President & Chair David Gulley, University of Illinois at Chicago
David Gulley joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1989 and provides leadership to promote innovation-driven economic development, including academic-industry collaborations, research engagements, technology transfer and commercialization. He currently holds the title of Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research at UIC.
Dr. Gulley is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and serves on the CLP Board of Governors, and as Board President and Chair for 2011-2012. He also serves as the Vice President for Professional Development for the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM); co-chair of the Life Sciences Practice Group for the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce Chicago; and on BIO’s Technology Transfer Committee.
Gulley holds an M.A. in Science Education from Virginia Tech, a B.A. in Political Science and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Southern Illinois University.
Vice-President & Vice Chair Paul Stewart, Eli Lilly and Company
For over 20 years of his nearly 25-year career at Eli Lilly and Company, Paul A. Stewart has served in various deal leadership roles including: crop protection (agrichemicals); medical devices / vascular intervention (cardiology and urology); drug infusion (hospital intravenous pumps, plus vital signs measurement products); corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and currently in the $1.5B+ Elanco Animal Health division of Lilly (animal health & human food safety).
He currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Certified Licensing Professionals™ organization and the Advisory Board of DePauw University's Management Fellows Program; and as a distinguished lecturer for the Graduate Program of International Pharmaceutical Engineering Management (IPEM) at Peking University in Beijing, China. He has served as a director of the Indianapolis Legal Aid Society (from 2004-2010); has served as president of the Board of Airport Commissioners for Greensburg-Decatur County (1980-81 and 1983) and the Indiana Seed Trade Association (1984); as chairman of the IVAC (1993) and Elanco (1999 and 2007) United Way campaigns; and as a member of the Board of Directors and Trusteeship (executive) Committee of Park Tudor School in Indianapolis (from 1997-2003) and the Board of Directors of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association (from 1999-2003).
Stewart is a Certified Licensing Professional™, is listed in “Who’s Who in America,” “Who’s Who in the World” and “Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare,” and is the author of “A Harvard MBA’s Advice to His Sons” (ISBN 1594539952).
Stewart received a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural business management in 1976 from Purdue University, and a master of business administration degree from Harvard University School of Business in 1987.
Treasurer François Painchaud, Leger Robic Richard, L.L.P.
Mr. François Painchaud was called to the Québec Bar in 1986 and has been a partner of ROBIC, LLP for more than 15 years. He leads the Business Law group and specializes in the negotiation and drafting of technology transfers, joint ventures and in corporate and commercial law, including venture capital financing and mergers and acquisitions. He has developed a particular expertise in commercial transactions where intellectual property is at the foreground. He participates in the negotiation and drafting of various commercial contracts such as licensing and research and development agreements.
Mr. Painchaud is a Past President of the Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada), Inc. and was a member of its board of directors from 2001 to 2010. He is currently Counsel to the Board of the Licensing Executives Society International. He sits on the board of directors and is treasurer of Certified Licensing Professionals (CLP). He is Director and Secretary General of the Canadian Louis Pasteur Foundation, Corporate secretary of the Québec Consortium for Drug Discovery (CQDM) and was director and secretary of Axcan Pharma inc. until March 2008. François also serves on the board of directors of various private companies involved in high technology sectors.
He has been recognized by his peers as one of the leading lawyers in technology transfers for several years (ref. Lexpert legal magazine). He was also recognized in 2010 as one of the 250 most influential people in IP by IAM (international magazine on the "intellectual asset management").
Secretary Michael Lee, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein, & Fox, P.L.L.C.
Michael Q Lee is a director with Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC, a Washington DC-based IP specialty law firm. His practice focuses on working with clients to strategically patent and license their inventions in the United States and throughout the world.
Mr. Lee is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and an experienced IP transactions attorney. Mr. Lee is a vice president of the Licensing Executives Society (USA/Canada). He is a board member and Secretary of the CLP board of governors. In 2011, he was recognized by IAM as a leading patent & technology licensing attorney, and IP strategist.
Mr. Lee earned his law degree from Georgetown University, and holds master and bachelor degrees in electrical engineering from the Universities of Maryland and Virginia, respectively. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.
Governors
Allen Baum, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
Allen is also the chair of the Chemical Practice Group at Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, serves on the firm’s board of directors and is the managing shareholder of the firm's Research Triangle Park, N.C. office. Allen’s work includes freedom-to-operate studies, due diligence review, infringement/validity studies, licensing, paragraph IV litigation, reexamination, and patent preparation/prosecution in the areas of chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biochemistry, biotechnology and medical devices. Allen has successfully testified as an expert witness in patent and licensing matters before a jury.
With nearly 20 years of experience as a patent attorney, Allen was president of the Licensing Executives Society, USA & Canada, in 2006-2007 and chair/president of the Board of Governors for Certified Licensing Professionals (CLP) in 2010-2011.
He holds a J.D. from Widener University School of Law, and a B.S. in chemistry from Muhlenberg College.
Timothy Howe, Sanofi Pasteur
Tim has worked for Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, for over 14 years. His current position is Vice President, Legal Affairs, General Counsel and Head, Acquisitions and Licensing Transactions. He and his team provide legal support for M&A and complex licensing transactions, the most recent of which involved the acquisition by Sanofi Pasteur Inc. of Topaz Pharmaceuticals, a small, privately held pharmaceutical company based in Horsham, PA.
Tim has served as Articles Editor for the American Intellectual Property Law Association and is currently a Chapter Editor for the 2011 ABA-IPL Annual Review of Intellectual Property. He is a long-standing member of AIPLA, ACC, LES, and ABA. He is a member of the Business, Anti-Trust, International and Intellectual Property law divisions of ABA and is particularly active in the International and IP divisions. He is also a member of the Biopharmaceutical Law Committee of BIO.
Tim is registered to practice before the USPTO and is a member of the bars of MA, CA and PA, and the US District Court for the Southern District of California.
Tim received his BS in Microbiology from the Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D., also in Microbiology, from the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center (since renamed the Oregon Health and Sciences University) in Portland, Oregon. He attended the University of San Diego School of Law, where he graduated cum laude, order of the coif, and served as Executive Editor of the San Diego Law Review.
Katharine Ku, Stanford University
Katharine Ku is Director of the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) at Stanford University. OTL is responsible for the licensing of various state-of-the-art university technologies and industry sponsored research agreements, material transfer agreements and collaborations.
Ku has been active in the Licensing Executive Society (LES), serving as Vice President, Western Region and Trustee of LES and various committee chairs. She also has served as President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) from 1988-90. She received the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university licensing. In 1999, Stanford OTL received the Licensing Executives Society Achievement Award for licensing, the Society’s most prestigious award.
Ku was a member of the National Academy of Sciences committee which issued the report entitled Management of University Intellectual Property: Lessons from a Generation of Experience, Research, and Dialogue. She is a Board of Governors member of the Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) organization and a member of the Board of Directors of BIO.
Ku has a B.S. Chemical Engineering (Cornell University), an M.S. in Chemical Engineering (Washington University in St. Louis) and is a registered patent agent.
Malcolm Kaus
Malcolm (Mal) J. Kaus, retired from ExxonMobil as Upstream Intellectual Property Process and Licensing Manager where he had responsibility for all ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company’s work processes and procedures for the acquisition, maintenance, assertion and defense of its Intellectual Property. As Licensing Manager, Dr. Kaus was also responsible for all licensing transactions impacting ExxonMobil’s Upstream business. He was also responsible for Intellectual Property aspects of Commercial Agreements, Joint Developments and Joint Industry Programs, as well as dispute resolution and enforcement issues. In his previous assignment Dr. Kaus was the Licensing Manager and Intellectual Property Process Manager for ExxonMobil Chemical Company.
He is the inventor of a number of patents in the areas of polyolefin catalysis and polypropylene. Dr. Kaus is also a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP™) and serves on the CLP Board of Governors.
He is a summa cum laude graduate of Washington and Jefferson College with honors in Chemistry and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. Dr. Kaus earned his Doctorate in Chemistry from Brown University. He also holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston.
Laurent Mieville, University of Geneva
Laurent Miéville is the Founder and Director of Unitec, the Technology Transfer Office of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Unitec serves three independent research Institutions in all matters related to commercial evaluation of research results, negotiation of technology licensing deals (including spin-off creation) and industry sponsored research collaborations.
Laurent served from 2007 to 2009 as President the Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals - ASTP, which groups more than 600 professionals active in 32 countries.
Following a six month leave of absence spent at Boston University, he recently co-authored with Prof. Georges Haour, of IMD business school, a book about technology transfer (“From Science to Business – How Firms Create Value by partnering with Universities”).
Laurent holds several degrees in Physics (M.Sc., Ph.D.) as well as in economics (MBA) and spent more than ten years in research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Geneva and Stanford University (USA).
Kevin Nachtrab, Johnson & Johnson
Kevin Nachtrab is a Senior IP Attorney for Johnson & Johnson. In 2011, he was elected President-Elect of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI), having served as a Vice President of LESI from 2007-2010. Kevin is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) and of the Expert Group of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Center for Arbitration and Mediation, in addition to the Board of Governors of the Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc.
A Registered Patent Attorney and a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP), Kevin is also a member of the Bars of the State of Maryland (U.S.A.), the United States District Court for the State of Maryland, the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, the United States Tax Court and the United States Bankruptcy Court.
Kevin is a graduate of Western Maryland University where he studied Chemistry, Biology and Political Science and the School of Law of the University of Baltimore.
Robin Rasor, University of Michigan
As Director of Licensing at the University of Michigan, Ms. Rasor oversees staff handling all functions of the licensing process at the University ranging from management and marketing of disclosures to developing and negotiating appropriate licensing terms for license agreements, and finally to maintaining and monitoring existing agreements.
A former member of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Board of Trustees as the Vice President for Planning, Ms Rasor is currently President of AUTM. She has also served on the Board of Directors, most recently as Treasurer, of the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce.
In 2005, she was awarded the President's Award for service to AUTM. In 2007, Ms. Rasor was part of the team headed by Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan honored by The American Association for Cancer Research in its first annual AACR Team Science Award. Ms. Rasor has a MS in Genetics from The Ohio State University and a BS in Bacteriology and Zoology from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Daniel Steinert, Ocean Tomo
Daniel J. Steinert is a Director at Ocean Tomo and is responsible for the company’s west coast Valuation practice. Mr. Steinert’s work has focused on valuations of intangible assets for litigation, bankruptcy, fundraising, financial reporting, acquisitions, strategy, and other issues. He has performed valuations of numerous types of intangible assets, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
Mr. Steinert holds the Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designations. He is an active member of the Licensing Executives Society, the International Trademark Association, and the CFA Society of San Francisco. Mr. Steinert currently serves on the Valuation Standards Committee for the Licensing Executives Society International and on the Board of Governors for Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc.
Mr. Steinert holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan.
