E. Andre Carter is the founder and President of IRIMI, Inc., a strategic consulting firm dedicated to helping small companies leverage their intellectual assets, human capital and organizational culture to chart, develop and implement strategic and business planning. He worked as a Marketing Manager for IBM for five years and participated IP-focused technology startups. Prior to that, Carter was Director of Channels at Puma Technology, responsible for spearheading the launch of the Intellisync brand and product line the first third-party product for handheld devices to gain mass distribution and which became the most successful handheld software on the market at the time.

Raymond Millien received his B.S. from Columbia University in 1992 and his J.D. from the George Washington University Law School in 1997. He is presently an attorney for the national law firm Piper Rudnick LLP, where he focuses his practice on all aspects of intellectual property law. Throughout his legal career, Millien has counseled small technology startups and assisted them with their internal IP policies and procedures, as well as in the procurement of IP rights. Prior to attending law school, he was a software design engineer with General Electric and a graduate of their Edison Engineering Program."