Consero is honored to announce that Todd B. Carver will be joining the Forum faculty at Consero's Corporate Litigation Forum 2011.
Todd Carver is Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of Teradata Corporation. He serves on the Teradata global senior executive “Leadership Team” and global Law Department Leadership Team, he heads-up the company’s Ethics & Compliance Office, and he serves as Chief Counsel of the company’s Litigation & Employment Law Group. Mr. Carver has served in these roles since Teradata was spun-off into an independent publicly traded company from NCR Corporation in 2007. Teradata is a $2 billion-dollars-in-annual-revenue “data warehousing” and “business intelligence” computer, software, and services company, which is headquartered in the Dayton, Ohio area, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is a member of the S&P 500, and conducts business in over 80 countries.
From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Carver served as the Global Chief Legal Officer for the Teradata Division of NCR, and at various points he additionally served as NCR’s company-wide Chief Counsel for its global Business Transactions Group and as Chief Counsel for its Americas Region. Mr. Carver and the Teradata Law Department team have provided a comprehensive range of legal and transactional support services for Teradata during a period of significant expansion in Teradata’s global transaction volumes, technology offerings, intellectual property portfolio, patent licensing revenues, alliance relationships, and acquisitions.
With the spin-off of Teradata into an independent company, Mr. Carver also was chartered with the responsibility to create, implement, and manage the Teradata Ethics & Compliance program, including its Code of Conduct, ethics and compliance training, orientation and awareness initiatives, and initiatives to embed ethics, compliance, and integrity into the culture and foundation of the company. In that role, Mr. Carver chairs the company’s global Ethics & Compliance Committee and reports to the company’s Board of Directors’ Audit Committee. Under his leadership, Teradata has been recognized as among the top 100 “World’s Most Ethical Companies” by the independent think-tank and watch-group Ethisphere Institute for the past two years. Also, since Teradata was spun-off, Mr. Carver has served in interim roles as the Chief Counsel for the company’s Europe-Middle-East-Africa (EMEA) Region and Chief Counsel for Asia-Pacific-Japan (APJ) Region (during which he was located in the company’s Sydney, Australia, regional headquarters offices).
Prior to assuming his executive roles with Teradata, Mr. Carver served as Assistant Law Vice President for the Teradata Division of NCR for 2 years, supporting Teradata’s global expansion by serving as senior counsel regarding transactions, intellectual property, patent licensing, business law, acquisitions, and litigation. Prior to that, Mr. Carver served for 2 years as Senior Litigation Counsel and Business Unit Counsel in the telecommunications industry for U.S. West Communications (acquired by Qwest Communications) in Denver, Colorado. Prior to his tenure at U.S. West, Mr. Carver served as litigation counsel for NCR (and AT&T Global Information Solutions when NCR was a part of AT&T), with increasing company-wide responsibilities related to litigation, intellectual property, patent licensing, technology law, alternative dispute resolution, equipment leasing/financing, acquisitions, and law department management. Cumulatively, Mr. Carver’s tenure with the NCR-AT&T-Teradata lineage of companies now exceeds 25 years.
Mr. Carver holds a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the University of Dayton School of Law, where he served on the Law Review (as a writer and then as editor) and the Moot Court, and a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, and with departmental honors, in Political Science from Wright State University. Mr. Carver has authored several published legal/business journal articles related to dispute avoidance and resolution processes, including alternative dispute resolution and early case assessment, including in the Harvard Business Review and the Dispute Resolution Journal, has served as an arbitrator and mediator for high-technology cases through the American Arbitration Association, and has served as an adjunct professor of law (teaching alternative dispute resolution, conflict management, arbitration, mediation, and negotiation), and as a member of Board of Advisors for the University of Dayton School of Law.
Beyond his normal work and professional activities noted above, Mr. Carver is a highly regarded chef and award-winning chuck wagon cook. He serves as a guest-chef periodically at an Italian restaurant for special wine tasting dinners. He also has participated in, won, given demonstrations at, and judged outdoor open-fire chuck wagon and barbeque cooking competitions, and he enjoys the hobby of open-fire chuck wagon cooking while on back-country horse-back trail rides in the American west.
