June Experts Corner

Check out the great experts we have lined up for the Experts Corner this month!  (Plus, we are hoping to see lots of the mentors from the IBM SmartCamp sticking around!)  These experts (and many others) attend Mass Innovation Nights and are available to answer your questions and help you!

Miguel Danielson and Randall Morin are intellectual property attorneys with the Cambridge law firm of Danielson Legal LLC.  Miguel has worked with hundreds of companies over the last nine years on all aspects of intellectual property law with a focus on technology licensing, trademark, copyright, and Internet law.  While he concentrates on the software and high technology sectors, he has also worked with innovators in many different industries such as publishing, consumer goods, and professional services. Randy’s experience includes the management and prosecution of hundreds of patent applications in the U.S. and over a dozen international jurisdictions. He has significant experience in patent drafting and prosecution, searching and clearance, and appeal proceedings.  Randall’s clients  have had business interests in a wide variety of fields including life sciences, medical devices, nanotechnology, software, and mechanical devices.

Kai Rostcheck – Free Marketing Made Easy — A serial entrepreneur with deep roots in business development, Kai has more than 15 years of experience in Sales and Marketing. He has learned the retail, technology, media and wellness industries, worked in direct sales at national and local levels, built reseller and distributor relationships and brought several new product categories to market. An avid online and offline small business networker, he recently developed *Free Marketing Made Easy*, an Internet Marketing program for traditional businesses owners and early stage entrepreneurs who need to get online, don’t have a lot to spend and aren’t sure where to start.

Bill Scher is back with us!  Bill is with Adventus/Sandler, a global sales training and professional development consulting firm.  He has spent over 25 years in sales and sales management. Bill’s areas of expertise are training around helping emerging companies with new business development; shortening sales cycles, relationship building and defining sales process.  Bill told us about his one day course “Presenting Yourself with Impact” currently scheduled for July 22.  Learn how to:  Organize presentations that meet audience needs; Control anxiety while public speaking; Harness the power of non-verbal communication; Control nervous habits like “aahs & uhms”;  Increase your “personal presence; Manage your audience.

Stacie Andrews will be on hand as well.  Stacie is our partner to the North — Provado Marketing Solutions. She provides multi-channel development for high-growth companies and is organizing an Innovation Nights event in Maine!