"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."--Michelangelo

Meet Our Founder:  Charlotte Danielsson, Esq.

JURIS DOCTORATE--STANFORD LAW SCHOOL; BA--UC BERKELEY-ECONOMICS & POLITICAL SCIENCE

Infiniti Law was founded by Charlotte Danielsson, a graduate of Stanford Law School.  Stanford is ranked as one of the top three law schools in the United States and is the highest ranking law school on the West Coast.  Ms. Danielsson also holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science from UC Berkeley, where she graduated with Honors in the Major and Distinction in General Scholarship from the University. Ms. Danielsson has practiced corporate law and business immigration law since 1998 representing both private and public companies with a special emphasis on technology companies. Ms. Danielsson is a frequent speaker on immigration reform issues, legal issues for startups and corporates, building cross-border innovation alliances/collaborations and building technology/innovation ecosystems. A frequent speaker both domestically and internationally, she has even been invited to speak by the European Commission and the California legislature.

COMMITMENT TO INNOVATION AND INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

Ms. Danielsson is committed to increasing the exchange of technology and innovation between countries around the world and the United States.  

As a way of giving back to the entrepreneurial community, Ms. Danielsson runs Silicon Vikings, a 45,000+ network that connects Nordic & Baltic innovation with Silicon Valley and vice versa; it is a nonprofit organization that has been headquartered in Silicon Valley since 1997 with 11 nodes throughout the Nordic & Baltic region. She is responsible for organizing 30-40 technology events, corporate and startup innovation programs per year in various parts of the world on topics such as: Industry 4.0/Advanced Manufacturing, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Clean Tech/Sustainability, Mobility Tech and Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Cyber Security, Gaming, Photonics, 3D printing, Digital Health, Life Science, Future of Work, AgTech, EdTech, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship.

Ms. Danielsson is responsible for bringing the Startup World Cup competition to the Nordics & Baltics and domestically to Washington, Oregon, California, Texas & Utah. The Startup World Cup Global Grand Finale has an investment prize of $1million USD and the Finale event has included speakers such as: Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple; Reid Hoffman, Founding CEO of LinkedIn; Vinod Khosla, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems; Adam Cheyer, Co-Founder of Siri; John Chambers, Former CEO of Cisco; Marcelo Claure, COO, Softbank; Marc Randolph, Co-Founder of Netflix; Tim Westergren, Founder and Former CEO, Pandora; Jay Vijayan, Former CIO of Tesla; Ray Lane, Former President & COO, Oracle; Terry Jones, Founding Chairman, Kayak.com

Ms. Danielsson is an Ambassador for MIT Technology Review and is responsible for nominating Innovators Under 35 who have made outstanding technological achievements as entrepreneurs, inventors, visionaries, pioneers and humanitarians.

Ms. Danielsson is a board member of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce DFW. Prior to that, Ms. Danielsson served as Chairwoman of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco/Silicon Valley and Assistant Secretary of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce USA.

Ms. Danielsson played an instrumental role in uniting the various individual European-American Chambers of Commerce in the Bay Area via the formation of the Association of American European Chambers of Commerce and Business Associations and even drafted the Bylaws; she served as the organization’s treasurer upon its incorporation.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Ms. Danielsson is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), an organization dedicated to keeping attorneys abreast of changes in the field of immigration and to legislative advocacy regarding immigration.  Ms. Danielsson was honored by inclusion in the 2002-2003 edition of Who's Who for her demonstrated leadership and achievement in the field of law and was recognized in 2004 as on the the Great Women of the 21st Century for her contributions to the legal profession.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND EMPOWERMENT

Ms. Danielsson’s nonprofit efforts include breaking down barriers based on race, gender, and LGBTQ identification.

Ms. Danielsson is the co-founder of apiNXT, a nonprofit dedicated to breaking down professional barriers for Asian American professionals. apiNXT events have included renowned speakers such as California Treasurer John Chiang and California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu as well as innovation & diversity leaders from tech companies such as Humana, Symantec, LinkedIn, Autodesk, Uber, Intel, Lyft, Capital One, UC Davis Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford, Center for Innovation Leadership at SRI International, Bay Area Economic Council, Greater Sacramento Economic Council, Startups Greater Asia, DraperDragon Venture Capital, University of San Francisco, KPMG, FWD.us, StartOut, Plug and Play.

Ms. Danielsson also served on the board of directors of the Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association (APAPA), an organization dedicated to empowerment of the API community through active engagement in civic and public affairs, from 2011-2016.  In 2012, she received the annual volunteer recognition award for her contributions to the organization and in 2015 she received the Board Member of the Year Award.  Ms. Danielsson was chair of the organization's annual Voters Forum in 2015 which explored topics regarding breaking the barriers to API advancement in politics with distinguished panelists from both the federal and state legislatures; Ms. Danielsson formed a grassroots coalition of over 40 diverse ethnic organizations which resulted in the largest, most diverse and inclusive attendance in the 14 year history of the forum. Speakers included: CA State Treasurer John Chiang, US Congressmember Ted Lieu, CA Senators Jim Nielsen and Richard Pan, CA Assemblymembers Jim Cooper, David Chiu, Ling-Ling Chiang, Evan Low, Young Kim, Mariko Yamada.