John M. Benassi, Program Co-Chair, is a partner at Paul, Hastings,
Janofsky & Walker LLP in the Litigation Department specializing in
intellectual property law. He represents clients in State and Federal
Courts in matters of intellectual property and in technologies ranging
from Internet commerce to semiconductors to medical devices to
biotechnology.
Daniel C. Minteer, Program Co-Chair, of Pillsbury Winthrop LLP is a
partner and member of the Intellectual Property Group. His practice
focuses on resolving disputes and structuring the transactions that often
result from the resolution of those disputes in the areas of Intellectual
Property and Finance. He represents clients in patent infringement, trade
dress, trade secret and trademark litigation.
Wayne B. Brown is the Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Quest
Diagnostics, Incorporated.
Catherine F. de Madrid is a Director at KPMG’s San Francisco office.
Ms. de Madrid has Intellectual Asset Management (“IAM”) experience
in a variety of strategic and tactical areas, including identifying scenarios
for commercializing innovations, portfolio mining, patent clustering, and
technology scoring relative to external licensing prospects as well as
identifying potential licensees in core and non-core industries.
Carl Eibl, a member of the investment team at Enterprise Partners
Venture Capital is the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to joining Enterprise Partners he served as President and CEO of
Maxwell Technologies a publicly held high technology electronics
company.
Michael S. Kagnoff is a shareholder at Heller Ehrman White &
McAuliffe LLP. His practice focuses on general corporate representation
of established and emerging technology companies with an emphasis on
communication, networking and the Internet, as well as, medical device
companies. He has extensive experience in public offerings, mergers and
acquisitions, venture capital financing, strategic partnerships and
licensing agreements.
Robert (Russ) O’Haver, Vice President at the National Economic
Research Associates, Inc. (NERA), is a noted expert in intellectual
property matters providing services including strategy/monetization,
litigation, transfer pricing and valuation with clients in the legal, tax and
intellectual property fields.
Michael G. Rhodes is a litigation partner in the firm of Cooley
Godward LLP. He is a founding partner of the office and served for many
years as head of the office’s Litigation Department. He currently serves
on the firm’s Marketing Committee. His practice focuses on business
litigation which has involved software, embedded systems, medical
devices and other technologies.
Thomas R. Rouse, of QUALCOMM, Inc., is Senior Patent Counsel and
Patent Portfolio Manager. He is responsible for reading, categorizing,
and technology mapping of the company’s several thousand patents and
applications.
Mark S. Walker is Group Counsel, Intellectual Property Law for Gateway, Inc. He has worldwide responsibility for patent, copyright, and
trade secret acquisition and exploitation as well as domain name
management and FCC compliance. Prior to joining Gateway, he spent
over ten years as an attorney for IBM responsible for patent and
licensing activities in the computer graphics, operating system and
microkernel technologies.
Katherine White is a Principal at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital. She manages technical and intellectual property due diligence prior to investment by the firm. Once invested, Ms. White oversees the intellectual property strategies for the firm’s high tech and biotech investments. She is a registered patent attorney.
Christopher J. Woolley is the founding Senior Vice President and
Regional Manager of Comerica Bank’s Technology and Life Sciences
Division in the Pacific Southwest. Additionally, he leads the national
Life Science initiative. The Technology and Life Science Division serves
venture capital-backed early stage technology and life sciences companies
as well as their more mature counterparts.
Troy Zander, a partner at GrayCary, is in the firm’s Corporate &
Securities Practice Group. His areas of expertise are debt finance, loan
documentation/workouts insolvency/creditor rights and remedies. |
