People

Frank Monestere has served as President and Chief Operating Officer of LegalZoom since 2002. Before joining LegalZoom, Mr. Monestere was a management consultant (2000-2002), and assisted clients in executing technology-focused business initiatives for such clients as Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Before that, he served in the U.S. Army as an Infantry Officer in the 82nd Airborne Division (1991–1995) and as a Special Forces Officer (1995–1998) with deployments to Bosnia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Mr. Monestere graduated in the top 10% of his class with a B.S. in International Relations from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he focused on operations strategy and management.

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.

Fred Krupica brings over 30 years of experience at several high-growth corporations, most recently at Altra Inc., a leading biofuels company. Prior to Altra, he was CFO for Fastclick Inc., (NASDAQ:FSTC) an internet advertising technology company, where he led the company's IPO and subsequent sale and merger to Valueclick Inc. (NASDAQ:VCLK). Fred's previous positions include CFO at WJ Communications (NASDAQ:WJCI), CFO for Magnetic Data Technologies, CFO and Chief Operating Officer for a private equity firm, and founder of a professional services firm. Krupica also served in various senior financial management positions at Atlantic Richfield, Pullman Inc. and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Krupica is a CPA and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Illinois and an MBA in finance from UCLA.

Mr. Shapiro, Co-Founder of LegalZoom, is one of the most recognized attorneys in the world. He is currently a partner of Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, LLP, a full-service law firm with approximately 120 attorneys (no relationship with LegalZoom). Mr. Shapiro has over 31 years of legal experience and has served as counsel in United States of America v. Samango, People v. Christian Brando and People v. O.J. Simpson. Mr. Shapiro is the author of "For the Defense" (Loyola Law Review, November 1996), "The Search For Justice: A Defense Attorney's Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case" (1996) and "When The Press Calls: A Lawyer's View" (California Litigation, Fall 1991).