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Phelan Riessen

Advisory Board Member
Joined NMR in

Phelan Riessen is the CEO of Digithrive, Inc. a San Diego based web developer company that provides web applications and solutions to startups and businesses. Phelan organizes the monthly Meetups RefreshSD, San Diego Web Designers, and assists with the Advanced WordPress user group. In addition he has helped bring Startup Weekend to San Diego as well as helped organize March Mingle, Tech Mingle, SD Tech Launch, BarCampSD, Cool As Ever Tech, WordcampSD, and SD Tech Week. In his spare time he runs SDTechScene.org, a calendar of San Diego tech events which include all the local tech groups and startups.

Alex Johnson

Advisory Board Member
Joined NMR in

Alex is the CEO of NurseRegistry.com and an attorney. After growing up in the heart of Silicon Valley, Alex has been a life long lover of all thing technological. Alex comes from an entrepreneurial background and has a passion for working with similarly driven individuals. As an advocate, Alex is a strong proponent of copyright reform and net neutrality. In his spare time, Alex enjoys preparing for the coming human-machine singularity, and will gleefully welcome our future mechanical overlords.

Shaun Spalding

Assistant Director
Joined NMR in

Shaun Spalding is an intellectual property and privacy attorney with an interest in digital entertainment transactions, data-sharing agreements, and licensing.

 

Shaun has represented a handful of the top-40 most watched and most subscribed to Youtube channels in the world. Shaun is also a professor at California Western School of Law teaching an Internet and Media Law clinical course. Outside of academia, over 10,000 working creators have enrolled in his online courses aimed at teaching legal basics to creatives. The LAGD: Legal Assistance for Game Developers video series which he developed, directed, and produced with New Media Rights has over 350,000 views and counting.

 

Before making contracts and online education his main hobbies, Shaun worked as a commercial video producer making brand-integrated videos for companies like SWISS Airlines, Sharp Television, the Motion Picture Association of America, and Henkel.

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