Matt Jacobs

Matthew Jacobs is a senior director with the legal group at Black Duck. Matt’s work includes managing licensing and contract negotiation and advising senior management on day-to-day legal affairs. In addition to being a frequent speaker on open source–related topics, Matt routinely advises Black Duck customers with respect to leading-edge open source adoption, use, and compliance matters. Prior to 2009, Matt was with Bernstein Shur, where he counseled companies on a variety of intellectual property matters, including open source compliance. Before that, he held in-house positions with Cabletron Systems and Standex International. Matt earned his law degree from the University of New Hampshire School of Law and holds a master’s degree in business from Plymouth State University.