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BOARD Kevin
Allison – Consultant
Mr. Allison is a private consultant who has an extensive
background in solar energy and microelectronics research project
leadership. He has held a variety of management and research positions
in the microelectronics and solar industries with Ferro Corporation,
E.C.N., AstroPower and General Electric. At Ferro Corporation's
Electronic Materials group he was the Manager of Conductor Development.
During this time he founded and led the successful solar metallization
ink program for nearly 20 years. His experience also spans a 2 year
materials development collaboration with ECN in the Netherlands
and 4 years as Director of Strategic Technologies at AstroPower.
He has also led Product Development at AstroPower and after AstroPower's
acquisition by GE Energy spent 2 years as Marketing Manager for
Solar Technology group at GE Energy.
Mr. Allison has a B.A. in Chemistry from U.C. Berkeley,
California and is a holder of 7 US patents.
Dr.
Eric Schiff - Syracuse University
Dr.
Schiff brings an extensive background in thin-film semiconductors
and solar cell device physics to Innovalight, primarily from his
25 years as a physics professor at Syracuse University and from
several additional years as a researcher at the University of Chicago.
He has also worked concurrently as a consultant and visiting scientist
at Brown University, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Hewlett-Packard
Corporation. Eric’s research has spanned several important
photovoltaic systems, including amorphous and microcrystalline silicon,
dye-sensitized solar cells, and CIGS. He is a widely recognized
researcher who has published more than 100 scientific papers, advised
more than fifteen doctoral students, and served frequently on organizing
committees for Materials Research Society Symposia, for the International
Conference on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors, and
the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference.
Eric
has a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University and a BS from Caltech.
Stephen
P. Fox – Foley & Lardner LLP
Stephen
P. Fox is counsel in Foley & Lardner LLP’s Silicon Valley
office and is a member of the Intellectual Property Department and
Electronics Practice Group.
Prior
to joining Foley, Mr. Fox was vice president and deputy general
counsel for intellectual property at Hewlett-Packard Company, where
for 19 years he supervised the company’s intellectual property
legal work worldwide and managed 100 professionals in Europe, Asia
and the United States. In this capacity, he also oversaw the intellectual
property aspects of several HP divestitures and acquisitions.
Mr.
Fox’s practice focuses on all aspects of strategic IP counseling
including management and licensing, best practices in patent procurement,
and patent litigation. In addition to his extensive experience in
managing one of the largest patent portfolios in the world, he has
specific expertise in defending patent infringement complaints brought
by patent holding companies (trolls) that buy patent portfolios
for the sole purpose of filing lawsuits.
Mr.
Fox received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
from Northwestern University and a law degree from George Washington
University Law School. He is a federally registered patent agent
and a member of the California State Bar.
Mr.
Fox is past president and a current member of the Association of
Corporate Patent Counsel, a past board member of Intellectual Property
Owners Inc., and a current board member of the National Inventors
Hall of Fame. He has also served as a federal appointee to the USPTO
Patent Public Advisory Committee and is a member of the Licensing
Executives Society, the American Intellectual Property Law Association
and the American Bar Association.
Dr.
David Jurbergs - Consultant
Dr. Jurbergs
works for Bayer AG and has over 10 years of experience in applied
research, invention, and commercialization of new technologies at
W.L. Gore & Associates, Optical Switch Corporation, Schott,
and Innovalight. During this time, he has successfully patented
and taken waveguide-based photonic components from concept through
pilot-plant production stages of development. He has been extensively
involved with packaging and light out-coupling of lasers, optical
switches, and passive fiber-optic components. While working on his
Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. John T. McDevitt, his research
on the optoelectronic characteristics of molecular dye/high-temperature
superconductor structures led to the discovery of an antenna effect
and patenting of novel color-selective photodetectors. He holds
8 patents and has over 20 publications.
Dr.
Jurbergs obtained a B.S. Chemistry and a Ph.D. Chemistry from the
University of Texas at Austin.
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