Bio Details

James J. MacDonald has served as our Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary since September 2018. Prior to Sana, Mr. MacDonald was Senior Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Juno from March 2014 to May 2018, where he was responsible for all worldwide intellectual property activities, including strategy, development, transactions, litigation and counseling. From March 2009 to March 2014, Mr. MacDonald held both legal and business roles at Tessera, Inc. (a subsidiary of Xperi Corporation) and its affiliates, a technology company, and most recently was Executive Vice President of Intellectual Property & Business Development, responsible for business development, licensing and litigation. Prior to Tessera, Mr. MacDonald held senior roles at BigBand Networks, a provider of platforms for broadband multimedia services (acquired by ARRIS Group), and Tumbleweed Communications, a secure internet communication solutions company (acquired by Axway), practiced law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC in Palo Alto, California, and was a research and development engineer at The Procter & Gamble Company. Mr. MacDonald obtained a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and a B.S. in chemical engineering from Stanford University.