Our Team
Firm Principal
Mark Coticchia is a global leader in technology transfer and commercialization who has served as a top innovation executive at Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, Henry Ford Health System, and Baptist Health South Florida. In his career, he has developed groundbreaking new organizations, programs, and deal structures; organized and led technology transfer programs; advised policy makers, universities, and companies; and launched early-stage investment funds. In particular, Mark is an expert dealmaker who has structured, negotiated, and executed hundreds of intellectual property license agreements.
Firm Collaborators
Firm principal Mark Coticchia has put together high-performance teams of experienced practitioners who know how to monetize intellectual property in creative ways. Mark has developed an extensive network of experienced practitioners in the technology, recruitment/talent, and capital industries and markets. These high-performing collaborators provide:
- Legal work and documentation
- R&D management
- Market research and strategy
- Early-stage investment analysis
- Startup services
- Business development
We are dealmakers, builders, experts, advisors, and thought leaders.
Dealmakers who have conducted hundreds of transactions with entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 companies, leading government agencies, R1 research universities & sources of non-dilutive and equity capital.
Builders who have co-led the rise of innovation ecosystems on the Mid-Atlantic and in the Midwest and Southeast.
Experts who have advised organizations internationally and spoken (at home and abroad) about technology management.
Thought leaders who have written extensively about innovation-related topics.
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