Sam Dinkin Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas

* New England ISO Forward Capacity Market, 2008-present 35 GW in each annual auction, $1.6B/yr and five other major electricity auction series including the New Jersey BGS Auction and two energy auction studies, 2000-present * Okavango Diamond Corporation, 3.4 million carats/yr, 10 auctions/yr, 2012-present and four other rough diamond sellers 2008-2014* Advise governments in 11 spectrum auctions on four continents including first spectrum auction in Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico… Show more * New England ISO Forward Capacity Market, 2008-present 35 GW in each annual auction, $1.6B/yr and five other major electricity auction series including the New Jersey BGS Auction and two energy auction studies, 2000-present * Okavango Diamond Corporation, 3.4 million carats/yr, 10 auctions/yr, 2012-present and four other rough diamond sellers 2008-2014* Advise governments in 11 spectrum auctions on four continents including first spectrum auction in Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico and Thailand 1996-present* Advise bidders in 15 spectrum auctions, including Airtel, India for $9.4 billion in acquisitions, 1998-presentAuction design and implementation roles: Auction Manager including live support, training, monitoring, help desk and post-mortem reports; Auction Design; Auction Implementation including project management, auction rules, software quality assurance, software specification, and training materials Auction advice roles: bid strategy, mock auctions, live auction support, governance, war room design, bid tracking tool specification Show less

Austin, Texas

* One of the two experts selected by Industry Canada for 2008 auction advice for multi-billion dollar auctions* Auction specialist for first US government greenhouse gas auction for 10 states in 2008* Bid strategy advice for two clients in North America and Europe wireless telecom auctions including one combinatorial auction* Wireless auction software for European government

Founded in '98 based on my idea, auctioned $150B in cost of goods sold, surpassed by eBay in '04.•NJ BGS 2001-7 $25B in energy at $2.4B less per year than NY (36%) with auction responsible for 1/3 savings•Domain lead, software for Illinois Auction, bought full requirements for 12.8 million of rate payers in Illinois•Domain lead, software for Electricity Distribution auction for 40 million Spain rate payers•Testifying expert, regs writer & req's manager for Texas PUC capacity… Show more Founded in '98 based on my idea, auctioned $150B in cost of goods sold, surpassed by eBay in '04.•NJ BGS 2001-7 $25B in energy at $2.4B less per year than NY (36%) with auction responsible for 1/3 savings•Domain lead, software for Illinois Auction, bought full requirements for 12.8 million of rate payers in Illinois•Domain lead, software for Electricity Distribution auction for 40 million Spain rate payers•Testifying expert, regs writer & req's manager for Texas PUC capacity 2002-5 15% of TX capacity•Singapore 3G, Italy LMDS telecom auctions Show less

•Primary investigator for experimental economics study of technical services e-Market •Co-responsible for building $2M experimental and computational economics laboratory, experimental economics software and economics evangelism•Conceived, proposed and led team to conduct a $3M project and progenitor of another $13.5M follow-up project•70 patent filing awards 2000-2002, 31 published by USPTO 2002-2005•18 patents granted: 6,539,947; 6,442,018; 6,329,919 "the 919 patent";… Show more •Primary investigator for experimental economics study of technical services e-Market •Co-responsible for building $2M experimental and computational economics laboratory, experimental economics software and economics evangelism•Conceived, proposed and led team to conduct a $3M project and progenitor of another $13.5M follow-up project•70 patent filing awards 2000-2002, 31 published by USPTO 2002-2005•18 patents granted: 6,539,947; 6,442,018; 6,329,919 "the 919 patent"; 6,339,736; 6,591,253; 6,603,965; 6,631,309; 6,615,113; 6,934,390; 6,941,370; 6,915,506; 6,941,474; 7,010,570; 7,035,650; 7,072,839; 7,076,463; 7,260,542; and 7,280,982•Award winning intellectual input into industry leading e-Markets strategy offering and marketing material•Advised IBM on M&A, Fluor-IBM JV, the IBM IPN spin-off and Informix merger•Business method patent evangelism, chair of invention committee, progenitor of a class of invention incentive awards•Marketplaces evangelism Show less

Ph.D., Economics

Activities and Societies: Bridge Club, Graduate Student Council * Thesis advisor Vernon Smith, Nobel Prize 2002 * AER article on Common.

B.S., Economics

Activities and Societies: Debate Team, Bridge Club, Caltech Y, Ricketts House, California Tech, ASCIT * VP of Ricketts * Treasurer.

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