About

Todd Smithline

Todd Smithline is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Bonterms.

Todd has been designing, negotiating and teaching contracts for nearly thirty years.

Todd was General Counsel of Marimba, an enterprise software company he helped lead from start-up to successful public company. After Marimba Todd founded Smithline PC, a boutique technology transactions firm that represented category-leading Silicon Valley software/SaaS, platform and device companies and pioneered fixed-fee subscription billing. Todd started his legal career with Latham & Watkins and Gunderson Dettmer.

Todd teaches at UC Berkeley School of Law and is a board member or advisor to multiple start-ups.

Todd is a graduate of Tufts University and UCLA School of Law.

Chris Walker

Chris Walker is Co-Founder and Head of Product at Bonterms.

Chris has over a decade of experience in enterprise software. As a product leader at Palantir Technologies, Chris led teams building analytics software for Fortune 500 customers in the Banking, Oil & Gas, and Health Insurance sectors. Following Palantir, Chris held product leadership positions at DataFox, Oracle and DraftWise, a legal tech startup.

Chris is a graduate of Stanford University.

Patrick Mullin

Patrick Mullin is Business Operations Manager at Bonterms.

Patrick is charged with systemizing and improving every process and service at Bonterms. Prior to joining Bonterms, Patrick was Technology Manager for Propeller Industries, a provider of strategic CFO and finance services to growing companies. While at Propeller, Patrick developed products that delivered financial and operational insights to Propeller’s clients and also managed the company’s internal business and technology systems.

Patrick started his career as a corporate paralegal in the private equity transactions practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

Patrick is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.