Profile Karlyn Stanley
B.G. Fund, L.P., Washington, DC

Karlyn Stanley is Executive Vice President of BG Fund, L.P., a private equity investment fund. In the past year, her focus has been on investments that combine mobile phone technology with healthcare applications. Prior to joining the BG Fund in January 2006, Ms. Stanley was a partner in the communications and technology law firm of Cole, Raywid & Braverman (now Davis, Wright and Tremaine) in Washington, D.C., where she developed the firm’s practice in the area of emerging technologies such as an alternative to cellular transmission towers, radio frequency identification (RFID) applications with cellular phones, and electronic healthcare records. In addition, she assisted clients from the wireless, wire line and cable industries in successfully resolving regulatory and commercial disputes, both nationally and internationally. In September 2004, she was named a “Star of the Bar” by the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia. Ms. Stanley was a Senior Attorney at AT&T before joining Cole, Raywid & Braverman as a partner in 1997. She joined AT&T after serving as a Senior Associate at the national law firm of Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges and as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. Stanley was selected for the Attorney General’s Honors program at the Department of Justice following a federal clerkship for the Honorable Fred B. Ugast, Chief Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She received her law degree from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., in 1983, and her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, magna cum laude, in 1974. Ms. Stanley was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Technology Law Association (formerly the Computer Law Association) in 1999, and continues to serve as a member of the Board.