Program Sponsors

Kley Achterhof, IP Attorney.
Mr. Achterhof's practice emphasizes intellectual property (IP) law, entrepreneurial law and the legal needs of new and growing companies. He focuses on patent, copyright, and trademark law; business entity formation; securities; and general business law. Mr. Achterhof counsels clients on IP strategy and portfolio management; provides opinions of counsel on patentability, infringement and validity; and represents clients with business litigation issues.

Jason Christie, Co-Founder & Director, AsiaPacific Access, LLC.
Jason Christie is bilingual (Mandarin Chinese and English) and has over ten years of business experience in Asia. He was worked in manufacturing, sales, marketing, sourcing and as a program manager. Jason lived in Beijing in 1996 and in Shanghai from 1998 thru 2002. Since 2004, Jason has spent more than half of his time in China working on client projects. His industry experience includes wireless, manufacturing, and software. Jason is co-founder and director of AsiaPacific Access, LLC. AsiaPacific Access helps companies identify, qualify, engage and manage their partners in China. Jason provides consulting and program management services to clients focused primarily on developing business relationships between China and the United States of America.

Anne Feiler, Supervising Researcher, SearchQuest Patent Search™.
Anne Feiler, Supervising Patent Searcher at SearchQuest, earned a BA in Business Administration and an MS in Library and Information Science. She has been a researcher in a wide variety of areas for over 25 years, including patent searching, market/industry research and analysis, and competitive intelligence. (Her spare time is spent with her dogs, reading, and hiking.)

Rita Crompton, FLeCusa International.
Over the past twenty years, Ms. Crompton has started, or helped to start, no less than five successful businesses in four distinct and unrelated industries. Because of her superior marketing skills and the business relationships she has established and nurtured in the national marketplace, Ms. Crompton and her company FLeCusa, Inc. provide a unique service to clients wishing to enter the marketplace or grow their business to a new level, nationally or internationally. www.flecusa.com www.inventorsroundtable.com.

Doug Collins, OTB Design.
Doug has 12 years experience designing consumer products and industrial mechanisms while managing projects and project teams. During his career, Doug has performed in a number of capacities, such as Project Manager, Research Assistant, Operations Engineer, Project Engineer, Plant Manager, Design Engineer, Product Development Engineer, Functional Test Fixture Design Engineer, and Engineering Manager in a variety of industries.

Ian Osborn, Inventor & and Founder, Wild Ideas Light Company.
Ian is a successful inventor and manufacturer. His area of expertise is electrical circuitry and LED lighting. He has done custom circuitry and lighting for a variety of designers and architects before patenting his own designs. Ian currently has four patents pending using his unique high-intensity miniature products. As president of Wild Ideas Light Company, Ian Osborn has manufactured products in both China and the US. The most difficult part of manufacturing overseas is maintaining good quality control. This is much easier to manage right here in the US. Ian now has all of his products manufactured right here in Colorado. Learn how to identify manufacturers right here in the US for products that used to be more cheaply done overseas. Learn the right way to manage your project for the best results.

Randy Tagg, University of Colorado at Denver/Co-Director, Community Prototyping Lab.
Randy Tagg is the Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Physics, at the University of Colorado at Denver, and Co-Director of the Community Prototyping Lab. He is a recipient of 2006- 2009 Grant from National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) entitled "From Science to Prototype: Out-Of-The-Box Thinking for Medical Technology". The objective of the program funded by this grant is to involve undergraduate teams in developing biomedical instrumentation. An example: a light scattering method to characterize epithelial cell layers.

Bruce Dawson, President, Liquid Capital Colorado
Bruce has spearheaded, structured, launched and assumed full P&L responsibility for the complete start-up of multiple businesses including a national energy company that quickly evolved into one of the most successful organically-grown commercial and residential retail energy businesses in the US energy industry. Liquid Capital of Colorado provides working Capital and Lines of Credit to emerging and transforming businesses of any size. www.liquidcapitalofco.com.