Ky Good co-founded C4CUBE in 2006 with a vision to establish an Incubator in Northern Nevada to help bridge the “gap” between entrepreneurs and industry and contribute to bringing start-up companies into the region.
Norman Smith has 30 years executive management experience specializing in startups and cutting edge innovations in retail, technology, manufacturing, and international business development. He founded 9 successful startups and raised over $250 million in startup funding taking their annual revenue from startup to over $100 million. His ability to assist young startups comes from his personal experience that includes: building world class management delivering world class services and products. He took a failing U.S. manufacturing firm from $1/2 million in sales to $120 million while winning state awards for handling of hazardous materials and waste water treatment. He started and managed international joint ventures in Hong Kong, Thailand and China, with an average annual growth of 1500%.
He took manufacturing technology services and consumer product retailing from 43 locations to 216 locations with no change in cash flow tripled revenues and increased profits by 11%. He is nationally recognized for innovative programs and job growth while serving on the board of the Contra Costa Software Business Incubator Board, as a University Regent for several Non Profit(s), and as a board member for Regional governance and Private industry. When not starting a new company his leisure time passions include travel scuba diving and animal rescue.
Soody Tronson has been involved in technology and law for over 20 years. She has represented technology, life science, medical device, sustainable energy, and pharmaceutical companies in a wide range of intellectual property matters. Soody’s clients have included individuals, newly formed and venture-backed startups, and publicly traded multinational corporations.
Soody consults with several companies. She is on the advisory board of several organizations including, the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) where she also serves on the Program Committee, and the Association for the Sports and Athlete Professionals. She instructs courses in IP and licensing at the University of California. She serves as a mentor at the Stanford Technology Venture Formation and the Technology Entrepreneurship Programs, is an advisor with Astia, and volunteers her services at local non-profit organizations. She is also an inventor on patent applications and issued patents.
Based on the breadth of her experience and the founding of two companies, she is well accustomed to challenges facing emerging as well as mature companies enabling her to counsel clients in a wide range of technologies.
Soody is the founder of STLG Intellectual Property Law where she counsels a wide range of clients on intellectual property and transactional matters, including patent procurement, licensing, and strategic portfolio positioning.
Prior to the start of STLG, she practiced law as IP Counsel at the Silicon Valley offices of Heller Ehrman, and Townsend and Townsend, and in-house at the Hewlett-Packard Company. Soody was General Counsel and Vice President of Intellectual Property at a successfully acquired medical device start up company where she was responsible for all legal matters including IP, clinical trials, corporate transactions, licensing and partnering transactions, employment issues, and IP litigation.
Before starting her legal career, she spent several years in the industry holding technical and management positions at companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Schering-Plough.
Soody holds a J.D. and M.S.; and is licensed to practice before the State of California and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.”
Lawrence Udell is Executive Director of both the Center For New Venture Alliance and the California Invention Center. He has created and taught “New Ventures and Entrepreneurship” courses for over 30 years, plus a special course on, “Technology Marketing” at the Cal-State Hayward, School of Business and Economics.
He served as a Lecturing Professor at U.C. Berkeley, teaching a course on Technology Transfer & Commercialization, and has also taught other courses
for other universities in the U. S. and Canada. He is an active member of the Licensing Executives Society, and is co-founder and managing director of the Silicon Valley Chapter of LES.
Founder of over 20 corporations, he also provides consulting to both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, plus lectures frequently at inventor, corporate and government functions throughout America and in other countries for the World Intellectual Property Organization (United Nations).
