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Greg Waite

CEO

Ottawa, ON, CANADA

Greg Waite is an entrepreneur, inventor and angel investor

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Biography

Greg specializes in Intellectual Property and technology commercialization. Starting as a management consultant, he re-engineered Canada's largest management firm for patents, trademarks and invention license agreements (CPDL). Creating one of the first fully automated software systems (that is still in use today), and redefining business processes and created best practices for technology transfer and commercialization. He took those processes and software tools and impacted Canada's largest R&D and patenting groups in both government and commercial venues: NRC, CRC, NRCAN, DRDC, Space Agency, RCMP as well as Mosaid and Wi-LAN.

Greg architected and patented a knowledge management system that is now extensively used to manage processes and best practices for invention assessment, management, intelligence, licensing and acquisition at InventionShare with the goal of delivering high financial and social returns for people and the planet.

Areas of Expertise

Financial & Social LeverageSpin-outBreakthrough TechnologiesBreakthrough Invention FundTechnology CommercializationIntellectual PropertyInformation ManagementBusiness ProcessesInvention CompaniesJoint Ventures/Strategic Partnerships

Education

Carleton University

BA, Finance

Patents

Computer implemented system and method for providing a community and collaboration platform around knowledge transfer, expertise, innovation, tangible assets, intangible assets and information assets

US8589414 B2

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