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 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 and majority owner of the Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc. Mr. Malackowski serves as the Chairman of the Exchange.
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Dean A. Pelletier Dean A. Pelletier is the Managing Director of Ocean Tomo’s Trade Secret practice, which provides trade secret strategy, investment, risk management, transaction and expert testimony services. Dean works on the management and monetization of all intellectual property (IP) assets, with a particular focus on assisting companies in proactively developing, protecting and capitalizing on their trade secret portfolios.
Contact: DeanPelletierBlogs@OceanTomo.com
Jeffrey P. Klug is a Director in Ocean Tomo’s Expert Testimony practice and is based in the firm’s Chicago office. Mr. Klug’s consulting experience includes the quantification of economic damages in disputes involving patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, trademark infringement, false marking, and false advertising. Representative case experience spans a broad array of industries including automotive, aviation, biotechnology, computer software, construction materials, consumer products, electronics, finance, internet services, medical devices, paper, pharmaceuticals, and power tools.
Contact: JeffKlugBlogs@OceanTomo.com
Roy P. D’Souza is a Managing Director responsible for leading Ocean Tomo’s Valuation practice. Mr. D’Souza’s work has focused on valuations of intangible and tangible assets for financial reporting, tax matters, merger and acquisition planning, litigations, financing and general business planning. Mr. D’Souza also has experience performing overall business valuations and debt and equity valuations.
Contact: RoyDSouzaBlogs@OceanTomo.com
Justin Lewis is a Managing Director in Ocean Tomo’s Expert Testimony practice in San Francisco. Mr. Lewis’ consulting experience includes the analysis and quantification of economic damages arising from patent, trademark, trade secrets & copyright infringement. He has a solid understanding of the financial issues and theories related to intellectual property licensing and litigation. Mr. Lewis has led teams in support of counsel for all phases of the litigation process from discovery to trial. He has also performed royalty reviews on both U.S and foreign companies.
Contact: JustinLewisBlogs@OceanTomo.com
Joel Lutzker is Ocean Tomo's General Counsel and a Managing Director in the Transactions Group. Mr. Lutzker has over 30 years of experience in patent litigation and transactions. Mr. Lutzker has been first chair litigation counsel in patent cases in federal district courts throughout the country, has argued on numerous occasions before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and has been principal counsel and author of several amicus briefs on significant patent cases before the United States Supreme Court.
Contact: JoelLutzkerBlogs@OceanTomo.com
Molly Keelan is the Director of Business Development and Sales at Ocean Tomo. She brings 16 years of leadership working with Fortune 1000 executives and corporate counsel and partners from some of the country’s leading law firms to help develop winning litigation strategies. By understanding the industry’s complexities, she is able to formulate individual solutions using the firm’s core intellectual property practices.
Contact: MollyKeelanBlogs@OceanTomo.com
Tim Binney is a business development associate at Ocean Tomo. Mr. Binney has extensive experience in the energy industry connecting businesses and alternate electricity retail suppliers in deregulated energy markets. Additionally he worked as a sales representative in the professional audio product manufacturing space, providing complex technical audio solutions from industry leaders such as Harman International and Tascam to systems integrators and consultants. Mr. Binney worked for 10 years as an audio engineer in live sound and studio applications and started his career as a programmer on Unix-based operating systems writing code in a number of different languages.
Contact: TimBinneyBlogs@OceanTomo.com