Don Bitting
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Dr. Mark T. Maybury
Don is a successful and innovative thought leader who creates strategies that unlock new opportunities leveraging technology and patent licensing.
Adan Ayala
Don and I worked together to explore different IP monetization strategies. Don is a terrific strategic thinker and leader. His deep expertise in IP combined with highly-tuned intuition for both business strategy and realities of commercialization enabled him to make unique and supremely valuable strategic decisions across the spectrum of electronics, technology, consumer products, and engineering. His perspectives on the strategic leverage of IP helped identify opportunities and value. Don would be an asset to any organization.
Dr. Mark T. Maybury
Don is a successful and innovative thought leader who creates strategies that unlock new opportunities leveraging technology and patent licensing.
Adan Ayala
Don and I worked together to explore different IP monetization strategies. Don is a terrific strategic thinker and leader. His deep expertise in IP combined with highly-tuned intuition for both business strategy and realities of commercialization enabled him to make unique and supremely valuable strategic decisions across the spectrum of electronics, technology, consumer products, and engineering. His perspectives on the strategic leverage of IP helped identify opportunities and value. Don would be an asset to any organization.
Dr. Mark T. Maybury
Don is a successful and innovative thought leader who creates strategies that unlock new opportunities leveraging technology and patent licensing.
Adan Ayala
Don and I worked together to explore different IP monetization strategies. Don is a terrific strategic thinker and leader. His deep expertise in IP combined with highly-tuned intuition for both business strategy and realities of commercialization enabled him to make unique and supremely valuable strategic decisions across the spectrum of electronics, technology, consumer products, and engineering. His perspectives on the strategic leverage of IP helped identify opportunities and value. Don would be an asset to any organization.
Dr. Mark T. Maybury
Don is a successful and innovative thought leader who creates strategies that unlock new opportunities leveraging technology and patent licensing.
Adan Ayala
Don and I worked together to explore different IP monetization strategies. Don is a terrific strategic thinker and leader. His deep expertise in IP combined with highly-tuned intuition for both business strategy and realities of commercialization enabled him to make unique and supremely valuable strategic decisions across the spectrum of electronics, technology, consumer products, and engineering. His perspectives on the strategic leverage of IP helped identify opportunities and value. Don would be an asset to any organization.
Experience
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Strong Force Catalyst
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President, Business Development & Licensing
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Sep 2019 - Present
Managed a P&L business focused on licensing and monetization of wholly owned patent portfolios. Curated and executed on a nine figure total signings opportunity value deal pipeline. Leveraged C-Suite relationships to develop and land licensing deals in a wide range of industry spaces including networking (5G, Wifi, Bluetooth), Industrial sensors, IoT platforms, digital twins, and financial transactions (dynamic lending). Strong Force delivers strategic advantage by systematically innovating across technologies, use cases, and ecosystems and by combining innovative material from a wide range of perspectives to create large, comprehensive, category-influencing patent portfolios. This approach enables it to capture broad market opportunity well before use-case adoptions emerge to drive more typical patenting activity. To benefit innovators and other stakeholders, Strong Force Catalyst delivers thought leadership, dissolves market boundaries, contributes disruptive innovation, and drives ecosystem participation to catalyze categories. We have created billions of dollars in value across a wide array of sectors and helped hundreds of visionary inventors, market leaders, and capital allocators succeed. Show less
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Ofinno
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United States
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director Of Business Development
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2018 - 2019
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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
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United States
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Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Director of Intellectual Property/Patent Licensing
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2017 - 2018
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Program Director, Advanced Research Technology Business Development & Commercialization
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2013 - 2016
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Program Director, Technology Licensing
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2010 - 2012
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Manager, Intellectual Property/Patent Licensing and Alliances
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2007 - 2010
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GE
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United States
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Director Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
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2006 - 2007
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LSI, an Avago Technologies Company
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Flip Chip IC Interconnect Technology Development Engineer
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2004 - 2006
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Photon-X LLC
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director, Microelectronics Foundry
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2001 - 2004
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AT&T Bell Laboratories
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United States
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Semiconductor Process Development Engineer
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1993 - 1998
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Education
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1998 - 2003
University of Florida
Ph. D., Materials Science and Engineering -
1998 - 2002
Lehigh University - College of Business and Economics
MBA, Management -
1996 - 1998
University of Florida
MS, Materials Science and Engineering -
1992 - 1996
Albright College
BS, Triple Major: Physics, Comp Sci, & Mathematics
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