Bob has been in the business of intellectual property since 1998 and has orchestrated hundreds of IP transactions around the world in multiple industries.
Bob has been active in the Licensing Executives Society (LES USA & Canada) since 1998 having served on the Board of Directors from 2012-2020, and most recently as Past President and Chair of the LES Board of Directors 2018-2019. Other notable LES roles have been in Sector leadership, meetings planning, co-chair & co-author of the High-Tech Sector Royalty Rate and Deal Terms Surveys for 2011, 2014 & 2017 and Senior Vice President –Business Continuity. Bob currently holds the position of Senior Vice President – Sponsorship on the LES Board Management Council.
Bob is the President of Held Intellectual Property, LLC, a full-service intellectual property business consulting firm – www.heldip.com. From 2011 to 2016 he worked for TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) in Annapolis, Maryland as the Vice President, Intellectual Asset Management, responsible for the strategic management and monetization of TCS’s IP portfolio. All assets of TCS were acquired in February 2016. Immediately prior to joining TCS, Bob worked for Northrop Grumman Corporation, Electronic Systems Sector from 2003-2011 as the Director of the Intellectual Property & Strategic Technology Agreements business unit; and from 1998-2003 he worked at the IP firm British Technology Group (BTG) International.
Bob has been a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) since 2008 and was named to the “IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists” from 2015 through 2020. Bob received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Villanova University and his MBA from Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.