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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
The committee will maintain organizational focus around and execution of diversity and inclusion programs including:
- Recommending policy and programs to the IPO Board of Directors consistent with the adopted IPO Membership and Values statement;
- Overseeing and ensuring IPO speaker panels and leadership appointments are diverse and consistent with the adopted IPO Membership and Values statement;
- Overseeing and ensuring that IPO Committees incorporate the adopted D&I vision into their activities and recommendations;
- Creating educational materials including white papers and toolkits to help promote D&I efforts in the IP profession;
- Overseeing the creation and maintenance of resource groups organized around underserved populations in the membership who self-identify/volunteer as being interested in participating in an IPO Resource Group; and
- Working with other IPO Committees to create synergistic projects and programs.
Chair:Alex Oh, Bristol Myers Squibb Company
Chair:Elise Selinger, Caterpillar Inc.
Vice Chair:Bryan Thomas Hart, Brooks Kushman P.C.
Vice Chair:Brian K. Brookey, Honigman LLP
Vice Chair:Natalie Guio, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
Secretary:Alain Godement, Murgitroyd
Secretary:Joanne Lecky, Murgitroyd
Board Liaison:Darryl P. Frickey, Dow Chemical Co.
Staff Liaison:Hannah Denny, Intellectual Property Owners Association
Members
- Christopher CaubleHarness IP
- Amadou Kilkenny DiawKing & Spalding
- Susi J. FishBoult Wade Tennant LLP
- Kevin R. GreenleafDentons
- Kevin R. GreenleafDentons
- Jimmy HuangEast IP
- Christina LeePCK Intellectual Property
- Steph A. MelnychukSteph Melnychuk Coaching
- Kamaram MuniraFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Cyra NargolwallaPlasseraud IP
- Kerry A. NicholsonCantor Colburn LLP
- Garry A. PerryHP Inc.
- John T. PienkosAmundsen Davis, LLC
- David Pointer, IVThomas|Horstemeyer, LLP
- Tony SabetaAird & McBurney LP
- Elaine SpectorHarrity & Harrity, LLP
- Priya SubramonyThermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
- Amy Ashok ThekdiDow Chemical Co.
- Non-Voting Member:Kanako Onishi, Harness IP