Leadership
**Marshall Phelps
Vice President of IP Strategy & Business, Microsoft Corp and IBM (ret); 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
*Adam Mossoff
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and Visiting Fellow the Heritage Foundation. Leading expert on IP 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.
* Board of Directors
** Advisory Board