Evan Epstein

Evan Epstein is the executive director of the Center for Business Law and Adjunct Professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, and the founder and managing partner of Pacifica Global, a governance advisory firm based in San Francisco, California.

Evan is a corporate governance expert and has advised founders, executives, directors and investors for over 15 years in Silicon Valley and internationally. He has also been retained as an expert in corporate governance litigation both in the U.S. and abroad, particularly involving fiduciary duties of directors in venture-backed companies. He was appointed executive director of the Center for Business Law, and adjunct professor of law, at the University of California Hastings in 2020. Evan is also the founder and managing partner of Pacifica Global, a corporate governance advisory firm based in San Francisco, California. Before joining UC Hastings, he was the executive director of the Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance, a joint initiative between Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.