James E. Malackowski is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ocean Tomo, LLC, an integrated Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc™ firm providing financial products and services related to Intellectual Property (IP) expert services, research, investments, risk management and transactions.   Ocean Tomo assists clients – corporations, law firms, governments and institutional investors – in realizing Intellectual Capital Equity® value broadly defined.  Subsidiaries of Ocean Tomo include: Ocean Tomo Capital, LLC -- publisher of the Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index (NYSE: OTPAT). Ocean Tomo is the founder of the Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc. where Mr. Malackowski serves as Co-Chairman.

Mr. Malackowski is a founding and continuous member of the IP Hall of Fame Academy. He has been recognized annually since 2007 by leading industry publications as one of the fifty most influential people in intellectual property and /or one of the ‘World’s 250 Leading IP Strategists’. In 2011 Mr. Malackowski was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of less than twenty members of the Network of Global Agenda Councils to focus on questions of IP policy. Prior to forming Ocean Tomo, he served as a finance and investment advisor working with one of the Nation’s oldest investment banks, as well as one of Chicago’s largest private equity firms.  He began his career spending fifteen years as a management consultant and forensic accountant focused on intangible assets. In this capacity Mr. Malackowski served numerous roles as a founding principal including Chief Executive Officer of his firm, growing the practice to the nation’s largest before its sale.

Mr. Malackowski has advised clients and counsel on business valuation issues as well as all phases of the technology transfer process. He has substantial experience as a Board Director for leading technology corporations as well as companies with critical brand management issues. Mr. Malackowski has served in a leadership role with numerous corporate and non-for-profit entities. He is President for The Licensing Executives Society International, Inc. and PastPresident of LES USA & Canada, Inc. Today, Mr. Malackowski focuses his non-for-profit efforts with organizations leveraging science and innovation for the benefit of children or lesser developed countries. He is a Director of Children’s Memorial Research Center, an affiliate of Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago and has served since 2002 as a Trustee or Director of Invent Now, Inc., an organization providing summer enrichment programs for more than 70,000 students annually.  He is the Founder of the Chicago based Center for Applied Innovation (CAI), an Illinois non-profit corporation created to manage education, public policy outreach and related economic activity around applied technology and intellectual property rights.  CAI is the organizing entity for the Invent for Humanity™ Technology Transfer Exchange Fair taking place each January in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mr. Malackowski is a frequent speaker on emerging technology markets and related financial measures. He has addressed mass media audiences including Bloomberg Morning Call, Bloomberg Evening Market Pulse, Bloomberg Final Word, CNBC Closing Bell, CNBC On the Money, CNBC Street Signs, CBS News Radio and Fox Business National Television. Mr. Malackowski has also appeared as a judge on PBS’s Everyday Edisons.

On more than thirty occasions, Mr. Malackowski has served as an expert in Federal Court or the International Trade Commission on questions relating to intellectual property economics, including the subject of business valuation, reasonable royalty, lost profits, price erosion, commercial success, corrective advertising, Hatch Waxman Act market exclusivity, and the equities of a potential injunction.  As an inventor, Mr. Malackowski has sixteen issued U.S. patents. He is a frequent Adjunct Instructor for graduate studies on IP management and markets and a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame majoring in accountancy and philosophy. Mr. Malackowski is Certified in Financial Forensics, a Certified Licensing Professional and a Registered Certified Public Accountant in the State of Illinois.