Bruce Heidecke, Executive VP & General Counsel, Director
As General Counsel, Mr. Heidecke brings to iBroadband over 30 years of business and corporate legal experience and litigation. Prior to joining iBroadband, he was General Counsel for Cross Access Corporation. There he was instrumental in structuring, drafting, and negotiating numerous customer contracts as well as licensing and royalty agreements with major corporate partners such as IBM and various other third party vendors. He also directed the activities of out-side counsel and personally handled corporate litigation and employment issues for the company. In October 2003 he helped negotiate and close the sale of the company to IBM.
Prior to his time at Cross Access Corporation, Mr. Heidecke served as Associate General Counsel for DBMS, Inc., a software tools and services organization. There he was primarily responsible for the negotiation and completion of customer license agreements, Requests For Proposal, vendor agreements, leases, and government compliance documents. He provided in-house litigation services and handled employee issues and vendor disputes. Mr. Heidecke was a key member of the DBMS team that structured and negotiated the agreement through which Computer Associates acquired the company in 1990.
Before moving into the corporate sector, Mr. Heidecke was a partner on the law firm of Heidecke & Heidecke. There his primary areas of expertise included general business and commercial law transactions, real estate, acquisitions and mergers, business dispute resolution and litigation. From 1982 through 1990 he served as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois, representing the Illinois Department of Transportation in condemnation proceedings. Prior to that, he began his career as an Assistant State's Attorney in DuPage County, Illinois, where he rose to the position of a senior felony trial prosecutor.
Mr. Heidecke earned his BA in Political Science at the University of Montana in 1969 and his JD in 1973 from the John Marshall College of Law.