Dion Messer, general counsel — intellectual property, Limelight Networks

Messer is an experienced IP professional, winning litigation and taking Limelight from just two issued patents to more than 120. She owned her own successful software training company and is renowned as a digital signal processing engineer with nine patents.

Greatest accomplishment: “Winning Limelight’s U.S. Supreme Court case, 9-0.”

Childhood aspiration: “To prove that despite being female, I could be successful at any profession I chose.”

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