Trade Secret Strategy Summit: New York

Greg leads the Product Counseling function at SimpliSafe, a Boston-based home security company. In this role, he partners with technical and business leaders to navigate the legal and compliance issues that arise throughout the development, launch, and sustainment of SimpliSafe’s hardware, software, and service offerings. His responsibilities span technology, intellectual property, and supply chain matters—covering product development and commercialization, supplier relationships, and operational compliance—with a focus on delivering clear, practical guidance that drives efficient and balanced outcomes.

Before joining SimpliSafe, Greg practiced law in the Boston offices of several international firms, advising clients on strategic patent and trademark portfolio development, IP litigation, and technology transactions. He brings a blend of deep intellectual property expertise and pragmatic judgment to help teams innovate confidently while managing risk responsibly.

Monique Ferraro provides legal and technical expertise in support of HSB Global Cyber Products. Ms. Ferraro’s cybersecurity and privacy experience spans more than twenty-five years in digital forensics, ediscovery, information security and privacy. Ms. Ferraro holds a master’s degree and a JD. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Privacy Professional/US (CIPP/US), Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), and Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU).She also teaches a course on Cyber Space Law at Albany Law School.

Kim Jessum is Chief IP Counsel, Associate General Counsel, and Secretary at Heraeus Incorporated in Yardley, Pennsylvania and VP, Legal at Heraeus Medevio in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Heraeus is a Fortune Global 500 portfolio company specializing in precious metals, materials, sensors, biomaterials, and medical products, as well as quartz glass and specialty light sources. Kim is responsible for providing intellectual property and general legal advice for various business units in the United States and worldwide. She received her bachelors degree in chemical engineering and applied science from Lehigh University and her masters degree in biopharmaceuticals from the University of Pennsylvania. Kim was awarded her law degree and Certificate in Intellectual Property Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Illinois and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She served as the Chair of the ABA Intellectual Property Law Section 2021-22 and is currently Chair of the ABA Section Officers Conference

I am a JD/MBA Attorney with a BS in Computer Science and more than 18 years of in-house legal experience spanning the healthcare, medical device, and technology sectors.

Prior to obtaining my law degree, I worked in IT consulting, beginning my career with IBM Global Services and later founding and operating my own IT services company.

I currently serve as Head of Intellectual Property for two healthcare and medical device subsidiaries of the Japan-based PHC Group: Ascensia Diabetes Care and Epredia. In this role, I am responsible for overseeing global intellectual property portfolios supporting diabetes care products and oncology laboratory equipment. I partner closely with R&D, product development, and business leadership to identify, protect, and strategically leverage intellectual property assets through patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secret programs.

Prior to joining PHC Group, I was a member of the in-house legal teams at IBM and IQVIA, where I worked directly with inventors and business leaders on all aspects of intellectual property development, protection, and enforcement.

In addition to portfolio management, I actively educate employees on the importance of intellectual property protection and the practical methods that support those protections,

I am a Registered Patent Attorney and am admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut, and registered as in-house counsel in New Jersey.

Jodie is Chief Counsel of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), a public benefit corporation that develops the WELL Building Standard.  In her role, Jodie counsels the executive team on strategic initiatives, recommends standards body governance best practices, negotiates global transactions, liaises with key strategic partners and customers, leads policies to protect proprietary assets and advises on AI governance and data protection matters.

Jodie has extensive experience advising corporate and nonprofit clients on complex commercial and technology transactions as well as intellectual property, privacy and data security matters. Prior to joining IWBI, she counseled American International Group, Inc.’s various business units on technology and other corporate transactions. As Senior Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Jodie advised clients on intellectual property, privacy and data security aspects of complex, global mergers and acquisitions, financings and strategic alliances; and supervised discovery matters and motion practice in commercial litigation.

Elaine is Bell Labs Solutions, Strategic Partnerships and Technology Leadership Office Lead Counsel at Nokia. She has decades of experience working with world class scientists, inventors, and leading intellectual property professionals across the ecosystem of technology law and policy

Harry Halikias, Author of “Digital Shakedown: The Complete Guide to Understanding and Combating Ransomware,” has over 15 years of dedicated IT, security, and privacy service. He is an experienced business leader known for developing and implementing robust cybersecurity and privacy strategies. His expertise is underpinned by a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity and industry-leading certifications, including CISSP and CIPP/US, complemented by a continuous learning journey through professional development and industry engagement. A deep-seated commitment to privacy as a fundamental right is at the core of Harry’s professional ethos. This conviction drives Harry to create security programs that protect and add substantial value to organizations.

Glen Sproviero heads Verizon’s global ethics organization, where he is senior director and associate general counsel.  Prior to his current role, he was a litigator in New York, specializing in white collar criminal defense and investigations.  A former federal law clerk, he received an A.B. in philosophy from Fordham University, an M.Phil. in Intellectual History from the University of St Andrews (Scotland), and a J.D. from Rutgers.

Imtiaz Khan is a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Financial and Valuation Advisory business and leads IP Valuation & Advisory Services. With over 12 years of experience in valuation, modeling, and strategic consulting, he advises clients on assessing, monetizing, and optimizing the value of intangible assets across a broad range of industries and transaction contexts. His expertise spans IP valuation, strategic advisory, licensing structure design, litigation support, data valuation, and Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) economics.

Imtiaz focuses on helping companies, investors, and rights holders unlock the value of IP and other intangible assets to drive growth, improve financing outcomes, and enhance competitive advantage.

Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Imtiaz was a Senior Director in Aon’s IP Solutions practice, leading IP valuations and portfolio monitoring initiatives. He previously advised on valuation and transaction strategies within Aon’s Strategic Advisory and M&A Solutions practices and began his career as a fixed income trader at Ronin Capital in Chicago.

Mr. Khan holds a B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, from Lawrence University. He has also been recognized in the IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists and IAM 300: Global Leaders for his contributions to the field of IP valuation and strategy.

RONALD J. PRAGUE is Chief Legal Officer at Origin Wireless, Inc., a technology company located in Maryland. www.originwirelessai.com, where is responsible for a all of the company’s legal affairs. Prior to Origin, Mr. Prague was Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., a publicly-held software and services company. Prior to Synchronoss, Mr. Prague held several positions with Intel Corporation, lastly as Group Counsel for Intel’s Communication Infrastructure Group. Mr. Prague also practice law with the New York law firms of Haythe & Curley (now Torys LLP) and Richards & O’Neil (now Bingham McCutchen) where he focused on mergers & acquisition, securities and intellectual property and matters.

Mr. Prague is a frequent speaker and has over 25 years of experience doing global transactions in the telecommunications market. He is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law and received a B.S., with distinction from Cornell University.

Maharaj Mukherjee, a Master Inventor emeritus from IBM has a PhD in Computer and Systems Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MS from University at Stony Brook, and a B-Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur. He has done his PhD work with Professor George Nagy who had worked with Professor Frank Rosenblatt (the Father of Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network) for his own PhD thesis in 1950s in development of the first neural network model.

Maharaj has been working for the Bank of America in the Global Technology organization for past six and half years working in areas of natural and formal language translation, transliteration, transpilation and Digital Twins related to edge computing, metaverse, and Internet of Things.

Before joining the Bank of America, he had worked for IBM Research for twenty years. He has also been the chair of IBM’s Internet of Things Invention Development Team. He was a member of IBM’s Academy of Technology. Before that he served as a faculty at the Electrical and Electronics Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur.

He has also spent a year at the Max Plank Institute of Informatics at Saarbrucken, Germany as a Humboldt fellow.

His main areas of interest include Deep Learning and Cognitive Analytics as applied to Internet of Things, Geometric Algorithms and its applications within the fields of big data and Analytics, Block Chain and Open Ledger and its application on IOT, Smarter Planet and Internet of Everything, CAD/CAM/CAE, and Electronic Design Automation.

Maharaj Mukherjee now holds 209 US granted patents and is now recognized as one of the most prolific inventors of the world. He has been the top inventor of the Bank of America for the past two consecutive years and one of the top three inventors of the Bank of America in 2020. He is a Master Inventor Emeritus at IBM which he became after being selected as a Master Inventor three times consecutively at IBM.  He is also inducted at IBM’s Inventor Wall of Fame at the IBM East Fishkill site in New York. He holds 150 US patents and as well as 100 patents in other countries including, Germany, UK, France, Italy, China, Korea, Japan, and Brazil. One of his patents on Predictive Traffic Modeling has been chosen by IBM as one of the best twenty patents from past twenty years. Maharaj has also received the valuable patent award – that is awarded to top 1% patents in IBM every year– five times. Maharaj has mentored several new inventors who had filed patents and patent applications. Two of Maharaj’s mentees have become Master Inventors, themselves, in 2017.  Maharaj has given several invited presentations including the Keynote presentation at the Computational Intelligence and Networking (CINE-2015) Conference in January 2015 and Center-force IP Conferences.

Maharaj currently serves in the Awards Committee of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE ). He is the only voting member from USA and one of the six voting members worldwide. Hs is also in the IEEE USA Awards committee. . He also serves as the Professional Activities Chair of IEEE Region 1. He previously served as the Central Area Chair for IEEE region 1, chair of the IEEE Mid-Hudson Section, PACE chair for the IEEE Mid-Hudson Section and the Secretary for the IEEE Kharagpur Section.

Anthony MacDonald Caputo is a complex commercial litigator with experience in financial products and securities litigation in both state and federal courts. Leveraging his extensive familiarity with complex financial and securities disputes, Mac is also a formidable trade secret litigator, and has defended and pursued trade secret misappropriation claims in the financial technology, software, and cryptocurrency space. Mac has also handled a wide array of commercial, contract, and fraud matters, and has accrued extensive trial experience, representing and successfully litigating against some of the largest financial institutions in the world.

Matthew F. Prewitt is a trial lawyer with a national practice focused on the law governing confidential business and personal information and the IT systems used to store, analyze, and transmit that data. Matt is Co-Leader of the Trade Secrets, Noncompetes & Employee Mobility group.

Daniel P. Moylan represents businesses and individuals in a range of complex litigation matters, including disputes in the areas of intellectual property, health care and pharmaceuticals. Dan’s recent work includes defending clients in software licensing disputes involving technologies in the transportation, health care and pharmaceutical industries. He has served as first-chair trial counsel in federal jury trials and in arbitrations; and he regularly coordinates joint efforts of lawyers and experts in matters related to the development and distribution of pharmaceuticals, including in multidistrict litigation and international arbitration.

As a Washington-based litigator and investigations lawyer, Ivano Ventresca has played key roles in numerous high-profile representations of athletes, politicians, government influencers, and corporations. Recognized for his ability to untangle complex issues and to develop effective legal strategies, Ivano is frequently called upon to distill case themes into clear, compelling arguments – whether in briefs or in the courtroom.