American attorney and patent executive who served as Executive Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel at Intellectual Ventures, the patent firm founded by Nathan Myhrvold. Appears in DOJ-released EFTA document EFTA00680010 in an email thread with Melanie Walker, Bill Gates, and others discussing Walker's neurosurgery fellowship and medical career. Holds a JD from NYU and engineering degrees from Georgia Tech and University of South Florida, with 600+ patents to his name.