Title: 1) Independent Board Director; 2) Associate General Counsel
Company: 1) Scrum Alliance, Inc.; 2) Tempus AI, Inc..
Location: Douglaston, New York, United States
Jennifer R. Davis, Esq., Independent Board Director at Scrum Alliance, Inc. and Associate General Counsel at Tempus AI, Inc., has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Executives for dedication, achievements and leadership in Business.
Ms. Davis is lauded for her expertise in business and law, holding several significant roles within her field. As an attorney with a background in engineering, she focuses her work on intellectual property, corporate transactions and licensing, representing companies in this capacity since 2009. Leveraging her engineering background, Ms. Davis’s expertise has made her widely recognized within the industry.
Further to her work in this capacity, Ms. Davis has served as an associate general counsel at a publicly traded technology company leading the adoption of AI to advance precision medicine since 2021, where she has been instrumental in ensuring its needs are met. As such, Ms. Davis collaborates with technology and business stakeholders to protect and advance innovation, develop and execute business strategies and policies, and provide counsel regarding intellectual property and complex transactions.
Moreover, Ms. Davis has served as an independent board director at Scrum Alliance, Inc. since 2024, which is lauded as a foremost provider of scrum and agile credentials. She serves as the board secretary and leads governance as chair of the Nominating Committee.
Ms. Davis is well-versed in all areas of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and open-source assets. Her responsibilities extend to ensuring the seamless integration of these assets into products, infrastructures, policies, transactions, licensing, accreditation, employment and procurement processes. Ms. Davis also works closely with various business leaders to mitigate risks, safeguard products and services, and manage the development of associated elements.
Ms. Davis’s earlier success included serving as counsel for IP and Innovation at Spotify from 2019 to 2021. In this role, she contributed to the protection and strategic management of the company’s IP portfolio during a period of significant growth in digital media. Before this, Ms. Davis was an attorney at International Business Machines (IBM) Inc. between 2008 and 2019, where she played a pivotal role in managing complex IP issues for one of the world’s leading technology companies.
Ms. Davis’s academic background began with a Bachelor of Engineering in computer engineering at the University of Delaware in Newark in 2005. She then received a Doctor of Jurisprudence from New York Law School in New York City in 2009. Ms. Davis is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a notary public certified by the New York County Clerk, holds a broker’s license issued by the New York Department of Corporations, and has a credential as a trained mentor through Mentor Collective.
During her undergraduate studies, Ms. Davis garnered experience through various internships and externships, including at Mohau Counselling Centre in South Africa and the Ministry of Health in Barbados in 2003 and 2005, respectively. In law, she completed a judicial internship for the Honorable Marcy S. Friedman at the New York State Supreme Court and a second judicial internship in the commercial division under the Honorable Richard B. Lowe III at the New York State Supreme Court, both in 2007. Moreover, Ms. Davis completed an internship with Ward & Olivo, Attorneys at Law, in 2009.
Ms. Davis’s professional affiliations include membership in Chief, the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Throughout her career, she has also demonstrated exceptional leadership and dedication to service through her involvement with numerous other organizations, including as a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated since 2002.
Civically engaged, Ms. Davis most notably served as a board director for Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition New York (AFFCNY) from 2016 to 2024, where she was pivotal in guiding the organization through financial challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping it emerge successfully from this difficult period. During her tenure as a board director at AFFCNY, she held the positions of treasurer, secretary, finance chair and governance chair. Additionally, she was the general counsel for a nonprofit organization for more than a decade, between 2010 and 2021.
Ms. Davis’s accomplishments have been recognized with honors such as the Entrepreneurial Innovation Award from the University of Delaware in 2023. She attributes her achievements to the unwavering support of her family and the positive mindset instilled during her upbringing. Looking ahead, Ms. Davis strives to secure additional independent director opportunities and a role as chief legal counsel/general counsel, continuing her trajectory as a leader in business strategy, law and community service.
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