{"id":2242,"date":"2022-08-12T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T11:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdisoftwareprd.wpengine.com\/?page_id=2242"},"modified":"2023-10-24T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:00:59","slug":"stacey-smotherman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pditechnologies.com\/our-story\/executive-team\/stacey-smotherman\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Smotherman, Chief Legal Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-mbm-container alignwide has-blue-base-background-color\" style=\"padding-top:32px;padding-bottom:32px\"><div class=\"mbm-container\">\n<div class=\"mbm-spacer mbm-spacer__0 mbm-spacer__sm-0 mbm-spacer__md-32 mbm-spacer__lg-32 wp-block-mbm-responsive-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-blue-alt-1-color has-text-color has-golf-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase\"><strong>Leadership Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbm-spacer mbm-spacer__12 wp-block-mbm-responsive-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-base-color has-text-color\" id=\"h-stacey-smotherman\">Stacey Smotherman<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbm-spacer mbm-spacer__0 mbm-spacer__sm-0 mbm-spacer__md-24 mbm-spacer__lg-24 wp-block-mbm-responsive-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-mbm-container alignwide\" style=\"padding-top:16px;padding-bottom:16px\"><div class=\"mbm-container\"><div class=\"yoast-breadcrumbs\"><span><span class=\"yoast-breadcrumb-link yoast-breadcrumb-home\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pditechnologies.com\/\">PDI Home<\/a><\/span> <span class='yoast-breadcrumb-separator'><i class='fas fa-chevron-right'><\/i><\/span> <span class=\"yoast-breadcrumb-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pditechnologies.com\/our-story\/\">Our Story<\/a><\/span> <span class='yoast-breadcrumb-separator'><i class='fas fa-chevron-right'><\/i><\/span> <span class=\"yoast-breadcrumb-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pditechnologies.com\/our-story\/executive-team\/\">Executive Team<\/a><\/span> <span class='yoast-breadcrumb-separator'><i class='fas fa-chevron-right'><\/i><\/span> <span class=\"breadcrumb_last\" aria-current=\"page\">Stacey Smotherman, Chief Legal Officer<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbm-spacer mbm-spacer__16 mbm-spacer__sm-16 mbm-spacer__md-16 mbm-spacer__lg-48 wp-block-mbm-responsive-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-mbm-container alignwide\" style=\"padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\"><div class=\"mbm-container\">\n<div class=\"mbm-row wp-block-mbm-grid-container mbm-row__all-normal mbm-row__sm-normal mbm-row__md-normal mbm-row__lg-normal mbm-row__all-reverse-column mbm-row__sm-reverse-column mbm-row__md-standard mbm-row__lg-standard\">\n<div class=\"mbm-col mbm-col__12 mbm-col__sm-12 mbm-col__md-6 mbm-col__lg-5 wp-block-mbm-grid-column\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-bravo-font-size\" id=\"h-stacey-smotherman-1\">Stacey Smotherman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-chief-legal-officer\">Chief Legal Officer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Stacey joined PDI in 2018. She has global responsibility for PDI\u2019s legal needs, including supporting acquisitions, expanding software intellectual property licensing, trademarks, and copyrights, as well as general governance and compliance. Before accepting her new role, Stacey served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Excentus Corporation since 2011. She is an accomplished attorney with more than 25 years of experience in corporate, intellectual property and technology law with multiple firms across the country. Stacey holds a BBA in Finance from the University of Oklahoma and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbm-spacer mbm-spacer__24 mbm-spacer__sm-24 mbm-spacer__md-32 mbm-spacer__lg-48 wp-block-mbm-responsive-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbm-col mbm-col__12 mbm-col__sm-12 mbm-col__md-6 mbm-col__lg-6 mbm-offset__lg-1 wp-block-mbm-grid-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pditechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stacey-Smotherman.jpg\" alt=\"Stacey Smotherman, Chief Legal Officer, PDI Technologies\" class=\"wp-image-13149\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:350px;height:350px\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pditechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stacey-Smotherman.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pditechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stacey-Smotherman-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pditechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Stacey-Smotherman-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbm-spacer mbm-spacer__24 mbm-spacer__sm-24 mbm-spacer__md-0 mbm-spacer__lg-0 wp-block-mbm-responsive-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mbm-spacer mbm-spacer__16 mbm-spacer__sm-16 mbm-spacer__md-16 mbm-spacer__lg-48 wp-block-mbm-responsive-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":13149,"parent":1950,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2242","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stacey Smotherman, Chief Legal Officer | PDI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stacey joined PDI in 2018. 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