Brian Hinman

Brian Hinman is President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer of Xockets, Inc., developer of a new class of cloud processors known as advanced Data Processing. An IP Hall of Fame member, he previously served as Chief Innovation Officer at Aon Intellectual Property Solutions, where he helped lead efforts to establish market-accepted standards for assessing IP assets. He has more than 30 years of experience in the IP field and in 2023 was inducted by IAM into the IP Hall of Fame.

Brian served as chief IP officer at Philips, based in the Netherlands, where he led a worldwide team of more than 400 IP professionals in nine countries. He engaged in many forms of IP monetization, including patent, technology, and brand licensing, design patents, know-how and the formation of IP ventures. Prior to Philips, Mr. Hinman was Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Unified Patents Inc, Vice President of Intellectual Property and Licensing at IBM, Verizon, and InterDigital, and was founding CEO of Allied Security Trust.