UiPath,
the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market leader, today announced the
appointment of Brad Brubaker as its chief legal officer, general
counsel. In this new role, Brubaker will provide legal leadership,
guidance and counsel at the strategic and tactical level to support the
company’s global mission to accelerate the adoption of automation across
public and private sectors and businesses of all sizes.
Brubaker joins UiPath from SAP where he served as senior vice president,
general counsel of SAP’s global field legal function. As a member of
SAP’s senior leadership team, he led a team of more than 300 legal
professionals in 20 countries and was responsible for supporting SAP’s
global field operations and subsidiaries located in 50 countries.
Brubaker has spent the majority of his career at SAP, holding several
leadership positions including general counsel and corporate secretary
for SAP America where he managed the legal, contracts compliance, risk
management and government relations functions.
Brubaker began his legal career as an associate at Brown & Connery.
Prior to attending law school, he was a systems engineer at RCA
Aerospace and General Electric Corporations. An advocate for re-skilling
and education, Brubaker serves as the chair of The City Year
Philadelphia Site Board, which enables City Year Philadelphia to build a
strong and sustainable organization that unites community leaders to
make a difference.
“UiPath has had a tremendous impact on the technology industry and I’m
excited to join the company at such a pivotal time in its history,” said
Brubaker. “I look forward to working with both the executive leadership
and legal teams to continue to build upon the strong vision and platform
UiPath has established over time and to position it as it embarks upon
its next chapter.”
UiPath’s general counsel Vasile Tiple will become Deputy General
Counsel, reporting to Brubaker. “Vasile was our first lawyer hired and
has built an incredible global legal operation to enable UiPath’s
remarkable growth. I want to thank Vasile for all his leadership thus
far. I am excited to see Brad, Vasile and the entire team take UiPath to
the next level, driving even greater levels of success,” said Marie
Myers, CFO at UiPath.
Myers continued: “We are delighted to welcome Brad to UiPath. His
experience counseling CEOs and senior leaders on a wide spectrum of
legal matters, from organizational transformation to strategic
transactions to intellectual property, make him an excellent addition to
UiPath. We look forward to his leadership as we continue to drive the
company to even greater levels of success.”
About UiPath
UiPath
is leading the “automation first” era – championing one robot for every
person, delivering free and open training and collaboration and enabling
robots to learn new skills through AI and machine learning. Led by a
commitment to bring digital era skills to more than a million people,
the company’s enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform has
already automated millions of repetitive, mind-numbing tasks for
business and government organizations all over the world, improving
productivity, customer experience and employee job satisfaction.
Recently named by Comparably as the
6th happiest place to work and the 11th
best company culture among large businesses, UiPath is one of the
fastest growing and highest-valued AI enterprise software companies
worldwide.
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