Raymond L. Ocampo Jr.

Samurai Surfer LLC
P.O. Box 1688
San Mateo, California 94401
(650) 343-4343
rocampo@pacbell.net

Corporate Background

Raymond L. Ocampo Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Samurai Surfer LLC, a private consulting and investment company. He serves on the boards of PMI Group, Inc. (PMI), CytoGenix, Inc. (CYGX), Intraware, Inc. (ITRA), and Keynote Systems, Inc. (KEYN). He served on the boards of Vantive Corporation and Teamscape Corporation (before their separate acquisitions by PeopleSoft, Inc.), Spruce Technologies, Inc. (before its acquisition by Apple Computer, Inc.), VitalStream Holdings, Inc. (VSTH) (before its acquisition by Internap Network Services Corp.) and several private companies.

Nonprofit Background

Mr. Ocampo is Chairman of the Board of The Asian Pacific Fund (2006 - present) and has served on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (1994-97), the Asian Pacific Fund (1994 - present), the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (1997 - 2003), the Computer Law Association (1998 - 2000), Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California (1994 - 2001), Earthjustice (2000 - present), KQED (1998 - 2000), and The Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (1999 - 2001). He co-founded and served as president of the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California.

Legal and Educational Background

Mr. Ocampo retired in November 1996 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary at Oracle Corporation, the world’s second largest software company, after serving as its chief legal counsel for more than a decade. During his tenure at Oracle Corporation, the company’s annual revenues grew from $50 million in 1986 to $5 billion in 1996. Before joining Oracle Corporation in 1986, Mr. Ocampo specialized in antitrust and complex litigation with various law firms in San Francisco (1976-86) and taught professional responsibility, trial practice, and legal writing and research at Hastings College of the Law (1977-83). He received his undergraduate degree from U.C.L.A. in 1973 and his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at U.C. Berkeley in 1976.

Technology Law Background

After retiring from Oracle Corporation Mr. Ocampo in 1997 helped found, and for two years thereafter served as Executive Director of, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, which for the past decade has been rated the leading intellectual property law program in American law schools. Mr. Ocampo has spoken and written frequently on business and legal issues involving software, Internet and computer technologies and has served as a mediator and arbitrator and as an expert witness in technology-related disputes. He has lectured and given keynote addresses at scores of continuing legal education programs. His works include Surfing the Law and Technology Tsunami (American Bar Association 2001), a collection of keynote addresses about the intersection of law and technology, and Negotiating and Drafting Software Consulting Agreements (Glasser LegalWorks 1996), a book he co-wrote with Shelley Curtis and John Moss.

Bar Organization Activities

Mr. Ocampo was the 2001-02 Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Science & Technology Law. In addition to serving the Section as an officer in various capacities since 1998, he served as the chair of the Section’s E-Commerce Division (1998-99) and Internet & Cyberspace Committee (1996-99) and as co-chair of the Multimedia & Interactive Technologies Committee (1995-96). He also served as chair of the Computer Litigation Committee (1992-94) of the ABA’s Section of Litigation. Mr. Ocampo served the ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession (2000-03) and the ABA President's Advisory Council on Racial and Ethnic Diversity (2003-04). He also has served on the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession (2005-08) and on the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists (2004 - present).

Diversity Activities

In addition to his activites in the American Bar Association, Mr. Ocampo has spoken frequently on issues involving diversity in the legal profession and has been recognized for his work involving minority communities. In 1994, Mr. Ocampo enacted a policy requiring outside law firms to appoint a woman or minority to the case or project for which they were retained by Oracle Corporation. In 1995, he received the Distinguished Corporate Executive Award from the Asian Business League of San Francisco and a Pioneer in the Profession Award from the California Minority Counsel Program. In 1996, he received the Cruz Reynoso Community Service Award from the California La Raza Lawyers Association. In 1998, Mr. Ocampo received the National Asian Pacific Bar Association’s Trailblazer Award. Mr. Ocampo served on the California Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts (1992-96). Mr. Ocampo established and has funded two annual scholarships awarded since 2000 by the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California (FBANC), an organization he co-founded in 1981, and awarded since 2003 by the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. He is the recipient of FBANC’s 2004 Jose Rizal Award for outstanding service to the Filipino legal community.

Personal Activities

Mr. Ocampo competed in the luge and represented the Philippines in the event at the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He has completed more than a dozen marathons (including the 1996 Athens Marathon). He was a member of the Radford High School 1968-69 Hawaii state champion basketball team. In 1970 he set a single-game school assist record, 20, at Heuneme High School in California. His avocation since 2001 has been ballroom dancing.

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