Senior Counsel - Intellectual Property, Baker Hughes Company
After nearly two decades exclusively as an Intellectual Property Attorney, I have recently branched out my repertoire to become an Entrepreneur (in addition to a solo legal practice).
As an Intellectual Property Attorney, I counsel my clients on various Intellectual Property (IP) related issues concerning acquisition, maintenance and enforcement, including litigation (whether in court or in front of an administrative law judge) and licensing (from non-disclosure agreements to asset purchase agreements). For my clients, I have expanded my expertise to include consultation from a business point-of-view, assisting my clients in not only the legal issues relating to IP, but also the strategic issues associated with monetizing an IP portfolio.
As an Entrepreneur, I own a Property Management business, focusing on residential homes in the Central Texas area. Additionally, I own a boutique fitness studio in Austin, Texas, specializing in kickboxing.
Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP
Principal, Ely & Company, Inc.
Bert Ely has specialized in deposit insurance and banking structure issues since 1981. In 1986, he became an early predictor of the S&L crisis and a taxpayer bailout of the FSLIC. In 1991, he was the first person to correctly predict the non-crisis in commercial banking; in 1992, he predicted an eventual taxpayer bailout of the Japanese banking system.
Bert continuously monitors conditions in the banking and S&L industries, monetary policy, and the growing federalization of credit risk. He has helped to draft legislation to enact the cross-guarantee concept for privatizing banking regulation and its related deposit insurance and systemic risks. He has testified on numerous occasions before congressional committees on banking issues and he often speaks on these matters to bankers and others.
Bert first established his consulting practice in 1972. Before that, he was the chief financial officer of a public company, a consultant with Touche, Ross & Company, and an auditor with Ernst & Ernst. He received his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1968 and his Bachelor's degree in economics in 1964 from Case Western Reserve University.
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