PALO ALTO — Online security company Finjan Holdings Inc. has appointed Julie Mar-Spinola, a 26-year veteran of the technology sector, to the newly created role of vice president, legal operations. Mar-Spinola has held top legal jobs at Bay Area companies, including Alta Devices, Atmel Corp. and Phoenix Technologies, and is a co-founder of ChIPs, a group dedicated to the advancement of women in patent and IP-related fields. She’ll be responsible for both legal and business matters at Finjan, tasked with, among other things, building the company’s IP assets, leading legal operations and guiding its patent enforcement strategy.
Mar-Spinola is joining the company, which was founded in 1997, at an inflection point. Finjan had sold proprietary software able to detect emerging security threats until it sold that business to M86 Security in 2009. But Finjan hung onto valuable intellectual property, and it continues to develop new technologies. And as the cybersecurity sector, of which Finjan was a pioneer, has been heating up, so too has Finjan’s enforcement activity. In 2013, the company filed patent suits against a group of network security firms, including FireEye Inc., Websense Inc. and Blue Coat Systems Inc.
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