President
CurrentStrategy consultancy with clients spanning three continents. Clients are primarily content owners, service providers, and digital media technology vendors, and have ranged from early stage startups to companies such as Adobe, Associated Press, Brother, British Telecom, Consumers Union, Disney, Google, HP, IBM, LG Electronics, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft, NPR, Pearson, Readers Digest, Sony, Spotify, and Warner Music Group. Projects for content providers include technology strategy, rights management, process and organizational work, RFP and vendor selection, digital product strategy. Projects for tech vendors include go-to-market strategy, business plan creation, business development, partnerships, product strategy, industry visibility, IP licensing. Expert witness and litigation consultant in intellectual property matters with experience in the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands. Testimony in U.S. federal courts, the Copyright Royalty Board, and International Trade Commission. Source code examination in over a dozen programming languages; drafting of discovery requests and technical sections of briefs. Advisory work for and/or testimony before public policy organizations worldwide. Due diligence for investors evaluating stakes in digital media technology companies. Analysis of IP (patent) portfolios.