Aly Z. Dossa is a patent attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a partner with Osha Liang, L.L.P., in Houston, Texas. Mr. Dossa’s practice focuses on U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, licensing, drafting and review of agreements, drafting opinions, and other intellectual property work, with an emphasis on technology areas such as business methods, computer software, and networking. He has helped clients of all sizes to establish and grow patent portfolios and formulate company-wide IP strategies. Mr. Dossa graduated from the University of Houston Law Center (J.D.) and Queen’s University, Canada (B.S. Computer Science, with distinction,…
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Gray Hancock is the Head of Trade and Investment for UK Trade and Investment in Houston, Texas. UKTI is the commercial arm of the British Government and as such works to promote bilateral trade between the UK and the USA. Gray oversees six teams responsible for the Southwestern US specializing in the Life Science, IT, Energy, Financial/Professional Services, Food, and Retail industries. UKTI works directly with US companies to provide international operations consulting and aid them in establishing a presence in the UK market. UKTI also provides market intelligence services to UK companies looking to enter the U.S. marketplace. Previously,…
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Ricky Holloman is an experienced business executive specializing in the areas of strategy development, marketing, business development, and technology capabilities. By leveraging these skills in the fields of technology, energy and industrial applications, Holloman has pursued a distinguished three-decade career and performed critical leadership positions for companies such as Expro Group, PowerWell Services and Halliburton Energy Services. Most recently, Holloman acted as Vice President Strategic Marketing for Well Testing at Expro Group, the largest global company in the surface well testing services industry. This company offered well surveillance products and services as well as convenient clamp-on products to measure well…
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Dr. Kraft is a Lecturer in Management in the Graduate School of Business Administration at Rice University. He also is part of Rice Alliance and serves as Director of Technology Ventures Development. He teaches technology entrepreneurship and focuses on direction and coaching startup technology companies. He was formerly the Director of Client Services for the Houston Technology Center. He is a native Californian, having graduated from UCLA with a mechanical engineering degree and an MBA from the Anderson School. After teaching at UCLA and conducting research in biophysics, Dr. Kraft completed a master’s degree in mathematical statistics from Stanford University….
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Roberto is currently an angel investor and board member at Voxofon, an emerging company in the mobile telecommunications market; Ingressio, an identity verification and biometrics solutions provider; Marketing 911, a marketing services agency focused on CRM solutions; and a leads a software development startup focused on gamification and mobile applications (still in stealth mode). As part of the Houston Angel Network, he is continuously looking to invest and get involved in exciting technology startups that are changing the world. His current investments include Surge Accelerator, the leading accelerator for software startups focused on the Energy sector. He also provides free…
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Dr. Molad is a global business executive and lecturer with more than 20 years’ experience in leading mission critical change efforts. She has a proven track record in successfully initiating industry-wide global change. She is also a distinguished recipient of numerous awards and commendations and sought after international speaker and trainer. Dr. Molad started her career as a pioneer in the field of e-Learning in 1980. She worked for Control Data Corporation developing the first computer-based-training curriculum for training geophysicists for a consortium of the world’s largest seven petroleum companies. From there she led a start-up company that was the…
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