Ken Massaroni is general counsel and corporate secretary at Seagate, the Scotts Valley-based company that manufactures computer hard drives and digital storage devices. Massaroni is responsible for all of Seagate’s corporate legal activities, including intellectual property, patents, trademarks and copyrights, litigation, risk management, contracts, employment law, corporate governance and ethics. He also oversees the company’s facilities and security departments.
Massaroni served as chief IP counsel when he first came to Seagate in 2006. He moved into the GC position in April 2008 upon the retirement of Bill Hudson. Before joining the company, Massaroni was deputy general counsel for several years at Scientific-Atlanta. Before that, he held senior patent counsel positions at Motorola, served as GC at Optical Imaging Systems and worked in-house at Energy Conversion Devices. Earlier in his career, he worked as an associate at the law firm of Collier, Shannon, Rill and Scott. Massaroni received an undergraduate degree from Butler University in Indiana and his law degree from Indiana University.
