Richard A.Goshorn
Position
- VP and General Counsel and Secretary, Verisign
Education
- B.A. degree in Economics, College of Wooster
- J.D. degree, Duke University's School of Law
Experience
- Leads Verisign's Global Law Department and oversees the management of the company's outside counsel.
- Joined Verisign in 2007 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
- Has served as General Counsel of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, an international law firm
- Worked as Corporate Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Acterna Corporation, a public communications test equipment company
- Has held a variety of senior executive legal positions in London, Brussels, Singapore and Washington with Cable and Wireless PLC, a British telecommunications company
- Has also held the position of Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Cable & Wireless Global
- Served as a senior attorney at Fort Howard Corporation, a paper and plastics manufacturing company
- Has also spent six years in private practice, first with Frost Brown Todd LLC in Cincinnati, Ohio and later with Gottesman Jones and Partners in London, England
