Jeff is a registered US Patent Agent and a leading expert in Intellectual Asset law and strategy. He comes to Innovationedge from Kimberly-Clark, where Jeff was one of the most prolific inventors in company history with 101 granted US patents and more pending. After becoming the company’s Corporate Patent Strategist and Senior Research Fellow, Jeff developed and advanced the concept of “Disruptive Intellectual Asset Strategy,” where intellectual assets are used to overcome normal barriers to disruptive innovation. Jeff founded and chaired an Intellectual Asset group dedicated to identifying and protecting “business methods,” and guided Kimberly-Clark in pursuing an aggressive publications strategy.

Jeff also founded a broad community of practice, the Intellectual Property Chapter, which brings together researchers, managers, and legal practitioners to mentor, network, strengthen best practices and influence decisions. He is currently Chair of the Forest Bioproducts Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Jeff is also a member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES).

Prior to joining Kimberly-Clark, Jeff was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology on the Georgia Tech Campus, where he was named Teacher of the Year in 1993 and received several Best Paper awards for his research. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, and was named the Outstanding Alumnus of 2004 for the Chemical Engineering Department.