May Liang
Co-Founder
General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer

As General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer of OpenConcept Systems, Inc., Ms. Liang is responsible for all legal, financial and business development issues for OpenConcept. Prior to founding OpenConcept, Ms. Liang was General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer of Total Music, LLC/Ruckus Network, LLC, a digital music entertainment company, where Ms. Liang was responsible for the financial planning, legal and privacy issues relating to the company. Ms. Liang has also served as Executive Director of the Epilepsy Therapy Project, where she spearheaded the formation of a non-profit whose mission is to advance new therapies for epilepsy into the market by funding cutting edge epilepsy research. While at ETP, Ms. Liang launched epilepsy.com, the most popular website for issues relating to epilepsy, with more than a million page views a month. Ms. Liang also served as Vice-President and Associate General Counsel at AOL for almost 8 years. Ms. Liang’s areas of expertise included intellectual property, technology licensing, telecommunications, employment law, and Internet-related issues. Her responsibilities included serving as general counsel to the Netscape Communications and AOL Technologies divisions. Ms. Liang has also been an associate at Soble & Associates in Washington, D.C., Foulston & Siefkin in Wichita, Kansas and Ware & Freidenrich in Palo Alto, California.

Ms. Liang has written numerous articles relating to intellectual property and has frequently spoken on intellectual property and technology licensing issues.

Ms. Liang holds bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and political science from Stanford University and her law degree from the University of Michigan.

Ms. Liang is a member of the Board of Directors for the Epilepsy Therapy Project, the Children’s Chorus of Washington and the Children’s Law Center. She also sits on the Advisory Board of the YMCA-Fairfax County. In addition, she is a member of the Stanford University Special Gifts Committee, the Sidwell Friends National Leadership Gift Board and has previously served on the advisory boards of George Washington University’s Virginia campus and the American Corporate Counsel Association as well as the Board of Directors of the Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center. She is also a Fellow of the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program and Co-Chair of its Executive Committee.