Location Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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John has over 25 years of success translating scientific and technical innovation into commercially viable product and licensing revenue streams. He’s consistently worked with patent holders, business representatives, legal counsel and executives from both selling and buying organizations to secure deals that offered both attractive revenue and
favorable tax benefits. He has over five years of experience prospecting for, negotiating term sheets and agreements, and closing 14 licensing transactions and 6 divestitures that’s brought more than $15M of previously unrecognized or overlooked revenue. As Director of Technology Licensing at Weyerhaeuser, John drove the company’s strategic bias to license or divest technology in order to decrease the cost of in-house research and development. He’s worked with teams of scientists, engineers, and legal and business leadership to evaluate, determine, and present which technologies to license/divest. In addition, as a representative for Weyerhaeuser on a Joint Development Agreement, John led a team to re-open negotiations on fertilizer technology twice with an industry leader. His efforts achieved the company’s most successful license with royalty fees from the U.S. and 8 other countries. In all of his roles, John has been a resourceful and perseverant professional as well as a resilient licensing and deal-winning key contributor committed to optimizing the return on investment for innovation and technology by making the deal successful for both parties.
