Gwyn Murray
Matau Legal Group
Founder and Principal
San Francisco Bay Area
Gwyn Firth Murray is founder and principal of the Matau Legal Group, which offers a broad range of commercial, licensing, and other legal services to both start-up and established companies in the high tech and biotech industries (see
www.mataulegal.com). Ms. Murray also provides expert witness and litigation support services in the area of free and open source software licensing (FLOSS, FOSS, or OSS). She also was co-founder of Open Bar, Inc., a not-for-profit organization focused on legal rights and responsibilities in the world of open source software.
Gwyn has spent over twenty years working as inside and outside counsel to computer hardware, computer software and pharmaceutical companies, including Apple Computer, SGI, and Alza Corporation. Gwyn was the first lawyer to join VA Linux Systems, Inc. (now “Geeknet”) as internal counsel, and she served as Vice President, Legal Services for VA during its first year as a public company. After leaving VA, she went on to become Vice President and General Counsel of Kanisa Inc., a privately-held software company based in Cupertino, California, before undertaking her own law practice.