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Chapter Homepage | Chapter Executive Committee Members
Toronto Chapter of the Licensing Executive Society Luncheon Meeting
TIME: VENUE: TITLE: Licensing and financing early stage startups need not be a daunting process. Understanding the needs and concerns of all stakeholders is key towards successfully negotiating an effective license agreement that will ultimately help steer the company in the right direction. Through a panel discussion, some of the key licensing and financial issues pertinent to founders, investors, and company executives will be presented. SPEAKERS: Andrea Feltham is a partner in the Toronto office of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP who practises corporate and commercial law with a particular emphasis on technology and computer law, e-commerce and Internet law and privacy law matters. She advises both vendors and users of technology products and services and assists large and small clients in commercializing, protecting and acquiring intellectual property. Konrad Powell-Jones is President of OpporTx Inc., a technology commercialization company started 8 years ago. He brings a strong scientific foundation and extensive sales and marketing experience in the pharmaceutical industry as well as drawing on experience gained in his more than 14 years in the academic technology commercialization environment in his roles as a commercialization consultant at various Toronto based institutions such as Mount Sinai Hospital; The Innovations Group at University of Toronto; Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Science Centre; the Hospital for Sick Children and the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health. His responsibilities include the selection, patenting, marketing, licensing and starting-up of companies around commercially valuable technologies which result from the research conducted at the University of Toronto and, some of its affiliated teaching hospitals, centres of excellence, other universities and corporations.COST: RSVP: CONTACT: Any other questions may be directed to Paul Jones, Jones & Co.,(pjones@jonesco-law.ca – 416-703-5716) or Arlene Yee, The Hospital for Sick Children (arlene.yee@sickkids.ca) – 416-813-8858.
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