Russ DeLeon

Who is Russ DeLeon?

Russ DeLeon worked at PartyGaming with his wife Ruth Parasol.

Born in 1965 in Sacramento, California, DeLeon received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. He then worked on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. for his local congressman the late Robert Matsui, and then for California Governor George Deukmejian as an Executive Fellow. He was admitted to Harvard Law School in 1988, but deferred his admission to travel around the world for one year, visiting 25 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia and then teaching English in Tokyo, Japan for 6 months.

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1992, DeLeon joined the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, as an Associate in the Business Department, Intellectual Property and Corporate Finance Groups where he managed a wide variety of transactions, such as venture capital financings, mergers & acquisitions and public offerings, for start-up and established high-tech, media and entertainment companies. During his two and a half years there, DeLeon helped Morrison & Foerster pioneer one of the leading “convergence” practices in the San Francisco Bay Area, and served as Co-Founder and General Counsel to the San Francisco Multimedia Development Group with over 500 corporate members.