Workshop Leader Bio: David C. Schwartz, Founder & eVP Program Execution PE LLC
Prior to forming PE LLC, David Schwartz founded Productive Environments in 1989. There, he was responsible for establishing the BinderBuddies portfolio of 27 patents. As head of product development, distribution, and licensing he secured 20 license agreements, generating over $40 million dollars of royalty bearing sales on a series of innovative new organizing products based on the patent portfolio.
He authored the book: Growing Smarter-a crash course on the intelligence of being organized, and developed the Organizing Engineers Preparatory Curriculum for vocational and college freshmen students and teachers. His interest is in the development of improved engineering education programs and in the formation of IP centric companies capable of developing robust patent portfolios that can be commercially licensed through strategic partnerships.
Mr. Schwartzs IP work spans a period of 20 years. He is best known for his work developing and marketing consumer products in hard goods, software, and gaming. In this pursuit he invented, prototyped, prepared and filed world wide patent applications. He was able to secure over 250 issued and non-infringed claims. He has patented mechanical, electro-mechanical, and complex software systems. His field of invention includes applications in consumer learning products, infectious disease control software, collaborative enterprise platforms, innovative mobile robotic apparatus, and reading tutors for instructional learning. Based on this work, he developed --IP BOOTCAMP-Lessons in how to start an IP Centric Company-- a workshop designed specifically for inventive founders of technology based companies which is offered to both companys and schools around the country.
Mr. Schwartz spent 16 years in the computer industry as a software engineer and in divisional management for several high tech companies. He worked as product manager for Symbolics where he was responsible for rolling out the first commercially available AI machines and for 5 years as a division manager of AI at Texas Instruments. He worked as a director for enterprise systems at Distribution Management where he was product manager for complex distribution and supply chain software. As VP Intellectual Property at VECNA, he patented software and hardware systems for infectious disease control, collaborative task based project management and personal health care robots. Mr. Schwartz began his career as a systems engineer at Data General where he held various technical/management positions and as a systems programmer at Softech where he worked on large scale software projects developing the first generation of spread sheet programs for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the first on-line word processing program for Time Life Magazine, and the first -Basic- language interpreter and compiler for Olivettis series of IBM compatible PCs.
He has a BSEE from Cornell University where he was the McMillan Scholar, an MSEE in Computer Science from MIT where he taught introductory EE and Compiler Design. He received his MBA in Information Systems from BU’s School of Management.