Annya Dushine
IP Solutions Consultant
CPA Global
Annya Dushine has more than 20 years of expertise providing law firms and corporate legal departments with strategic and practical consulting services in all aspects of IP portfolio and operations management. Annya’s expertise includes helping clients to improve efficiency, reduce risk, maximize resources and increase profitability. Annya has established and managed IP departments at several corporations and law firms, developing optimal organizational models, developing and administering IP business processes, implementing IP asset management systems, and establishing the necessary controls to ensure compliance to US and International IP Law.
Brad Blickstein
Principal
Blickstein Group
Brad Blickstein, principal at the Blickstein Group, has spent his entire career bridging the gap between in-house counsel, law firms and legal service providers. In 1991, he was on the small team that launched Corporate Legal Times (now Inside Counsel), which covered the relationship between client and counsel, but from the client’s perspective. For most of its readers, CLT was the first information source of any kind specifically for in-house counsel. Brad led a management buyout of the company in 1998 and launched the CLT SuperConference selling the company in 2002 and launching Blickstein Group.
Amy Gagich
IP Manager
Koch Companies
Amy Gagich is the IP Manager at Koch Companies Public Sector, which is the Legal, Government, and Public Affairs division for Koch Industries, Inc. based in Wichita Kansas. Amy’s responsibilities include hands-on management of all docketing and software conversions, IP software administration, Patent and Trademark prosecution, budget planning, change management, as well as continuing to define ways to promote technology and efficiency across all KOCH IP functions. Prior to joining Koch, Amy worked for a large vacuum cleaner manufacture and several large law firms based in theCleveland, Ohio area.