Founder and partner of Sherpa Technology Group and is based out of the firm’s San Francisco office. Prior to Sherpa Technology Group, Vice President of IP Strategy for IBM, and a Senior Advisor to The Boston Consulting Group on IP strategy. Also, the former Chairman of the USPTO oversight committee and a former member of the Board of Directors at Tessera Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSRA). Author of Rembrandts in the Attic, a widely read and foundational work on Patent Strategy, and the founder and CEO of Aurigen Systems, an IP analytics firm. In 2008, was named to the IP Hall of Fame by Intellectual Asset Management, in 2009 was named one of “The World’s Leading IP Strategists”, and in 2014 was named to the National Law Journal’s inaugural list of IP “Trailblazers and Pioneers”. He has spoken on patent strategies worldwide, including The World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. He is a registered patent attorney.