The USIPA Board
USIPA Executive Committee
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Scott Frank
USIPA Cabinet - Chair
AT&T, Georgia IP Alliance, NCEIA
David Kappos
USIPA Cabinet -Vice Chair
Cravath, (Former) Dir USPTO/Chief IP IBM
Paul Michel
USIPA Cabinet -Vice Chair
(Retired) Chief Justice Federal Circuit
Joyce Ward
USIPA Cabinet -Vice Chair
Director, Office of Education and Outreach Success, USPTO
Mike Wright
USIPA Cabinet -Treasurer
(Retired) Coca-Cola, GIPA
Mike Hobbs
USIPA Cabinet -Secretary
Troutman Pepper, GIPA
Nikhil Marathe
USIPA Cabinet -Strategy, Executive Director
AT&T, ILIPA
Barry Brager
USIPA Cabinet -Strategy & Technology
Perception Partners, GIPA
Bruce Berman
Brody/Berman, Center for IP Understanding
Suzanne Harrison
IP Gathering
Andrei Iancu
Partner Irell & Manella, (Former) Director USPTO
Lisa Jorgenson
WIPO
Jim Malackowski
USIPA Cabinet -Strategy
Ocean Tomo
Mickie Piatt
Chicago Kent Law School
Elizabeth Dougherty
Awareness Co-chair
US Patent & Trademark Office
Mike Waring
Awareness Co-Chair
(Retired) University of Michigan
Chinwe Ohanele
K-12 Education Co-Chair
Director of Michelson IP
Carlyn Burton
K-12 Education Co-Chair
Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP, Partner ; Compudopt, Co-Founder
Joshua Kresh
University Education Co-Chair
Managing Director, Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2
Shubha Ghosh
University Education Co-Chair
Director, Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute
Warren Tuttle
Creators (Patents & Tech) Co-Chair
United Inventors Assoc, NCEIA
James Howard
Creators (Patents & Tech) Co-Chair
Black Inventors Hall of Fame
Russell Binns
Protectors Co-Chair
Allied Security Trust (AST)
Ken Seddon
Protectors Co-Chair
License on Transfer (LOT)
Steve Susalka
Enablers Co-Chair
AUTM, National Council for Expanding American Innovation
Phil Weilerstein
Enablers Co-Chair
President & CEO VentureWell
Lateef Mtima
Howard University
Elizabeth Lester
Assistant General Counsel, Equifax
Zak Tutino
State Alliances Co-Chair
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer - Paximal
Sam Zellner
USIPA Cabinet -Strategy | Co-Chair
CEO InspireIP, GIPA, ILIPA
George York
EAS Committee Co-Chair
Recording Industry Association of America
Lana Love
EAS Committee Co-Chair
Celebrity Artist, Songwriter, Producer
Daretia Austin
Trademarks Co-Chair
Trademarks, Copyrights, Online Brand Protection at AT&T
Erin Hennessy
Trademarks Co-Chair
Partner, Haynes Boone
Mary Guzman
Trade Secrets Co-Chair
Founder/CEO of Crown Jewel® Insurance
Keith Kupferschmid
Copyright Committee Co-Chair
Copyright Alliance
Roy Kaufman
Copyright Committee Co-Chair
Managing Director, Business Development and Government Relations for CCC
USIPA General Board
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Steve Akerley
Vice President, InterDigital
Nicholas Armington
Partner at Prince Lobel Tye LLP; (former) Special Counsel, Mintz
Jack Bernard
University of Michigan
Shawn Boger
National Inventors Hall of Fame, GIPA
Susan G Braden
Retired Judge of the US Court of Federal Clains
Josh Budwin
TXIPA
Chris Burger
DMVIPA
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
Penny Collins
Women In Technology, GIPA
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
Louis Foreman
Everyday Edisons, Inventors Digest, Enventys
Judith Finell
President, Judith Finell Music Services Inc.
Vincent Garlock
American IP Law Assoc (AIPLA)
Michele Glidden
Society for Science, Program Coordinator
Franklin Graves
HCA Healthcare
Lorie Goins
NCIPA
Griff Griffin
Eversheds, GIPA
Ravi Gupta
Co-Founder and COO, Tambourine Innovation Ventures
Scott Hayden
Chief IP Counsel for Amazon
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
Peggy Johnson
Film Producer, Composer, Music Supervisor
Erik Johnson
CAIPA
Chakshu Kalra
Co-founder, and Director of GreyB
Alan Kasper
(Former) President of Global Network of National IP Law Associations
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
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 & Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Finnegan
Allen Lo
Facebook
Miriam Lord
US Copyright Office
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
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
DJ Nag
OHIPA
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
Aseet Patel
Founder CEO, PatentOAResponse.com
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
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
Jamie Renee
Executive Director, NAI
Gwilym Roberts
Partner, Kilburn & Strode LLP, Podcast Co-host
Andy Salvador
WAIPA
Tony Rollins
President, Global Network of National IP Practitioner Associations
Lita Rosario-Richardson
Schulman Rogers
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
Rob Sterne
Founder & Director Sterne Kessler
Rob Sterne
Founder & Director Sterne Kessler
Protectors
Bob Taylor
US Inventors for Jobs (USIJ)
Elishia Thompson
Founder, EST Global LLC
D’Angelo Thompson
Creative artist, author and Emmy award nominated Makeup artist
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
Program Leaders
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Milan Ruzicka
Thought Horizon, GIPA
Sam Zellner
USIPA Cabinet -Strategy Co-Chair
CEO InspireIP, GIPA, ILIPA