The USIPA Board
Leadership
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Scott Frank
USIPA Chair
Venadar, (Retired) AT&T, Georgia IP Alliance, NCEIA
David Kappos
USIPA Vice Chair
Cravath, (Former) Dir USPTO
Paul Michel
USIPA Vice Chair
(Retired) Chief Justice Federal Circuit
Jamie Renee
USIPA Vice Chair
Executive Director
NAI
Nikhil Marathe
USIPA Executive Director
AT&T, ILIPA
Mike Wright
USIPA Treasurer
(Retired) Coca-Cola, GIPA
Mike Hobbs
USIPA Secretary
Troutman Pepper, GIPA
Executive Committee
Barry Brager
Perception Partners, GIPA
Bruce Berman
Brody/Berman, Center for IP Understanding
Andrei Iancu
Partner Irell & Manella, (Former) Director USPTO
Lisa Jorgenson
WIPO
Jim Malackowski
USIPA Strategy
Ocean Tomo
Mickie Piatt
Chicago Kent Law School
Russell Binns
Protectors Co-Chair
Allied Security Trust (AST)
Carlyn Burton
K-12 Education Co-Chair
Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP, Partner ; Compudopt, Co-Founder
Shubha Ghosh
University Education Co-Chair
Director, Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute
Franklin Graves
Copyright Committee Co-Chair
HCA Healthcare
Mary Guzman
Trade Secrets Co-Chair
Founder/CEO of Crown Jewel® Insurance
James Howard
Creators (Patents & Tech) Co-Chair
Black Inventors Hall of Fame
Joshua Kresh
University Education Co-Chair
Managing Director, Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2
Sara Leikin
Senior Director, National & International STEAM Partnerships, Center of Science and Industry (COSI)
Elizabeth Lester
Access & Engagement Co-Chair
Assistant General Counsel, Equifax
Lateef Mtima
Access & Engagement Co-Chair
Howard University
Chinwe Ohanele
K-12 Education Co-Chair
Director of Michelson IP
Ken Seddon
Protectors Co-Chair
License on Transfer (LOT)
Steve Susalka
Enablers Co-Chair
AUTM, National Council for Expanding American Innovation
D’Angelo Thompson
EAS Committee Co-Chair
Warren Tuttle
Creators (Patents & Tech) Co-Chair
United Inventors Assoc, NCEIA
Mauricio Uribe
State Alliances Co-Chair
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine
Mike Waring
Awareness Co-Chair
(Retired) University of Michigan
Phil Weilerstein
Enablers Co-Chair
President & CEO VentureWell
George York
EAS Committee Co-Chair
Recording Industry Association of America
Sam Zellner
USIPA Strategy | State Alliance Co-Chair
CEO InspireIP, GIPA, ILIPA
USIPA General Board
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Steve Akerley
Vice President, InterDigital
Nicholas Armington
Partner at Prince Lobel Tye LLP; (former) Special Counsel, Mintz
Daretia Austin
Trademarks, Copyrights, Online Brand Protection at AT&T
Jack Bernard
University of Michigan
Susan G Braden
Retired Judge of the US Court of Federal Clains
Josh Budwin
TXIPA
Chris Burger
DMVIPA
Jeffrey Costellia
Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP
Erwin Cruz
ILIPA, State Alliances
Megan Carpenter
Franklin Pierce School of Law
Vincent Castellucci
CEO CCC Music Industry Pro
Darryl B. Cohen
Partner at Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen, LLC
Dana Colarulli
Licensing Executive Society (LES) - International
Wallace Collins
Entertainment and IP Lawyer
James Conley
Northwestern
Nancy Conrad
Chairman, Conrad Foundation
Rory Cooper
Human Engineer Research Labs, National Science Foundation
Dennis D’Amico
President and CEO of I DO MUSIC
Arthur Daemmrich
Smithsonian-Lemelson
Carmine Denisco
President, United Inventors Association
Spondon Dey
FLIPA
Jason Domir
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Atlanta Brav
Jay Erstling
Director PCT, Director-Advisor to DG WIPO, MNIPA
Andrea Evans
Intellectual Property Attorney, Author
Holly Fechner
Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
Judith Finell
President, Judith Finell Music Services Inc.
Louis Foreman
Everyday Edisons, Inventors Digest, Enventys
Misha Ghosh
Idiyas
Vincent Garlock
American IP Law Assoc (AIPLA)
Michele Glidden
Society for Science, Program Coordinator
Lorie Goins
NCIPA
Griff Griffin
Eversheds, GIPA
Ravi Gupta
Co-Founder and COO, Tambourine Innovation Ventures
Scott Hayden
Chief IP Counsel for Amazon
Suzanne Harrison
IP Gathering
Bo Heiden
Center for IP
Brian Hinman
AON, (Former) IBM, Verizon, Phillips
Kate Hudson
Associate Vice President and Counsel, Association of American Universities
Laura Huffman
Georgia Tech, GIPA, King & Spalding
Rose James
Expedia Group
Joe Jankowski
OHIPA, State Alliances
Peggy Johnson
Film Producer, Composer, Music Supervisor
Erik Johnson
CAIPA
Chakshu Kalra
Co-founder, and Director of GreyB
Roy Kaufman
Managing Director, Business Development and Government Relations for CCC
Adam Kelly
Venable LLP
Stephen Key
Inventors Group of America
Patrick Kilbride
Public Policy Expert, Kilbride Public Affairs; (Former US Chamber)
David Korn
Vice President, PhRMA
Veronica Kormos
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Diane Gabl Kratz
Dolby Laboratories
Keith Kupferschmid
Copyright Alliance
Jessica Landacre
Intellectual Property Owners (IPO)
Sara Leikin
Senior Director, National & International STEAM Partnerships, Center of Science and Industry (COSI)
Daryl Lim
Associate Dean for Research & Innovation; Founding Director, Intellectual Property & Innovation Initiative, Penn State
Esther Lim
Partner, Finnegan
Allen Lo
Facebook
Miriam Lord
US Copyright Office
Lana Love
Celebrity Artist, Songwriter, Producer
David Lowery
Senior Lecturer at University of Georgia - Terry College of Business
Roberte Makowski
Retired Chief IP Counsel & Assistant Secretary, FMC Corp
Josh Malone
Bunch of Balloons
Alan Marco
Georgia Inst. Tech., (Former) Chief Economist USPTO
Valencia Martin-Wallace
Deputy Commissioner for Patents, USPTO
Robert S. Meloni
Partner, Meloni & McCaffrey
Dan McCurdy
RPX
Julio Mejia
International Visual Artist
Alejandro Menchaca
Attorney at McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Professor UIC John Marshall Law School
Adam Mossoff
George Mason, Forum for IP
Sam Mullman
Attorney at Wellborn & Wallace, LLC; IP Job Fair
Kathleen O'Malley
U.S. Federal Circuit Judge (Ret)
Brian O'Shaughnessy
Licensing Executive Society (LES) - US, Dinsmore & Shohl
Wayne Overstreet
Co-CEO, GO Media Productions
Austin Padgett
Partner, Troutman Pepper
David Pardue
Partner, Parker Poe
Jim Patterson
Chair, AIA Pro Bono Advisory Council
Hannah Paulin
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Laura Peter
Former Deputy Director USPTO
Ruud Peters
(Retired) Phillips
David Petite
Native American IP Enterprise Council
Marshall Phelps
(Retired) IBM, Microsoft
Gail Podolsky
Chair, Technology Industry Group at Carlton Fields
Brian Pomper
Innovation Alliance, Akin Gump
Damian Porcari
IP Consultant; Former USPTO Director
Gene Quinn
President & CEO, IP Watchdog, inc.
Siva Raghupaty
Chief Commercialization Officer, Georgia Tech
Terry Rea
(Former) Crowell Moring, (Former) USPTO, AIPLA, NIH
Auma Reggy
Chief Trademark Counsel, McKesson Corporation
Andy Salvador
WAIPA
Gwilym Roberts
Partner, Kilburn & Strode LLP, Podcast Co-host
Tony Rollins
President, Global Network of National IP Practitioner Associations
Milan Ruzicka
Thought Horizon, GIPA
William Shaw
Tufts University Gordon Institute
Lucy Sanders
Exec Dir, National Center for Women in Technology
Hans Sauer
Biotech Innovation Group, BIO
Manny Schecter
IBM
Paris Schulman
Founder, RiTE Media
Mala Sharma
Georgia Film & Entertainment Commission
Caroline Stivers
KYIPA
Bruce Siegal
Greenspoon Marder LLP
Corrine Sukiennik
GIPA - Executive Director
David Sohn
(Former) CDT General Counsel, Copyright Creativity
Elaine Spector
Partner, Harrity & Harrity LLP
Rob Sterne
Founder & Director Sterne Kessler
Protectors
Bob Taylor
US Inventors for Jobs (USIJ)
Elishia Thompson
Founder, EST Global LLC
Zak Tutino
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer - Paximal
Tony Vann
Senior Counsel - Brand, Marketing, Trademark & Copyright at Wells Fargo
Carolyn Ward
Senior Director, The Henry Ford (KYIPA)
Brad Watts
US Chamber of Commerce
Milan Ruzicka
Thought Horizon, GIPA