Wayne Yerigan Email Address

Senior Director Consumer Online, Publishing and Architecture

Intellectual Ventures is an invention company ... Invention represents an integral and vital part of the commercial food chain. Invention leads to product design, which in turn leads to product development, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and service. While companies around the world choose to specialize in different parts of the food chain, very few companies do it all and even fewer do it all well. Our personal interests lie in invention. We believe that by focusing on invention, and nothing but invention, we can do it better than the product design and product development companies who are closest to us in the food chain. Product companies are far more worried about their 2-3 year product design and development cycles or transferring products to manufacturing than thinking about the next great invention. And when they do think about inventions, they usually constrain themselves to their relatively narrow focus areas. Our idea of focusing exclusively on invention isn,t new. In the 1800,s the census bureau had a job category of inventor and inventors have brought society some of the many things we depend on - where would we be without the work of Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein. At Intellectual Ventures, we are empowering the next generation of Bells and Einsteins by highlighting the business of invention and providing a means for inventors to be fairly compensated for their work. We conceive and patent our own inventions in-house ... Intellectual Ventures is a source of innovation for the market. Because we are not constrained by near term product cycles and near term product budgets, we have the freedom to work on technology breakthroughs that may be years away from commercialization. This freedom lets us stretch the bounds of technology and make advancements well before product companies would get to them. With the advancements done for them, however, product companies can incorporate our inventions sooner than they would have otherwise. This is a fun, exciting, and intellectually rewarding part of our business. Even though the commercialization of these inventions may be many years out, we view this as a long term market opportunity and strategy.

Experienced business thought leader, technology innovator and software development leader. Proven ability to marry existing and emerging technologies with business vision and passion for the customer to define and lead the implementation of business changing systems. Skilled at building high-performance teams and leading all areas of technology including large scale e-commerce development, cloud based technologies, enterprise architecture planning, worldwide infrastructure management, emerging technologies and patent development. Experienced in technology system security and controls, risk management and business continuity planning. Proven ability to manage all aspects of information technology operations, staffing, budgeting and cost control. Specific focus in the application of leading edge technologies to the solution of complex problems in the enterprise systems and architecture domains. One current projects involves utilization of mobile platforms to leverage the power and ubiquitous access that the cloud provides. More than 20 years of experience in evaluating, designing, and implementing complex systems and their architecture and management infrastructures. Areas of expertise include software development, the application of emerging technologies to business innovation activities, business process management (BPM), enterprise architecture, search system engineering and service management. Particular interest in collaborating with enterprises and organizations in such areas as cloud computing, SOA, Web, distributed systems, and mobile application development. Specialties: Software Development, Business to Technology Strategy Alignment, Technology Leadership and Innovation, Large Scale - Global Web Development, Enterprise Architecture Planning, Cloud Computing