Intellectual Ventures - Our Inventors

Intellectual Ventures' Goal is to
assemble a world-class team to
invent and invest in inventions.
Our team is a very unique mix of
scientists, technologists,
business leaders, strategists,
engineers, mathematicians,
programmers, attorneys, IP
experts and support staff.

If you are interested in working
for Intellectual Ventures,
please see our
careers site for current openings.

Edward Jung Founder, President
Edward Jung is a founder and President of Intellectual Ventures. Mr. Jung co-founded Intellectual Ventures after leaving Microsoft Corporation where he was chief architect and advisor to executive staff.

Nathan Myhrvold Founder, CEO
Nathan Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures after retiring from his position as chief strategist and chief technology officer of Microsoft Corporation.

Casey Tegreene VP and Chief Patent Counsel
Casey Tegreene is Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel at Intellectual Ventures where he focuses on a variety of projects relating to invention and innovation.

Ken Caldeira Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Global Ecology
Ken Caldeira is a Staff Scientist at the Carnegie Institution, wherein his only job responsibility is “to make important scientific discoveries.”

Alexander Cohen Senior Analyst
Alexander J. Cohen is a senior analyst at Quantum Intellectual Property Services, where he focuses on software patent analysis and portfolio analysis and management for clients.

Bran Ferren Co-Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc.
Mr. Ferren is a designer and technologist working in entertainment, product development, engineering, architecture and the sciences.

John S. Foster, Jr. Chairman of the Board of GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems
Dr. John S. Foster, Jr. is Chairman of the Board of GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems, member of the board of Wackenhut Services, Inc., and consultant to Northrop Grumman Corp., Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Titan Corp., Ninesigma, Technology Strategies & All

W. Daniel Hillis Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Applied Minds, Inc.
Danny Hillis is co-chairman and chief technology officer of Applied Minds, Inc.

Leroy Hood Co-Founder and Director, Institute for Systems Biology
Dr. Leroy Hood is recognized as one of the world’s leading scientists in molecular biotechnology and genomics and was a major contributor to the Human Genome Project.

Roderick Hyde Senior Scientist and Inventor
Dr. Hyde recently joined Intellectual Ventures as a senior scientist and inventor. Previously he spent 32 years as a senior physicist at University of California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Muriel Y. Ishikawa Senior Scientist and Inventor
During her 18 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Dr. Ishikawa was a project and program leader of new-concept technical innovative projects.

Alois A. Langer Senior Inventor
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Alois A. Langer graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967 with a degree in electrical engineering and later from Carnegie Mellon University with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering/biotechnology.

Robert Langer Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert S. Langer is one of 14 Institute Professors (the highest honor awarded to a faculty member) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

John Latham Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester, UK
John Latham’s principal current research interests are in the fields of cloud physics, atmospheric electricity and global climate.

Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D. Neurosurgeon, Washington University in St. Louis
Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D. is a neurosurgeon who is currently an assistant professor with the Department of Neurological Surgery at Barnes Jewish Hospital and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St Louis.

Roy Levien Managing Inventor, Ambient Architecture
Roy Levien is Principal and Manager of Keystone Advantage, LLC, and a Managing Inventor at Ambient Architecture, an invention company.

Mark Malamud Principal and Manager, busymonster, LLC
Mark Malamud is the principal and manager of busymonster, LLC, a consultancy company focused on advanced user interface and design.

Bill Mangione-Smith Senior Engineer and Inventor
William Henry Mangione-Smith has been a professional engineer for over 15 years.

Sir John Pendry Professor, Imperial College London
Professor Sir John Pendry FRS has been professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics at Imperial College London since 1981.

John D. Rinaldo, Jr User Interface Architect
John Rinaldo has participated in several Intellectual Ventures’ invention sessions relating to user interface.

David Ruzic Director of the Center for Plasma Material Interactions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. David N. Ruzic is the Director of the Center for Plasma Material Interactions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

David R. Smith Augustine Scholar and Professor, Duke University
Dr. David Smith earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at San Diego, and then worked as a postdoc researcher on plasmon resonant particles as optical labels for biological and biochemical assays.

Willard H. (Bill) Wattenburg Research scientist at the Research Foundation, California State University, Chico; scientific consultant to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Willard H. (Bill) Wattenburg is presently a research scientist at the Research Foundation, California State University, Chico, and a scientific consultant to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he conducts most of his experimental work.

Thomas Weaver Senior Interviewer, Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
Dr. Thomas Weaver is senior interviewer for the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

Chuck Whitmer Software Architect
Chuck Whitmer was co-founder of Dynamical Systems Research, Inc. with Dr. Nathan Myhrvold.

Richard N. Zare Blake Wilbur Professor, Stanford University
Richard N. Zare is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science at Stanford University. He was born on November 19, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a graduate of Harvard University, where he received his B.A. degree in chemistry and physics.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay