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David Dawson serves as Winstead’s Chairman and CEO. In his role, David works closely with Winstead’s board of directors and leadership teams to develop and implement strategies for delivering the highest quality service to clients. Based in Austin, Texas, David’s practice focuses on the development and financing of public private projects involving governmental entities at the local, state, and federal level. He has represented developers, governmental entities, underwriters, and investors in airport, toll road, convention center hotel, military housing, and built-to-suit GSA lease transactions. A graduate of the UT McCombs Business Honors Program, David began his professional career in investment banking with CS First Boston before attending UT Law School. He joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in 1994, practicing corporate and public finance law before moving to Winstead in 2003. David is a former executive committee member of KIPP Austin Public Schools, Inc., which is part of a national network of high performing charter schools serving underprivileged youth. Winstead PC is a national business law firm with more than 350 attorneys. The firm provides a full range of business legal services to some of the most recognized and respected companies across the country and throughout the world. Winstead has offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and The Woodlands, Texas, and Charlotte, North Carolina. For more information, visit: winstead.com.

Ron Miller is the Chairman of the Board of StartEngine. Ron facilitates financial ignition for innovative tech and media companies in order to help entrepreneurs achieve the American dream. Ron is a four-time Inc. 500/5000 Award recipient and an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year Award Finalist. He has visualized, founded, built and sold five companies through management buyouts, private equity firms, private investors and public markets. Ron founded the San Diego Chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) and is also a member of WPO/YPO where he has served on the executive committee. Ron is active in the LA Mayor’s Council on Technology and Innovation, the Advisory Council of USC Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and facilitating students at UCLA Anderson. He also sits on the board of West Coast Care and is active in helping homeless individuals get off the street.

Shawn Lehocky is a CEO at LEGAL OPS LLC and Chief Strategy Officer at Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano LLP and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has worked as Operations Manager at Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano LLP, Intern at Omnyx, and Legal Assistant at Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano LLP. Shawn attended Freedom Area between 2004 and 2008, Westminster College between 2008 and 2011, and Drexel University between 2014 and 2017.