Professional Summary: This Ph.D. is an experienced consulting technologist, economist, and attorney with a multidisciplinary practice representing clients in litigation, negotiation, growth, technology assessment,merger, and regulatory settings. His expertise includes valuing intellectual property and other asset classes; assessing damages and royalties; evaluating and deploying patents, products, digital copyrights, and technologies; devising growth strategies; drafting licenses,contracts, and patents; determining and predicting competitive effects and market responses; modeling and analyzing complex data; assembling and managing cross-functional teams; facilitating communication among engineering,management, and legal teams; marketing and cultivating client relationships;teaching, research, and public speaking; publishing books and articles on technology, business, and law. Career highlights include:
§ Devising and implementing a strategy that secured a seven figure patent settlement for small inventor.
§ Enabling divestiture of an asset blocking a merger valued over fifty billion dollars, securing clearance for the deal.
§ Obliterating plaintiff’s damage theory in litigation, reducing client defendant’s exposure by 99%.
§ Altering major oil company’s approach and behavior in political risk assessment.
§ Securing an assessment of zero damages for unindicted co-conspirator in a complex price-fixing case. |
Additional Information: Certificate of Mediation, University of California
J.D. (magna cum laude), Georgetown University Law Center
Ph.D., Computer Science, Columbia University
M.S., Computer Science, Columbia University
B.A., Computer Science and Mathematics, Columbia University |