Charles Brumlik, J.D., Ph.D.

Charles Brumlik advises multinational corporations, investors, startups, and governments on technology assessment and commercialization.

Dr. Brumlik is focused on commercialization, due diligence, and technology sourcing in alternate energy, materials, cleantech and nanotechnology. Application areas include membranes, separations, chemical functionalization, ultrafine particles, high surface area materials, cermets, displays, solid state lighting, sensors, and electronics.

As a business attorney, he advises international technology companies, startups, and venture capital groups. At ExxonMobil, Honeywell, and a Princeton law firm, he specialized in transactional and patent issues in chemistry and materials science commercialization for corporations, academia, and governments.

Commencing with his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Nanochemistry and Nanomaterials” at Texas A&M, Dr. Brumlik has over 20 years of experience working with nanotechnology. As a postdoc at Colorado State University, he published widely on creating and testing materials, devices and systems in the nano and meso scale. He also collaborated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and international academic, government, and corporate research groups.

Dr. Brumlik has over 20 nanotechnology publications and patents on materials and materials modifications including nanoparticle hydrogen storage, electrochemical energy storage, and related processes. He has extensive research experience in membrane materials. He made nano and mesoporous inorganic, organic, and mixed membranes by nuclear track-etch, anodic alumina, and particulate processes; and nonporous separation membranes by chemical, electrochemical, plasma polymerization and solution casting processes. He made anisotropic high flux membranes with insitu surface modification.

From early in his career, Brumlik assisted in the creation and operation of startup companies for molecular models, energy, business methods, electrically conducting composites, food chemistry. His hands on consulting also includes providing prototype materials and advanced patent/competitive intelligence/market research. He earned a law degree at New York Law. His legal career started as a registered patent attorney and developed to include technology transfer, sponsored research, joint ventures, international business transactions, due diligence and related business law. Brumlik has dual U.S.-E.U. citizenship and is fluent in French.

Dana Durham, Ph.D.

durham@nanobizllc.com
(908) 752-2976

Dana Durham is an R&D executive with experience leading global R&D and business organizations at Fortune 500 companies -- Hoechst Celanese, Clariant, Ashland and most recently Air Products where he served as Director of Technology for the Electronics Division and conductive polymers program.

Dr. Durham has been involved in the design, development, scale-up and technical service of performance products for the semiconductor, flat panel display and emerging electronics markets for more than 25 years. He has extensive knowledge of photoresists, antireflective coatings, wafer cleaning chemicals, CVD/ALD, reactive ion etching, conductive polymers. He has expertise with the lithographic process and associated metrology. Further, his recent experience in conductive polymers has provided an expertise in the design, synthesis and manufacture of materials for OLED, OPV and SSL as well as these industries.

Dr. Durham has extensive experience in Product Life Cycle management with a particular focus on the rapid commercialization and introduction of new products. His entire career has dealt with performance products; hence, he as an expertise in translating technology needs into product requirements.

As the ranking technology officer in a number of businesses, he has also served on the business teams of embryonic and mature businesses. He has full understanding of the importance of technology to the development, vitality and re-invention of businesses.
Dr. Durham has nearly 40 patents covering small molecules, polymers, and formulations in the areas of photoresist, antireflective coatings, and wafer cleaning chemicals. He holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry.

Areas of expertise include:

• R&D executive at multiple Fortune 500 Companies
• More than 25 years experience in the design, development, scale-up and technical service of performance products for the semiconductor, flat panel display and emerging electronics industries
• Extensive experience in Product Life Cycle management with a particular focus on the rapid commercialization and introduction of new products
• Served on the business teams of embryonic and mature businesses
• Extensive experience in strategy development
  

Samuel Brauer, Ph.D.

brauer@nanobizllc.com
(203) 968-8899

Samuel Brauer focuses on the business of nanotechnology offering analysis and operational assistance in this burgeoning field to major corporations, small materials companies, venture and angel investors, and other financial institutions.

Previously, Dr. Brauer was with the Business Communications Company for 7 years, leading market research on a broad range of advanced materials topics including polymer nanocomposites, carbon nanotubes, advanced polymer composites, smart materials and switchable materials. Clients from academe, industry, and government organizations have purchased reports his reports. These organizations range from major corporations including DuPont, 3M, GE, Engelhard, Cytec, W.L. Gore, and Dow; government organizations such as NASA and numerous smaller companies as well as academic institutions. He was the source of quotes in Fortune, Forbes, Business 2.0, BBC, Boston Globe, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Chemical and Engineering News, Chemical Market Reporter and Small Times Magazine. Dr. Brauer has spoken widely on nanotechnology:

• Plenary Speaker on Nanotechnology at the American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in New Orleans
• Invited speaker at a joint meeting of the Chemist's Club and the Association of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers
• Other conference presentations on specific topics include nanotubes and polymer nanocomposites.

Dr. Brauer received his doctorate in bio-inorganic chemistry from Dartmouth (Thesis advisor was Karen Wetterhahn) in 1990 and was a postdoctoral fellow with Professors Gerd LaMar and Thomas Jue at the University of California, Davis.

STRATEGIC PARTNERS

David M. Gange, Ph.D.

gange@nanobizllc.com
(609) 730-1800

For over twenty years David has worked in the areas of chemical information management, chemistry searching, and patent searching. An author of more than thirty patents and publications, he was awarded U.S. Patent 7,251,643 for a new method of chemical database searching in 2007. His clients include law firms, chemical companies, pharmaceutical companies, and biotech companies. David's searching specialties include pharmaceuticals, small molecules, and medical devices. Past projects include novelty searching, competitive intelligence, M & A due diligence, infringement analysis, and state-of-the-art surveys.

David received his Bachelor of Science with Honors in Chemistry from Tulane University. After graduating from Tulane, he went on to receive a Ph.D. in organic synthesis from The Ohio State University and completed postdoctoral studies at Columbia University.

David is a Registered Patent Agent, and a member of: American Chemical Society, Association of Independent Information Professionals, and the Patent Information Users Group.

Chemistry Patent Search

www.ChemistryPatentSearch.com

Chemistry Patent Search specializes in searching and analyzing chemical information:

• Chemical Technology
• Pharmaceutical Technology
• Nanochemical Technology

They search the issued patents and patent application publications of all major issuing authorities:

• United States Patent Office
• European Patent Office
• World Intellectual Property Organization
• Japanese Patent Office

They specialize in Chemical Structure Searching using:

• Chemical Abstracts CAPlus database
• Chemical Abstracts MarPat Markush database
• Questel Merged Markush Service
• Derwent World Patents Index

They perform Chemical Structure Searches to ensure that key chemical information is retrieved despite chemical name variations or patent classification quirks.
But they don’t stop there. At Chemistry Patent Search we use a combination of keyword searching, patent classification searching, citation searching, and chemical structure searching. By using a combination of techniques, we ensure a thorough search, and relevant results. Results that provide the information you need to make the right decision when the stakes are high.

Allatus Techno-Legal Solutions (P) Ltd

www.allatustls.com

Allatus is a boutique intellectual property firm specializing in search, analytics, and consulting. Their unique teams of technology assessment searchers with commercialization domain experts enables extremely thorough and applied results.

Features include:

• Deep domain expertise through extensive network of international experts.
• High level expertise in technology commercialization; not just searching.
• High value-to-cost ratio by leveraging top Indian and U.S. searchers with targeted advice from top international experts.
• Unusual combination of market searchers with IP searchers to take
  advantage of synergies between search methodologies.

Dendrimer Patent Analysis

Technology Distribution

TIPRA

www.tipra.com

TIPRA is a managed, invitation-only global network of world-class senior experts in selected economically-important high-tech focus areas. TIPRA network members are individually selected for their deep competence and high professionalism.

TIPRA leverages the deep technical and business expertise of its network members to deliver the following solutions to clients:

• Strategic consulting and advisory services
• Legal and regulatory expert services
• Intellectual property commercialization and brokerage
• Market entry services and new market development

Their network members typically have over 15 years of experience in their respective focus areas, having held leadership roles in both large and small businesses and academia. TIPRA network members have delivered hundreds of consulting projects in their fields in the last few years. They work with C-level managers of companies, investors, regulators, standards and industry forums, to provide answers and solutions for complex technology and business problems.

Greg Magel, Ph.D.

Nanobiz-TIPRA Liaison
gmagel@tipra.com

Dr. Magel is a seasoned technology development leader and inventor. His areas of technical expertise encompass optical and photonic devices and systems including fiber optic switches, electronics and microtechnology (integrated circuits and MEMS), electronic and photonic packaging, and nanotechnology, and the interfaces between these disciplines.

He has served as Chairman of the Photonics Division of the Optical Society of America, and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is an inventor on 19 issued and several pending U.S. patents, beginning at Stanford University, continuing through a career in corporate research and development at Texas Instruments (TI) and Corning, and more recently as an advisor to several small technology companies.

Dr. Magel has served on patent committees at TI and Corning, performing technical and IP due diligence in M&A transactions, licensing of patent portfolios, formulating patent strategy, acting as a liaison between C-level officers and patent counsel, writing patent applications, and performing prior art searches. As vice president of technology for an optical networking equipment start-up, he guided corporate intellectual property strategy, strengthened the existing portfolio with further filings, orchestrated foreign filings, established an invention disclosure and patent award process, and set research priorities and led proof-of-concept development. Dr. Magel is registered to practice before the USPTO as a Patent Agent.

Greg received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Rice University and earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.