Adam Becker is the Director of Legal Operations at Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database. Prior, he held legal operations leadership roles at Endeavor and at MetLife, where he also was responsible for the management of legal support services. Adam is currently on the CLOC Board of Directors and served on CLOC's inaugural Education Advisory Council. Adam spent a decade working in law firms focusing on operations & management, professional development, and recruiting and began his legal career as an Intellectual Property associate at Skadden. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and got his B.A. in Cultural Anthropology at New York University.