Shawn Lindquist

Shawn is the Chief Legal Officer at MX. He is a seasoned, business-minded adviser and executive who has been working with emerging growth companies for nearly 25 years, and he has extensive experience working closely with management teams and boards of directors. Shawn served as chief legal officer and a member of the c-suite of four public companies, all of which he helped to navigate through significant growth and expansion periods, including their IPOs, as well as many private and public equity and debt financings and numerous mergers and acquisitions transactions. Prior to joining MX, Shawn served as the chief legal officer of Vivint Smart Home, Inc., a leading smart home company from May 2016 through August 2021. From February 2014 to May 2016, he served as the chief legal officer of Vivint Solar, Inc., a leading distributed solar energy company acquired by Sunrun Inc. in 2020. From 2010 to 2014, he served as the chief legal officer of Fusion-io, Inc., a leading provider of flash memory solutions for application acceleration acquired by Sandisk Corporation in 2014. From 2005 to 2010, Shawn served as the chief legal officer of Omniture, Inc., through the completion and integration of its merger with Adobe Inc. Shawn's roles previous to Omniture included: corporate and securities attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; in-house corporate counsel, business development and M&A for Novell, a global software and services company; and general counsel of a venture-backed software company that was acquired. Shawn has also previously served as an adjunct professor of law at the law school at Brigham Young University.