Leadership

*Marshall Phelps

Ex-Vice President of IP Strategy & Business, Microsoft Corp and IBM; charter member IP Hall of Fame; visiting professor and lecturer Cornell, Duke and USC

*Brian Hinman

Chief Innovation Officer, AON IP Solutions; ex-Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Philips; Vice President IP, Verizon; Vice President IP and Licensing, IBM; executive-advisor, Columbia University Technology Ventures

*Keith Bergelt

CEO, Open Invention Network; former IP strategy executive, Motorola and SRI International; Managing Partner, Paradox Capital; former career diplomat, U.S. State Department

*Manny Schecter

Chief Patent Counsel, IBM; Past-President, IPO Association Education Foundation

*Mickie Voges-Piatt

Co-Director IP Management & Markets Program, Illinois Institute of Technology; Deputy Director, Program in IP Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law

*Bruce Berman (Chairman)

Author and editor responsible for five IP business books; IP communications expert; IAM 300 Leading Strategist (10 years); member, IP Hall of Fame Academy; CEO, Brody Berman Associates (31 years)

Harry Gwinnell

Former Chief IP Counsel Cargill, Eastman Chemical, United Technologies; ex-President IPO Education Foundation; ex-USPTO examiner (CIPU Director Emeritus)

Irv Rappaport

Ex-Chief IP Counsel Apple, Medtronic, National Semiconductor; successful inventor with 20+ patents; former USTPO examiner; retired US Army officer

Jonathan Taplin

Film producer (“Mean Streets,” “The Last Waltz”), Director Emeritus, the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

**James Pooley

Trade secrets trial lawyer, scholar and diplomat; Deputy Director General, WIPO, ret; Director, Inventor Hall of Fame; author

**Hon. Paul R. Michel

Chief Judge and Member of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, ret.