William Uchimoto:  

After high school I went to UC Davis, became the editor of the UCD Third World Forum and graduated with a degree in Economics in 1978. During college I drove a 1971 Corvette Stingray with t-tops. Miss that car! After college, I went straight to law school, which was Hastings' College of the Law in San Francisco. I graduated with Russ Hom, a fine Sacramento judge, and Chris Darden, the OJ prosecutor. In 1981 I passed the California bar exam and started out as a government securities attorney in Washington, DC with the SEC. I worked on rules and regulations for creating America's National Market System for stock trading. After the SEC, I was hired by the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (the PHLX"), America's first and oldest stock exchange, to be its General Counsel. The PHLX is now owned and operated by the NASDAQ Stock Market. After the PHLX, I was an Executive Vice President and General Counsel of a public technology company listed on NASDAQ. From 2003 through 2015, I was a partner at several prominent law firms heading their Securities Regulation ...Expand for more