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Board of Directors

LegalZoom’s Board of Directors includes executive leaders from some of the most successful e-commerce, technology, and media companies.

Susan Decker
Brian Liu
Kamran Pourzanjani
Alan Spoon
John Suh
Jason Trevisan
Susan Decker
Susan Decker

Susan Decker serves on the boards of directors of Intel Corporation, Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, Costco Wholesale Corporation, LegalZoom, and is a Trustee of Save the Children. During the 2009–2010 school year, Ms. Decker served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School. Prior to that, from June 2000 to April 2009, she held various executive management positions at Yahoo! Inc., a global Internet brand, including President (June 2007 to April 2009), Head of the Advertiser and Publisher Group (December 2006 to June 2007), and Chief Financial Officer (June 2000-June 2007). Before Yahoo!, Ms. Decker spent 14 years with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, most recently as Managing Director, Global Equity Research (1998-2000), and previously as an equity research analyst, covering publishing and advertising stocks from 1986–1998. In this capacity, she received recognition by Institutional Investor magazine as a top rated analyst for ten consecutive years.

She received the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst in 1989 and served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) for a four-year term, from 2000–2004. Ms. Decker served on the board of directors of Pixar Animation Studios from June 2004 to May 2006, until its sale to Disney, and on the board of The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) from March 2005 to May 2007.

Ms. Decker holds a B.S. from Tufts University, with a double major in computer science and economics, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Brian Liu
Brian Liu

Brian Liu, Co-Founder and Chairman of LegalZoom, was formerly a corporate attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell, a prominent "Wall Street" law firm based in New York. He has extensive experience in initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate law. In addition, Mr. Liu was formerly assistant Vice President - Legal with Oaktree Capital Management, LLC, a leading Los Angeles-based investment adviser with over $35 billion of assets under management. Mr. Liu graduated from U.C. Berkeley Phi Beta Kappa and with honors in Biochemistry. He received his Law Degree from UCLA School of Law.

Kamran Pourzanjani

Kamran Pourzanjani is the founder and CEO of Bestcovery.com. He is also co-founder and former CEO of PriceGrabber.com and was responsible for the company's operations, strategic direction and growth. His vision fostered a culture of success and achievement at PriceGrabber, making the company one of the leading online shopping comparison sites with over 24 million monthly unique users. Under Mr. Pourzanjani's leadership, PriceGrabber received the "Internet Company of the Year" award from the Southern California Software Council, and was recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the nation, according to both Inc. Magazine and the "Deloitte Technology Fast 500." In recognition of his achievements and company's performance Mr. Pourzanjani was named Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year" for the Business Services category.

Alan Spoon

Alan Spoon is a general partner with Polaris Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. Before joining Polaris in 2000, Mr. Spoon served for 18 years in a variety of roles with The Washington Post Company, including president, board member, and Chief Financial Officer. At The Post Company, Mr. Spoon was also responsible for early stage technology investments in cellular (Cellular One and digital PCS), distance learning and educational software, and digital media and e-commerce services. Prior to The Washington Post, He was an officer at The Boston Consulting Group.

In addition to serving on the LegalZoom board, Mr. Spoon also sits on the boards of a variety of other companies, including Art.com, Focus Financial Partners, HealthCentral.com, Paratek, and Phreesia. Current outside board seats include Danaher Corporation and IAC/InterActiveCorp. In his not-for-profit activities, Mr. Spoon is a vice chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents, a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Corporation, and The Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his S.B. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an S.M. at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, and a J.D., with honors, from Harvard Law School.

John Suh
John Suh

John Suh, CEO of LegalZoom, is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the Internet space. Most recently, he served as CEO of StudioDirect, the Internet division of $6B global supply chain leader, Li and Fung. Within 48 hours of Mr. Suh presenting to over 100 analysts, $250M was raised to assist StudioDirect in targeting the small business segment. As co-founder and CEO of Castling Group, he took a leading role in helping offline companies create their Internet divisions, launching category leaders such as jcrew.com, hifi.com, and giftcertificates.com. Mr. Suh received a B.A. in Organizational Behavior and Public Policy from Harvard College and received his MBA with high distinction at Harvard Business School, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar.

Jason Trevisan

Jason is a Principal with Polaris Venture Partners focusing on growth equity investments and buyouts in Internet, technology and healthcare. Before joining Polaris in 2003 Jason held various management roles at aQuantive (acquired by Microsoft) overseeing client relationships in industries including pharmaceuticals, media/entertainment, financial services and consumer products. Prior to aQuantive, Jason was a consultant with Bain & Company where his clients included private equity firms and Fortune 500 companies in technology, media and consumer products.

In addition to serving on Legalzoom’s board, Jason is also a Director at ShoeDazzle, Life Line Screening, PartsSource and Snappcloud.  Jason received his M.B.A. with Distinction from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was recognized as an Edward Tuck Scholar. He holds an A.B., cum laude, in English from Duke University.