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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee

The committee will maintain organizational focus around and execution of diversity and inclusion programs including:

  1. Recommending policy and programs to the IPO Board of Directors consistent with the adopted IPO Membership and Values statement;
  2. Overseeing and ensuring IPO speaker panels and leadership appointments are diverse and consistent with the adopted IPO Membership and Values statement;
  3. Overseeing and ensuring that IPO Committees incorporate the adopted D&I vision into their activities and recommendations;
  4. Creating educational materials including white papers and toolkits to help promote D&I efforts in the IP profession;
  5. 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
  6. 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:Elaine Spector, Harrity & Harrity, LLP

Vice Chair:Claudia W. Stangle, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.

Vice Chair:Natalie Guio, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.

Vice Chair:Carlyn Burton, Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP

Secretary:Bryan Thomas Hart, Bejin Bieneman, PLC

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
  • Brian K. BrookeyTucker Ellis LLP
  • Michelle Bugbee 
  • Pina CampagnaCarter, DeLuca, Farrell LLP
  • Maeve M. CarpenterIBM Corp.
  • Christopher CaubleHarness IP
  • Randall CollinsHP Inc.
  • Shruti S. CostalesShruti Law PLLC
  • Atanu DasGuntin & Gust
  • Bennett DavidPolsinelli
  • Walter Davis, Jr.Blank Rome LLP
  • Susi J. FishBoult Wade Tennant LLP
  • Mario Andres GaviriaLeydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
  • Christina LeePCK Intellectual Property
  • Charles H. MottierLeydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
  • Lisa MuellerCasimir Jones
  • Kerry A. NicholsonCantor Colburn LLP
  • Garry A. PerryHP Inc.
  • Barbara N. RigbyBoult Wade Tennant LLP
  • Ritu SinghDinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • Alex StephensonBoult Wade Tennant LLP
  • Christopher SuarezSteptoe & Johnson LLP
  • Priya SubramonyThermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
  • Jim ThomasFletcher Yoder
  • Herbert C. Wamsley 
  • Non-Voting Member:Jennifer Rice Knight, Clements Bernard Walker
  • Non-Voting Member:Joanne Lecky, Murgitroyd
  • Non-Voting Member:John T. Pienkos, Amundsen Davis, LLC