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Founder & CEO
Kyeongsu Im
KS is responsible for corporate management and investor relations at Ideahub. KS has over 20 years' experience in patent acquisition and monetization in the CE and Telecommunication industries.
KS started his career at the IP Center of LG Electronics and has worked for various intellectual property and licensing companies for over 27 years. During his career, he successfully completed more than 100 patent acquisition deals and generated over $150M in patent licensing revenues.
He earned his bachelor of electrical engineering degree from Yonsei University and juris doctorate degree from Yonsei and George Washington University
ks.im@ideahub.co.kr
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CFO
Daniel Carlineo
Dan serves as General Counsel and oversees legal and patent monetization matters for IdeaHub. Dan brings an electrical engineering background and extensive licensing, litigation, and patent acquisition experience to IdeaHub. He has negotiated and drafted hundreds of license and patent acquisition agreements with aggregate dollar amounts exceeding $1 billion.
On the litigation front, Dan has first chair trial experience in both federal district court and the USITC and worked as a damage expert. He has been named to IAM's World’s Leading IP Strategists and Asia Law & Practice’s Leading Lawyers on multiple occasions and is on the Advisory Council for the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Master’s in IP Management in Markets program.
Prior to IdeaHub, Dan was the CEO of Global OLED Technologies, SVP and General Counsel of Technology, Patents & Licensing, and an attorney in the Washington, DC offices of Carlineo, Kee PLLC, Howrey, LLP and Morgan Lewis, LLP.
He is a graduate of Binghamton University (BSEE) and the University of Cincinnati College of Law (JD, Law Review).
dcarlineo@ideahub.co.kr
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COO / CTO
Yang-Won Jung
Yang-Won serves as CTO/Senior Vice President and Head of IP Engineering Lab at Ideahub. At Ideahub, he manages the IP Engineering Lab, which provides technical services to various IP monetization projects of Ideahub and its subsidiaries, including communication, cloud computing, video codec, and semiconductor packaging.
He has over twenty years of experience in technology, innovation, intellectual property and project management. As a prolific inventor, he has been named on hundreds patents/patent applications including 100+ US patents in the fields of communication, networks, multimedia, cloud computing, social media, human-machine interface, security, etc.
Prior to joining Ideahub, he worked as Vice President for Intellectual Ventures (IV) and managed 100+ innovators from 6 countries, reviewed thousands of inventions, and completed acquisitions of over 200+ patents.
He has a Ph.D. from Yonsei University in Electrical Engineering.
yw.jung@ideahub.co.kr
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COO
Bill Geary
Bill Geary is executive vice president of acquisition and business development at IDEAHUB Inc. He has more than 30 years of patent licensing, litigation, and patent pool experience. Previously, from 2006 to 2023, he was vice president of business development at MPEG LA, responsible for creating and launching patent pools. From 1995 to 2006 he worked for Samsung Electronics as general patent counsel and head of the Samsung Washington DC office, responsible for patent licensing and litigation. He has a law degree, JD, from Washington and Lee University, an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology, post-graduate work in electrical engineering, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and BS in electrical engineering from Tulane University.
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Licensing Executive
& President of Ideahub affiliates
Robert Colao
Bob serves as a President of an IdeaHub affiliate.
He has over 20 years of executive experience in the area of IP licensing and monetization. As Director of Outbound Patent Licensing at Nokia Inc., Bob led Nokia’s Global Outbound Patent Licensing organization and activities, and held the position of Director of International Licensing with IBM’s Corporate Intellectual Property Licensing organization.
Bob has been a member of the Executive Advisors Network (XAN) for Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV) at Columbia University, working with/mentoring entrepreneurs and inventors at the University on aspects of IP.
Bob holds BS/MS in Electrical Engineering and MBA degrees
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Licensing Executive
& President of Ideahub affiliates
Emil Kim
Emil serves as a President of an IdeaHub affiliate. He is primarily focused on patent licensing monetization in the media and technology space.
Emil has over twenty years of experience in the patent field, including patent litigation, patent acquisitions, and complex licensing negotiations, with a particular emphasis in licensing monetization in the media and entertainment industry.
Prior to joining Ideahub, Emil began his career as an attorney at various law firms, including Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, before moving in-house as senior director of licensing for a leading technology company in Silicon Valley.
He holds degrees from both University of California, Davis (BS) and University of California, Hastings (JD).
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Licensing Executive
& President of Ideahub affiliates
Pep Kim
Pep serves as President of an IdeaHub affiliate.
He oversees patent licensing for telecommunications technology.
Pep has over 20 years of experience in patent litigation and SEP licensing, including Director for MPEG LA.
He received a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.
He also earned his M.B.A. from Sung Kyun Kwan University and B.S. in electrical engineering from Korea University.
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Licensing Executive
& President of Ideahub affiliates
Juan M. Gisone
Juan serves as President of an IdeaHub affiliate. He has 18 years of experience in patent portfolio management and monetization, including 10 years leading outbound licensing programs. At IBM, Juan closed multi-million cross-license and patent sales transactions. At Global OLED Technology (subsidiary of LG Display), Juan managed existing license administration, new business development, and assertion strategy. Juan began his career in patents managing portfolio assessment projects focused on infringement detection. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Rutgers University and is also a registered patent agent.
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Licensing Executive
& President of Ideahub affiliates
Bruce G. Bernstein
Bruce serves as Licensing Executive of IdeaHub and President of an IdeaHub affiliate. He has over 30 years of experience developing, monetizing and investing in intellectual property assets and has particular expertise in creating and growing licensing businesses for small to medium sized companies that have a core technology focus and related IP portfolio.
Prior to joining IdeaHub, Bruce held the positions of Chief IP Counsel for Coller Capital, a leading global investor in private equity’s secondary market, Chief Intellectual Property and Licensing Officer for InterDigital Communications Corporation, a wireless technology development company, and Head of Patents for BTG International Inc., a leading publicly listed technology development and licensing company. He was also in private practice as a patent lawyer at the firms of The Law Office of Bruce G. Bernstein, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, and Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner.
Bruce has a BSEE degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD degree from the American University. He is a member of the DC and NJ bars and is registered to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office.