JOHN H. LINDSTROM, ESQ. 350 Main Street North, Unit 406, Stillwater, Minnesota 55082

277 Moose Crossing Road, Gallatin Gateway, Montana 59730

john@jhlindstrom.com +1 651 278 3646

Overview

Accomplished trial attorney and successful C-level executive with experience in major corporations, international technology businesses, start-ups, and turnaround businesses

Familiar with both legal and operational issues facing technology and software-as-a-service businesses, as a C-level executive and as a board member

Designed and built businesses from the ground up and provided stability to fledging businesses faced with disruptive technologies

Deep experience in designing, implementing, and leading a foreign-based principle business, successfully representing these businesses before the tax authorities

Seeking challenging, project-based work or a full-time position in a number of areas, including litigation, general counsel, troubled businesses, start-ups, the merger of businesses and corporate cultures, strategic analysis and planning, board membership, venture capital due diligence and investing, structuring and defending centralized foreign businesses, and executive leadership

Expertise

Law

• Skilled trial attorney with significant large and small law firm experience in commercial litigation, including construction law, intellectual property (focus on trademark and trade dress), technology, partnerships, and employment law and the management of large, complex cases

• Worked closely with and supervised the work of corporate legal counsel in small and large businesses

• Extensive experience representing boards of public and private companies

Leadership

• Wide breadth of experience gained in two decades of service as CEO, CTO, and CSO in public and private companies, primarily involving technology, publishing, and intellectual property

• Skilled at forming businesses and taking them from startup to sale or next-stage growth

• Practiced at identifying, analyzing, and remediating issues within troubled companies

Directorship

• More than a decade of experience as the Chairman of the Board and senior executive member of Thomson Reuters Global Resources, A.G.

• Fully-versed in the issues involving public accountability and liability facing boards

Business evaluation and analysis

• Adept at conducting due diligence for investors, providing legal, strategic, and operational perspectives

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Consultancy for tax efficient centralized structures

• Skilled at constructing effective, sustainable, principal company structures out of transfer-pricing theory using my unique, audit-tested approach

• Experience in both the Swiss and Singapore environments

• Successfully defended centralized companies before the tax authorities, including the Internal Revenue Service and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs

Work Experience

Lindstrom Law Firm – Present – Montana, U.S.A.

Frontier Angel Fund II (2013 to 2015) – Montana, U.S.A

Active investor in an investment fund designed to nurture and grow startup businesses in Montana, the West, and the Pacific Northwest

• Screen and conduct due diligence of candidate businesses, particularly in the technology space and advise fledgling businesses and entrepreneurs in a variety of business, legal, and board issues

PricewaterhouseCoopers (2011 to 2013) – Zug and Zürich, Switzerland and Singapore

Managing Director, Value Chain Transformation

• Advised clients in the design, formation, implementation, operation, and defense of tax-efficient centralized company structures to produce sustainable operational and tax benefits

• Developed a comprehensive, unique approach to building structures designed to minimize risks arising from legislation in the area of Base Erosion/Profit Shifting

• Evaluated the compliance of centralized company structures with tax laws and prepared companies to defend tax authority audits

Thomson Reuters Global Resources (“TRGR”) (2001 to 2011) – Switzerland

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director, and Chairman of the Board (TRGR is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thomson Reuters (“TRI”), one of the largest information solution providers in the world)

TRGR devised online technology and content strategies for TRI and owned and managed much of TRI’s content and technology and other intellectual property

• Founded and managed the company for over a decade to acclaimed success

• Grew the business from a startup with 11 employees to a mature company with over 135 employees from across the globe

• Developed new methods of financial asset management

• Pioneered controls and procedures, bringing increased accountability to technology and content development and reducing overall spend while increasing product functions and features and reducing time to market

• Authored most of the strategic, legal, and operational documentation to support the business

• Formed new offices in Switzerland, negotiated real estate leases, hired and supervised international legal counsel and accountants, dealt with governmental authorities, obtained all necessary permits, managed construction and build out of three locations, hired employees, relocated expatriates and families, operated business, and coordinated with other TR businesses around the world

• Evaluated Organisation of Economic Development pronouncements and guidelines, Internal Revenue Service and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs laws and regulations, creating strategies and operations designed to accommodate these influences and successfully defended the business before the IRS and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs

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Thomson Legal & Regulatory Group (2000 to 2001) – Eagan, Minnesota

Senior Vice-President, Technology Strategy and Vice-President, ePractice Services and Solutions

• Responsible for strategic planning from a combined technology and business perspective for an organization with a technology budget exceeding $500 million

• Formed new e-commerce unit to develop TR’s portal site and website development business

• Direct supervision of 175 employees with complete P&L responsibility for three divisions

KeyTech LLC, Key Investment, Inc., and MSP Communications, Inc. (1996 to 2000) – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Chief Executive Officer; Chief Technology Officer

KeyTech was a privately held company specializing in corporate Web-based applications

Key Investment is a private investment company; MSP Communications is a Key Investment company specializing in periodical and custom publishing

West Publishing Co. (1993 to 1996) – Eagan, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Special Technology Business Advisor to the President

• Directed development of new electronic products in the legal publishing industry

• Revised strategy of and features for the company’s flagship product, Westlaw, one of the most successful online research applications in history

• Headed the company’s evaluation and development initiative for new electronic products

• Developed strategy and directed implementation of company’s e-commerce and Web products

Briggs and Morgan Law Firm (1982 to 1995) – St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. – Shareholder

• Specialized in technical litigation (including software and computer-related matters), construction law, partnership and corporate litigation, intellectual property litigation, employment law and litigation, and international law

Washington County, Stillwater, Minnesota, U.S.A. (1981 to 1982)

Assistant Washington County Attorney, Criminal Division

• Prosecuted misdemeanors and felonies from intake to appeal

• Served as lead prosecutor for numerous court and jury trials

Dorsey and Whitney Law Firm (1979 to 1981)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. – Associate in Litigation Department

• Specialized in technical litigation, trade secret litigation, employment law and litigation, construction law, and patent defense and prosecution

Dallas County Texas, U.S.A. District Attorney’s Office (1976 to 1978)

Investigator intern, Specialized Crimes Division

Coralville, Iowa, U.S.A. Police Department (1974 to 1976)

Patrolman

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Education

Graduate degree

Juris Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin Law School, magna cum laude Recipient: Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award and Red Stole Honors Graduate Staff, Wisconsin Law Review

Undergraduate degree

Bachelor of Science, the University of Iowa