- Larry Udell
- Lawrence J. Udell is Executive Director of both the Center For New Venture Alliance and the California Invention Center. He has created and taught "New Ventures and Entrepreneurship" courses for over 30 years, plus a special course on, "Technology Marketing" at the Cal-State Hayward, School of Business and Economics. He served as a Lecturing Professor at U.C. Berkeley, teaching a course on Technology Transfer & Commercialization, and has also taught other courses for other universities in the U. S. and Canada. He is an active member of the Licensing Executives Society, and is co-founder and managing director of the Silicon Valley Chapter of LES. Founder of over 20 corporations, he also provides consulting to both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, plus lectures frequently at inventor, corporate and government functions throughout America and in other countries for the World Intellectual Property Organization (United Nations).
- Sean Ross
- Sean Ross is Edison Media Research’s Vice President of Music and Programming. A longtime industry observer, Ross works with Edison’s radio and music industry clients, offering analysis and music knowledge that goes beyond the numbers. Before joining Edison, Ross was editor-in-chief of Billboard Magazine’s radio programming pblication, Airplay Monitor. He has also been radio editor of Billboard, Oldies editor and associate R&B editor at Radio & Records and a co-author of the M Street Journal. In addition, he was PD in 1993-95 of pioneering R&B Oldies outlet WGCI-AM Chicago and an A&R manager for Hip-Hop label Profile Records. Ross is also the author of numerous liner notes for compilation and greatest hits albums and is a recognized industry expert on music and radio who has been quoted in USA Today, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, NBC, the Associated Press and numerous other news organizations. Ross has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Michigan. He is also an ‘01 graduate of the music industry training program Leadership Music.
- Steve Cowper
- Steve Cowper was born in Virginia and educated at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where he earned BA and JD degrees. He was an Assistant District Attorney in Fairbanks, Alaska, and, from 1971 to 1986, managing partner in the firm of Cowper & Madson.
From 1975-1978 Steve served in the Alaska House of Representatives, where he was Chairman of the Finance Committee. In 1984-1985 he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, a $36 billion public investment fund.
In 1986 Steve Cowper was elected Governor of Alaska, where his administration stabilized the state budget and instituted financial reforms, instituted an aggressive and highly successful international trade policy, recruited airfreight carriers to establish Anchorage as one of the largest airfreight terminals in the world, managed the Exxon Valdez oil spill and successfully lobbied the US Congress for major oil-spill legislation, and opened up the Russian Far East for trade with Alaska and other Western States.
In 1989 Steve was named one of the nation's top ten governors by Al Neuharth, publisher of USA Today. With his agenda largely accomplished, he did not run for re-election in 1990.
Since 1992 Steve has been CEO of Steve Cowper & Associates, an international consulting firm and US government contractor specializing in energy-related problems. He is also North American Chairman for the Northeast Asia Economic Forum, which sponsors an ongoing discussion among industry, government and academic leaders from six nations on large trans-boundary energy projects.
Steve Cowper is Chairman of Wescorp Energy, an oilfield service company located in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, and Houston, Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas, and Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Richard Hsu
- Mr. Hsu is a Partner at the law firm of Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP in Palo Alto and Chair of the firm's Technology Transactions Practice. He has extensive experience in licensing, development, acquisitions, service, purchase and other partnering agreements for a variety of industries, including semiconductors, life sciences, medical devices, hardware, software, nanotechnology, entertainment, multimedia and telecommunications. Prior to joining Townsend, Mr. Hsu was a Senior Attorney at Venture Law Group and former general counsel at Cyrano Sciences, Inc. (acquired by Smiths Detection), a venture-backed company founded by Caltech Nobel Laureate Robert H. Grubbs. Mr. Hsu holds degrees from Columbia Law School (JD) and Caltech (BS).
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