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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:Serena I. Farquharson-Torres, Bristol Myers Squibb Company
Chair:Elise Selinger, Caterpillar Inc.
Vice Chair:Bryan Thomas Hart, Brooks Kushman P.C.
Vice Chair:Elaine Spector, Harrity & Harrity, LLP
Vice Chair:Natalie Guio, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
Vice Chair:Brian K. Brookey, Tucker Ellis LLP
Secretary:Joanne Lecky, Murgitroyd
Board Liaison:Darryl P. Frickey, Dow Chemical Co.
Staff Liaison:Hannah Denny, Intellectual Property Owners Association
Members
- Annette BadeThe Boeing Co.
- Nivita BeriDinsmore & Shohl LLP
- Ella BlanquetElkington & Fife LLP
- Michelle Bugbee
- Carlyn BurtonOsha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP
- Pina CampagnaCarter, DeLuca, Farrell LLP
- Isabella De Amorim CardozoDaniel Law
- Rachel CarnaggioHolland & Hart LLP
- Maeve M. CarpenterIBM Corp.
- Jillian CarterPCK Intellectual Property
- Christopher CaubleHarness IP
- Randall CollinsHP Inc.
- Shruti S. CostalesShruti Law PLLC
- Joseph CurcuruIBM Corp.
- Atanu DasGuntin & Gust
- Bennett DavidPolsinelli
- Walter Davis, Jr.Blank Rome LLP
- João Vitor EstevesRNA Law
- Susi J. FishBoult Wade Tennant LLP
- Sandra A. FrantzenMcAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd.
- Mario Andres GaviriaFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Alain GodementMurgitroyd
- Kevin R. GreenleafDentons
- Bethan HalliwellWithers & Rogers LLP
- Justin KhanBorden Ladner Gervais, LLP
- Sunah LeeMicrosoft Corporation
- Christina LeePCK Intellectual Property
- Charles H. MottierLeydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
- Lisa MuellerCasimir Jones
- Kerry A. NicholsonCantor Colburn LLP
- Garry A. PerryHP Inc.
- Jayne PianaBrown Rudnick LLP
- Barbara N. RigbyBoult Wade Tennant LLP
- John SalazarGray Ice Higdon, PLLC
- Ritu SinghDinsmore & Shohl LLP
- Claudia W. StangleLeydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
- Alex StephensonBoult Wade Tennant LLP
- Christopher SuarezSteptoe LLP
- Priya SubramonyThermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
- Laura D. Talley GeyerND Galli Law LLC
- Jim ThomasFletcher Yoder
- Herbert C. Wamsley
- Rowena YoungAdeia
- Non-Voting Member:Phil Harris, Holland & Hart LLP
- Non-Voting Member:Jennifer Rice Knight, Clements Bernard Walker
- Non-Voting Member:John T. Pienkos, Amundsen Davis, LLC