for diversity and Inclusion. He received numerous internal and external awards and honors including, but not limited to, an industry best practice award by the American Bar Association. He is a founding Member of Microsoft’s diversity committee. He also presented several times to the Financial Service Committee, Chaired by Congresswoman Maxine Waters, on diversity and inclusion.

Bruce received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Hofstra University and a JD and an LL.M in Taxation from Georgetown University law Center.