Federal government
Wilbur Ross
Secretary, Department of Commerce
Jovita Carranza
Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration
Andrei Iancu
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan
Director, National Science Foundation
Academia
Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick, M.D., MBA
President, Howard University
Dr. Timothy Sands
President, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dr. Wendy Wintersteen
President, Iowa State University
Michael K. Young
President, Texas A&M University
Industry
Mary T. Barra
Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company
Dr. Giovanni Caforio, M.D.
Chairman of the Board and CEO, Bristol Myers Squibb
Safra A. Catz
CEO, Oracle Corporation
Kathleen B. Fish
Chief Research, Development, and Innovation Officer, Procter & Gamble
Scott Frank
President and CEO, AT&T Intellectual Property, LLC
Alex Gorsky
Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson
Dr. Kathryn Guarini, Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer and Vice President for IBM Research, IBM
Steven Mollenkopf
CEO, Qualcomm Incorporated
Dave A. Ricks
Chairman and CEO, Eli Lilly and Company
Michael Roman
Chairman and CEO, 3M Company
Intellectual property associations
Barbara Fiacco
President, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Warren Tuttle
President of the Board of Directors, United Inventors Association
Nonprofit organizations
Brennon Marcano
CEO, The National GEM Consortium
Dr. Sudip Parikh, Ph.D.
CEO and Executive Publisher, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Dr. Karl W. Reid, Ed.D.
Co-founder, 50K Coalition, and Executive Director, NSBE
Dr. Stephen J. Susalka, Ph.D.
CEO, AUTM
Independent inventors
Dr. Lonnie Johnson
Inventor, CEO and Founder of Johnson R&D
Dean Kamen
Inventor, Founder at FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) and DEKA Research and Development
Venture capitalists
Dr. Deepa Pakianathan, Ph.D.
Managing Member, Delphi Ventures
Mallun Yen
Founder and Partner, Operator Collective VC Fund