Dallas Regional Entrepreneurship Conference Speaker Bios

Speaker Biographies

• Kathy Berry
  Dallas Public Library
   
• Trey Bowles
  Co-Founder & CEO of the Dallas Entrepreneur Center
   
• Wynn W. Coggins
  Deputy Chief Administrative Officer
  The United States Patent and Trademark Office
   
• Elizabeth Lea Dougherty, J.D.
  Director of Inventor Education, Outreach, and Recognition
  Office of Innovation Development
  United States Patent and Trademark Office
   
• Mr. Anthony (Tony) Knight
  Associate Commissioner for Innovation Development (Acting)
  United States Patent and Trademark Office
   

• Dr. Simon Mak
  Professor of Practice in the Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Business Economics and the
  Associate Director of the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship at the SMU Cox School of Business

• Craig Morris
  Trademark Attorney for Educational Outreach
  United States Patent and Trademark Office
   
• Russell Slifer
  Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
  and Deputy Director of The United States Patent and Trademark Office
   
• Ingrid Vanderveldt
  Founder and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020)