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Matt Ruderman, Chief Legal Officer

As Chief Legal Officer, Matt Ruderman leads Definitive Healthcare’s legal department, providing risk-adjusted, practical guidance throughout the business. In this role, Matt oversees our commercial contracts, privacy, and corporate governance teams, and together with those teams, provides legal support on day-to-day matters as well as large, cross-functional efforts such as M&A, capital markets transactions, marketing and branding campaigns, and go-to-market initiatives. Matt also supports the Board of Directors in his role as Corporate Secretary.

Prior to serving as Chief Legal Officer, Matt was Definitive Healthcare’s VP, Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary. Before joining Definitive Healthcare, he handled various legal roles at Citrix Systems, including serving as Citrix’s lead M&A attorney, and prior to that spent a number of years at leading, global law firms Cooley LLP and Hogan Lovells.

Matt holds an undergraduate degree from American University and a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School.

Outside of work, Matt enjoys spending time with his wife and two young kids, and falling somewhere in the range of poor to mediocre at a host of hobbies from cooking, to playing and recording music, to fantasy football.