Board of Directors
PETER ACKERMAN , President and CEO, Innovation Asset
JACK TODARO is President of Performance Improvement Associates, a national management consulting firm dedicated to helping companies improve productivity, profits and shareholder wealth. Jack specializes in strategy development and execution, organizational change and restructuring, financial restructuring, implementation of measurement and accountability systems, mergers and acquisitions, and capital formation.
DONALD VANLUVANEE was President and CEO of ElectroScientific Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESIO) from 1992 until his retirement in 2002. ESI is a leading provider of high-tech manufacturing equipment to the global electronics market. He has served as a director of nanotech tools company FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) since November 1995, and is a director of Micro Component Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of integrated automation solutions for the global semiconductor test and assembly industry. Donald also serves on other corporate and university advisory boards.
Advisory Board
WILLIAM CAMPBELL is a senior partner at Ater Wynne LLP, a law firm with offices in Portland, Seattle and Silicon Valley. He currently serves as general counsel to both public and private emerging growth companies in the high tech and biotechnology fields. William has particular experience in international transactions involving intellectual property-based goods, software and services, and with joint ventures, performing research and development to bring ideas and products to market.
JIM JOHNSON is the CEO of Tripwire, a leading change audit technology company located in Portland, Oregon. Previously, Jim spent 27 years with Intel Corp in many roles including the Oregon Site Manager, Vice President of the Technology & Manufacturing Group, General Manager of the Internet Service Operation, Director of Marketing for the Internet and Communications Group, and co-founder of Intel PCEO (Intel’s retail products group, which he grew to over $500M in sales). Jim is a member of numerous boards and professional organizations, and has unparalleled strategic leadership experience.
JOHN KELLY serves in multiple business strategy roles at Symantec Corp., among them directing many aspects of their intellectual property strategy. His duties include aligning Symantecs IP portfolio with their long term business goals. He also created their patent acquisition strategy and process and analyzes IP as part of Symantec's M&A activity. Previous roles in the software industry (at Symantec, Microsoft, Veritas, a small Microsoft VAR, and in private consulting) included product management, business development and alliances, deal development and negotiation, product marketing, product strategy, and competitive strategy. As the Director of Windows Platform Strategy at Veritas, John was responsible for strategic planning for platform expansion for Veritas storage management and high availability products on Windows.
BOB KOHN is Chairman & CEO of RoyaltyShare, Inc., the premier provider of digital revenue and royalty solutions for the record industry, music publishers, book publishers, and motion picture distributors. Previously, he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL) where he also served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Bob founded EMusic.com, Inc., the pioneering MP3 music-download subscription service, where he served as Chairman until the company was sold to Vivendi/Universal in June 2001. He served as Vice President of Business Development for Pretty Good Privacy, Inc., a leading encryption software company, and was Corporate Counsel for Ashton-Tate, a software company, and Associate General Counsel of Candle Corporation, a mainframe software developer.
DAVID MCFEETERS-KRONE is President of Intellectual Assets Inc., based in Portland, Oregon. He is an intellectual property (IP) consultant, providing services to corporations and entrepreneurs, as well as governmental and university research and technology transfer organizations. He assists with the development and management of effective IP strategies, inventorying and analyzing IP portfolios, gathering and staying abreast of competitive intelligence, technology re-positioning, training, and identifying and negotiating technology licensing opportunities. He is a member of the Licensing Executives Society and is published by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).
RUSSELL PARR is an internationally recognized expert in the field of intellectual property and intangible asset valuation. He founded the Licensing Economics Review and is President of Intellectual Property Research Associates, Inc. (IPRA). He has conducted valuation and royalty rate studies in the areas of communications technology, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor process technology, lasers, agricultural formulations, biotechnology, computer software and medical products technology, and others. Russell was retained to value the Dr. Seuss copyrights and the AT&T patent portfolio. Additionally, he is a featured speaker in various countries under the sponsorship of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which administers international intellectual property treaties, and is a sought-after expert witness on IP infringement damages. Russell has authored and co-authored numerous books and publications on intellectual property valuation.
PETER SLATE is the President & Chief Executive Officer of International Orthopedic Alliance, Inc. (IOA). Prior to joining IOA, he was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arizona Technology Enterprises, LLC (AzTE), a leading technology commercialization and investment company for Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and other affiliated research institutions. While with AzTE, Peter founded over 20 companies and entered into more than 80 joint venture and licensing transaction. Peter has extensive experience as an entrepreneur and advisor to start-up and emerging companies. He has also held senior executive positions with a number of public and private companies, including Baxter International Inc., Zenith Electronics, Inc. and Primecare International, Inc. Peter was also a corporate attorney with the law firm of Katten, Muchin and Zavis in Chicago where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, securities and private equity transactions. He is active in LES where he was Co-Chairman of the Chicago Chapter from 2003 to 2005. Peter has been an invited speaker at more than 50 national conferences on subjects including early stage technology investing, structuring joint ventures, and technology valuation.
Executive Management Team
