
Alan Schoenbaum is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Rackspace and leads our legal team. Prior to joining
Rackspace in 2005, he served as a partner of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in San Antonio, Texas, where he led the corporate
and securities law section. Schoenbaum has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and securities law, and throughout his
legal career has represented public and private growth companies, venture capital funds and their portfolio companies. Schoenbaum
was named to the 2005-2006 edition of
The Best Lawyers in America.
Schoenbaum received a B.A. and J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the American
Bar Association and the San Antonio Bar Association.

The first annual kickoff I attended in 2006. It was amazing.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

1969 Fiat 124 Spider Convertible. I sold it after two months and got a 1969 Ford F100 pickup. Great truck — no air conditioning, four
on the floor, 8-track, straight six. I used it to haul my dirt bike and Lone Star kegs.