Speakers

David Brown

David Brown serves as president of IP Solutions at Thomson Reuters, Legal and is responsible for the worldwide information, software and services businesses covering patents, trademarks and standards. Mr Brown was most recently executive vice president of corporate markets at Thomson Reuters Scientific.
During his 22-year career in the information industry, Mr Brown has held a variety of senior management roles, including executive vice president and general manager of Dialog.
Mr Brown holds BAs in history and computer applications from the University of Notre Dame and received his MBA from the University of North Carolina. He also serves on the board of the National Federation of Advanced Information Services.

David Descoteaux

David Descoteaux joined Lazard in 1999 in the technology, media and telecommunications group and is currently a managing director in the restructuring group. Prior to joining Lazard, Mr Descoteaux was a generalist in the M&A group at Deutsche Bank Securities and was employed at Andec Investments, a private investment management firm.
At Lazard, Mr Descoteaux has worked on a variety of restructuring, M&A, and special/independent committee assignments. Financial advisory assignments for clients include Eastman Kodak, Nortel, Cemex, Lehman Brothers, Abitibi Bowater, Satmex, SunGard, SpectraSite, Genuity, Hughes, Affiliated Computer Services, Adelphia, Publicis, Catalina Marketing, DoubleClick, Cap Gemini, the National Football League, Ceridian, InfoUSA, Education Management, AppNet, ACT Manufacturing, SMTC and Pirelli.
Mr Descoteaux obtained an AB in mathematics and economics with honours (Phi Beta Kappa) from Colby College and an MBA with honours from the University of Chicago.

Brian Hinman

Brian Hinman has over 25 years’ experience in the field of intellectual property and has held various senior executive positions with Fortune 50 companies.
He has created and executed complex IP strategies, negotiated hundreds of patent and technology licensing agreements, conducted patent divestitures and acquisitions, been involved in the creation and spin-off of high-tech-based start-up entities, performed numerous IP-based valuations and served as chief executive officer (CEO) of a very unique patent defensive entity.
Currently, Mr Hinman is vice president of intellectual property and licensing at InterDigital Communications, LLC. He was formerly vice president of intellectual property and licensing at Verizon Communications Inc and was the founding CEO and president of Allied Security Trust.
In addition, Mr Hinman held various senior executive positions at IBM, including vice president of intellectual property and licensing. Before working at IBM, he was director of licensing at Westinghouse.

Peter Holden

Peter Holden set up the IP investment group at Coller Capital (a global private equity firm with over US$8.5 billion under management) in 2006 and has overseen the acquisition and monetisation of thousands of patents from corporations and research centres in the United States, Europe, Korea and China. He continues to explore and execute on new investment models and structures for leveraging intellectual property as a financial asset class in private equity. He formerly held senior positions at: Panasonic; IPVALUE Management; University Patents, Inc and Invisible Hand LLC – a $US50 million IP venturing fund that he founded. He holds post-doctoral, PhD and undergraduate degrees from the United Kingdom and Japan. He was a senior fellow at Wharton Business School in IP exploitation and innovation and was awarded the Honda Fellowship at Tokyo University in technology transfer. He has advised the UK, US and Korean governments on IP monetisation and investment.

Kenan Jarboe

Kenan Jarboe is the president of Athena Alliance, a non-profit research organisation in the vanguard of identifying, understanding, analysing and educating on the information, intangibles and innovation (i3 or i-cubed) economy, which now drives economic prosperity and wealth creation (www.athenaalliance.org). He also edits the Intangible Economy blog (www.intangibleeconomy.org).
Dr Jarboe received his PhD in sociotechnological planning and his BS in engineering from the University of Michigan. He has served in a number of senior staff positions for the US Senate, including as chief economist for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, and is the author of numerous publications on economic competitiveness, corporate strategy, international trade and technology policy.
He has also served an assistant professor of technology management at the University of Maryland, University College and an adjunct professor of international business at Georgetown University.

Denise Kerstein

Denise Kerstein manages patent sales and acquisitions in the IP licensing organisation at Hewlett-Packard (HP). She is responsible for monetising HP’s patent portfolio and acquiring strategic open-market portfolios.
Ms Kerstein began her career in IP licensing with ARM and other firms marketing and selling processors, audio/video subsystems, interconnect and memory cores to a diverse set of semiconductor companies and original equipment manufacturers. Before her business roles, Ms Kerstein designed networking chips and managed engineering teams at AMD and National Semiconductor.
Ms Kerstein graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, San Diego with a BS in electrical engineering. She is an inventor with 19 US patents in the area of networking technology.

Sherry M Knowles

Sherry M Knowles is an IP attorney with over 20 years of experience. From 2006 to 2010 Ms Knowles was senior vice president and chief patent counsel at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where she served as the worldwide head of patents for litigation and transactional matters, and managed a global department of over 200 people in 12 offices. At GSK, Ms Knowles was a member of the scientific advisory board, the technology investment board, the product management board and the legal management team, and she led the global patents executive team.
In 2010 the New Jersey Intellectual Property Lawyers Association awarded Ms Knowles, as the representative of GSK, the Jefferson Medal for exceptional contribution to intellectual property. In the same year Ms Knowles launched Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies (www.kipsllc.com), which provides strategic legal and business advice to companies developing, commercialising, litigating and monetising assets, with a focus on pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and chemical inventions.

Michael Lennon

Michael Lennon is chair of Kenyon & Kenyon's European practice group. He focuses his practice on the litigation and licensing of IP rights, technology transfer transactions and the negotiation of patent, trademark and copyright contracts and agreements.
Mr Lennon has more than two decades of experience representing multinational corporations in the automotive, computer, electronics, healthcare and information systems industries in IP lawsuits and transactions. Some of these include Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd, Goss International Americas Inc, IMI plc, MANN+HUMMEL GmbH, Marconi plc, Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz USA Inc, Robert Bosch GmbH and Robert Bosch Corporation.
He is an author and frequent speaker on IP litigation and licensing issues, and his contributions as a leading IP attorney have been recognised in, among other publications, Intellectual Asset Management's IAM 250 – The World's Leading IP Strategists and IAM 250 – The World's Leading Patent & Technology Licensing Lawyers, and the Legal 500.

Terry Ludlow

Terry Ludlow is founder, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Chipworks. He is a recognised pioneer in semiconductor reverse engineering and was among the first to realise its value for IP groups.
Mr Ludlow founded Chipworks in 1992 to offer semiconductor and microelectronics system reverse engineering services and patent infringement analysis to companies involved in licensing negotiations and litigations. As CEO, he continues to provide the strategy, vision and driving force that have earned Chipworks its position as the premier source of knowledge of what's inside technology.

Mike McLean

Mike McLean is senior vice president IP rights and professional services at UBM TechInsights and heads up the organisation’s IP practice. Prior to this role, Mr McLean’s technical and management posts included vice president IP services at Semiconductor Insights, director of intellectual property, patent analyst, account manager and IP operations manager. He led the creation of the patent development business unit within Semiconductor Insights.
Mr McLean has also worked extensively with the technology practices of major law firms, the in-house corporate counsel teams of key technology companies and external licensing agencies.
Mr McLean holds a bachelor of science, engineering with first-class honours from Queens University and is a licensed member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario. In recognition of his strong technical and business acumen, he has served as a witness in several IP suits on behalf of UBM TechInsights’ clients.

Ross Morgan

Ross Morgan has over 15 years’ experience of leading the development and commercialisation of new technologies within AEA Technology, Accentus and now CompactGTL. This has included establishing major development, pilot plant and licence agreements within the automotive, energy and oil and gas industry sectors.
At CompactGTL Mr Morgan has been responsible for the core technology development, which has included leading the catalyst development programme, establishing key strategic partnerships and managing the company’s IP and commercial activities.
Mr Morgan has a BSc and PhD in chemistry from the University of Bristol and a diploma in business administration from the University of Warwick Business School.

Ruud Peters

Ruud Peters was appointed chief executive officer of Philips Intellectual Property & Standards in 1999, in which position he is responsible for managing Philips' worldwide IP portfolio creation and value extraction activities. He is also responsible for technical and formal standardisation activities in the fields of consumer lifestyle, healthcare, lighting and technology.
He joined Philips Intellectual Property & Standards in 1977 and became director responsible for licensing in 1990. He participated in standards bodies such as the International Organisation for Standardisation and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, where he was active in the formulation of IP policies. Currently, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards has about 450 people working in 16 countries around the world.
Mr Peters is also a board member of three technology/IP licensing/trading companies. He has a background in physics. Mr Peters was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame in 2010.

John  Pryor

John Pryor is managing director Europe at ICAP Patent Brokerage and heads up Europe for both the private brokerage and live IP auction platforms. ICAP Patent Brokerage is owned by ICAP, a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Before joining ICAP, Mr Pryor was vice president at CPA Global. At CPA Global he was responsible for developing and executing programmes to help clients to align their IP portfolios with their corporate strategies and to realise substantial economic benefits and returns on their IP investments. He also served as a strategy consultant at Accenture and as sales and marketing manager with Procter & Gamble.
He has an extensive knowledge of IP strategy. He has an MBA from Warwick Business School and a BSc (Hons) from Kings College, University of London.

John  Squires

John A Squires is co-chair of Chadbourne & Parke’s IP practice and has significant international experience in intellectual property. He advises on all aspects of intellectual property, including patents, branding and trademark issues, operational and technology matters, and licensing transactions and investment due diligence, and has worked on numerous large-scale patent infringement litigation and technology matters.
Mr Squires' experience includes founding the patent practice at Goldman Sachs, where he created one of the premier IP platforms in the financial services industry. He has also worked with both houses of Congress and the regulatory community to bring about long-needed improvements in US patent law. He has filed numerous amicus briefs with the US Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and is widely recognised in the financial services and technology sectors as one of the country's top experts on the subject of patent-eligible technologies.

John Veschi

John Veschi built and led the team behind the historic Nortel patent auction. His three-year tenure as chief IP officer (CIPO) and president of Nortel’s IP business marked a transformation of Nortel IP into a world-class IP team that preserved and created billions of dollars of value through the Nortel bankruptcy process. With the recent conclusion of this industry-altering transaction, Mr Veschi and his team are now part of the Rockstar Consortium – the group that prevailed in the Nortel auction.
Before joining Nortel, Mr Veschi was CIPO and general manager of the IP business for LSI and Agere. He previously worked in private practice with Foley & Lardner and holds BSEE, MBA and JD degrees. Prior to his legal career, Mr Veschi was a US Army officer and a manager for a defence contractor. He also serves on the Board of Mosaid Technologies Inc.

Ben Wolff

Chief executive officer (CEO) and president of Pendrell Corporation since December 2009, Ben Wolff previously served on its board of directors from 2005 to 2008.
Mr Wolff was a co-founder of Clearwire Corporation, where he also served as a member of the board of directors, as executive vice president, company president, co-CEO, CEO and finally co-chairman, a position he held until March 2010. At Clearwire, Mr Wolff completed transactions in excess of US$10 billion in value, including strategic transactions with AT&T, Bell Canada, Comcast, Google, Intel, Motorola, Sprint Nextel and Time Warner Cable.
A former partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, he focused on mergers and acquisitions, IP licensing, corporate finance and strategic partnerships. He co-chaired the firm’s business transactions department and served on the firm’s executive committee.
In 2003, he was identified as one of the top 45 lawyers under the age of 45 by The American Lawyer magazine.

Jimmy Zhong

Jimmy Zhong joined Philips in 2000, following which he was appointed general manager of Philips Digital System Lab in China and then deputy general manager of ChinaCrypt, Philips’ joint venture. In May 2005, Mr Zhong became responsible for standardisation and in September 2006 became the head of Philips Intellectual Property & Standards China, in charge of all IP-related activities in both mainland China and Hong Kong.
Mr Zhong has a master’s in electronics engineering from the University of Science & Technology in China, and a master’s in physics from Simon Fraser University in Canada. Before joining Philips, he had more than 10 years of industry experience in the optical storage arena.