The 8th Annual Corporate IP Counsel

2016 Speaking Faculty

Brian Batzli
CEO and Managing Partner
Merchant & Gould, PC

Jeffrey Berkowitz
Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

David Bomzer
Patent Counsel
Aetna

Bryan W. Butler
IP Counsel Sys Networking
IBM Research - Almaden Center

Tanzina Chowdhury
Patent Counsel
Entegris

David L. Cohen
Chief Legal and Intellectual Property Officer
Vringo

Lawrence Cruz
Chief Patent Counsel
Conair Corporation

David Cunningham
V.P. & Assistant General Counsel, Director of Intellectual Property and Privacy Law
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

Colm J. Dobbyn
Group Executive and Associate General Counsel
MasterCard

Anna Erenburg
Senior Counsel, Business and Legal Affairs
Fuse Media, Inc.

Erik Feig
General Counsel
Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc.

Martin Galese
General Counsel
FormLabs Inc.

Jason Grauch
Senior IP Counsel
Broadcom, Ltd.

Burch A. Harper
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel
Rambus Inc.

Magdalena Jablonski
Senior IP Counsel
Robert Bosch LLC

Kim R. Jessum Esq.
Chief IP Counsel U.S. and Associate General Counsel
Heraeus Incorporated

David Joyal
Director and Senior Patent Counsel
Avon Products, Inc.

Keir Loiacono
Director of Intellectual Property
Advaxis, Inc.

Charles R. Macedo
Partner
Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP

Phil Makrogiannis
Chief IP Counsel – Life Sciences Solutions
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Leila Kaplus Marcovici
Associate
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto

Valencia Martin Wallace
Deputy Commissioner for Patent Quality
USPTO

Rachel Mears
Senior Patent Counsel, Global IP Law
PepsiCo, Inc.

Mita Mukherjee
Senior Corporate Counsel
MedImmune

Viviana Mura
Intellectual Property Law Counsel
Luxottica Group

Gregory Pan
Associate Principal Counsel
Marvel Entertainment LLC

Richard Parr
Counsel
Merck

Kim R. Jessum, Esq.
Chief IP Counsel U.S. and Associate General Counsel
Heraeus Incorporated

Todd Rands
Associate General Counsel – Strategic Licensing and IP, Growth Ventures, Global Biologicals Monsanto

Sean Reilly
General Counsel
Askeladden LLC
Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel
The Clearing House Payments Company LLC

George Romanik
Associate General Counsel, IP
Chemtura

Ainslee Schreiber
Vice President & Associate General Counsel - Global Trademark Group
Starwood Hotels & Resorts

Jeffrey M. Sears, PhD, JD
Associate General Counsel and Chief Patent Counsel
Columbia University

Nick Shipp
Partner
Kilburn & Strode LLP

Nick Soter
Territory Director
Anaqua

Rodney L. Sparks, JD, PhD
Senior Biotechnology Patent Counsel
University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group

Anne Louise St. Martin
Patent Counsel
Colgate-Palmolive Company

Robert H. Tiller
Vice President & Assistant General Counsel
Red Hat, Inc.

Stan Torgovitsky
Member
Dickinson Wright

Patrick Turner
Vice President, Assistant General Counsel
CBS Law Department

Brad Waugh
Managing Counsel
Intel Litigation Group

Richard A. Weiss
Chief IP Counsel
NCR Corporation

Michael M. Yamauchi, PhD
Director, Patent Counsel
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.