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Innovation Resource Group is a global provider of intellectual property insurance, financing, and consulting. We bring extensive experience and broad insights, with the goal of improving innovative organizations through strategy, intellectual property risk mitigation, and financial growth. We specialize in unlocking an enterprise's intellectual property value and serve entrepreneurs committed to commercializing paradigm-shifting solutions.Ohio License # 1549607NPN License # 20999556

At Bass Innovation Group, our focus is on finding value in underpriced properties that need commercial development. Bass Innovation Group aims to invest in innovations today that will solve global problems tomorrow. We source intellectual assets, such as patented innovations, through proprietary technologies in an effort to interpret the significance of an invention and calculate its long-range commercial value. Property and property rights are at the cornerstone of our strategy because we believe that growth in value is driven by taking an innovation to market.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

- Led a technology-oriented manufacturing and distribution company in the consumer products sector, transitioning it from a 71 year-old family business into a global enterprise consisting of 10 departments across multiple facilities and locations.- Raised over $50 million in new capital, including for working capital and equipment financing related to technology expansion around the core business model, for an Asset Backed Loan for general business use, for litigation financing, and for an Industrial Revenue Bond to build a 125,000 sq. ft. distribution facility.- Developed and commercialized more than 20 patents that modernized an old-line industry and resulted in over $10 million in additional sales.

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

- Managed complex corporate, individual, and estate tax plans and compliance projects.- Met tight deadlines and participated in IRS audits and bankruptcy proceedings.