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Speaker Biographies
Dr. Brent Goldfarb
Brent Goldfarb is a professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at
the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of
Maryland. Goldfarb studies how the production and exchange of
technology differs from more traditional economic goods, and the
implications of these differences for firms and policy. His research
has focused on how national innovation systems, incentives and the
characteristics of technologies influence both the production of
knowledge at the university and the transfer of this knowledge to
the private sector. He has also studied issues in the evolution of
emerging industries. A key result of his research is that while
markets are problematic mediums for technology exchange, key
institutions often evolve to mitigate problems. Goldfarb's work has
been published in several scholarly journals and covered by such
press outlets as the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Goldfarb earned his
Ph. D. in economics from Stanford University in 2002.
Keitseng Monyatsi
Principal Research Science & Technology Officer (Intellectual
Property Rights), Ministry of Communications Science & Technology in
the Department of Research Science & Technology. Keitseng
received her Masters degree in Intellectual Property (from Franklin
Piece Law Centre, Concord New Hampshire, US). She spent 5 ½
years as a Trademarks Examiner in the Registrar of Companies office,
and 2 years as an IP Consultant at Armstrongs Attorneys Currently.
Keitseng advises the Department of Research Science & Technology and
the Ministry on IP issues, with a bias towards their relation with
research, science and technology.
Donald Grant Kelly
Don Kelly is a Senior Consultant with the International Intellectual
Property Institute (IIPI). In this role, Don has helped plan and
execute a number of IIPI projects and activities.
Don Kelly is chief executive of Intellectual Asset Management
Associates, LLC, an IP consultancy and patent law practice based in
Alexandria, VA. Prior to establishing IAMA in 2002, Kelly served as
CEO of the prestigious Academy of Applied Science, a nonprofit
corporation founded in 1963 with a mission to foster innovation and
establish a global forum for exploration of educational, scientific
and legal issues. For many years prior to joining the Academy,
Donald was a longtime senior executive with the US Patent &
Trademark Office where he directed patent examining divisions and
served as USPTO chief of staff. He established the USPTO's
innovative Office of Independent Inventor Programs, and the
award-winning national classroom initiative, Project XL.
As adjunct professor, Don Kelly taught patent law at Franklin Pierce
Law Center in 2001. Currently, he is visiting lecturer at Fordham
University’s Graduate School of Business and MIT’s Sloan School of
Management, and serves on the workshop faculty of Mohawk Research,
Inc. He has served two terms as a standing committee chair for the
Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Organization, and for three years
on the faculty for Licensing Executives Society (LES) professional
development programs.
Through his frequent lectures and published articles on American
innovation, Don Kelly has gained a national reputation as champion
of inventors and entrepreneurs. For 2006-2007 he has been elected to
serve as President of the United Inventors Association of the USA.
Don’s remarkable IP career carries him into international arenas, as
well, lecturing in the Middle East for the International
Intellectual Property Institute, presenting to Shanghai businessmen
on behalf of the Asian Pacific Legal Institute, speaking in the Far
East for the World Intellectual Property Organization and across
Europe as a faculty member for the NATO Lecture Series. He was
appointed to serve with the President's negotiation team to the
GATT's Tokyo Round. As the US marketing director for the major
British Publishing House, Pergamon Press, Ltd., Kelly introduced
America's intellectual property law community to the first
comprehensive, electronic patent search and retrieval system.
Kelly currently serves on the advisory board of the ByKidsForKids
Co. and the Yankee Invention Exposition, Inc., and on the board of
directors of Patent Cafe, Inc. Internet-based magazine IP-Frontline
e-Magazine carries his entrepreneur-focused column, "Out to Launch"
and HumanTech, Inc. recently engaged him as expert consultant for a
US Government contract to assist USPTO in development of a Strategic
Human Capital Plan. Kelly studied Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering at Virginia Tech where he received a BS-ME.
Dr. Michelle Mulder
Michelle is a Manager of Intellectual Property and Business
Development at the Medical Research Council’s Innovation Centre. Her
position involves the strategic management and commercialization of
IP developed in the MRC’s research units. She also plays an active
role in capacity building in the areas of IP management and
technology transfer in South and East Africa, together with SARIMA
and MIHR (UK). She has a doctorate in Medical Microbiology and has
post-doctoral experience in a start-up biotechnology company in
Cambridge. Michelle is also a founder member of a biotechnology
consulting company. She is the South Africa Liaison for the Life
Sciences Committee of LESI and is leading a project to increase
participation of Africa in LESI. Michelle is participating in the
conference in her capacity as Vice President of Innovation and
Technology Transfer for SARIMA.
Susan Sprake
J. Susan Sprake is the current Vice Chair of the Federal Laboratory
Consortium (FLC). The FLC offers training and education, publication
of premier laboratory technologies, and a nationally recognized
awards program for outstanding technologies and partnership coming
from the federal laboratories.
Ms. Sprake was awarded the Representative of the Year Award for
2005.
Ms. Sprake is also the New Business Development Executive for the
Technology Transfer Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
In this role Susan is tasked with developing long term strategic
relationships with global businesses whose R&D needs match well with
the attributes of LANL. She participates in the continued
involvement of venture capital firms with the laboratory, spin out
opportunities, and promoting Pacific Rim economic involvement. With
over 25 years of experience in technology transfer, Ms. Sprake
continues to be responsible for advising LANL on policy and
legislation considerations affecting technology transfer activities.
These roles include liaison duties to Department of Energy’s agency
level Technology Transfer Working Group (TTWG) and the Department of
Energy’s laboratory level Technology Partnership Working Group (TPWG).
Ms. Sprake has received the Department of Energy’s Performance
Excellence Award in 1995, 2000, and 2002.
Ms. Sprake has a BA from the University of Maryland in International
Law Studies and a J.D. in law for the University of California,
Hastings College of the Law.
Kevin M. Reichelt
As a Program Attorney for IIPI, Kevin provides critical research on
IP policy and training efforts in developing countries, organizes
conferences addressing areas of concern regarding IP and
development, engages in report writing and various projects at the
Institute.
Kevin obtained a B.S. degree in Biology and Psychology with a minor
in Biochemistry from the University of Oregon. While at Oregon,
Kevin was the recipient of a research training grant in which he
conducted independent research into evolutionary genetics.
Following his undergraduate degree, Kevin earned his Juris Doctor
from the University Of Oregon School Of Law. During his second year
of law school, Kevin earned a position as a Technology Entrepreneur
Fellow where he advised on the marketability of patented
technologies developed at the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratories.
Deciding to pursue his broad interest in international law, Kevin
attended University College London, acquiring an LL.M. in Public
International Law. While attending UCL Kevin completed courses in
International Economic Law, International Courts and Tribunals, and
a specific course on Intellectual Property Law and Development. Some
of Kevin’s research interests include IP law and access to
medicines, effective technology transfer in low-income countries,
examination of the intersection of IP law and human rights, and
geographic indications as used in agricultural and food products.
Rosemary Wolson
Rosemary Wolson is Intellectual Property Manager at the Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa.
She has a BSc (Hons) degree in Microbiology and an LLB, both from
the University of Cape Town. In her previous position as
Intellectual Property Manager at the University of Cape Town (UCT),
she participated in establishing UCT Innovation, the division
responsible for UCT's technology transfer and research contract
management functions. Her experience as an early technology transfer
practitioner in a developing country cultivated an interest in
broader policy issues related to the role of innovation and
intellectual property rights in promoting development, and she takes
on selected applied research projects in these areas from time to
time. She is also involved in various capacity-building and
information-sharing initiatives in South Africa, Africa and
internationally. She is a member of the International Advisory
Committee of Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors (PIIPA),
and sits on the Executive of the Southern African Research and
Innovation Management Association (SARIMA), a regional network of
stakeholders.
Isaac Mazonde
Isaac Mazonde earned his PhD from the University of Manchester, UK,
in 1987. From 1978 to 2001, he worked for the National Institute of
Development Research and Documentation within the University of
Botswana, first as a Staff Development Fellow, then as a Research
Fellow, rising to the positions of Senior Research Fellow and
Associate Professor in 1977. In 2000 he was appointed Deputy
Director of the Office of Research and Development, finally taking
over as Director of that Office in May 2005. In 2001, Prof Mazonde
was elected into SARIMA as an executive committee member responsible
for the SADC region. He has been re-elected every year since then.
His role has been to draw in academics from the SADC region into
SARIMA activities. During this time, he has studied the science and
technology situation in the SADC area. In 2005, he presented at both
the SARIMA and the SRA annual general conferences, a research paper
in research management focusing in science and technology in the
southern Africa region. The paper has been published in the SRA
Journal (2005).
Prof Mazonde is also a member of the Board of Directors for the
Rural Industries Promotion Company (RIPCO), one of the three major
technology transfer organizations in Botswana. He continues to
research in science and technology, especially innovation systems of
the southern African economies.
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