Wil Jacques, MBA, Connects and Advises Start-Ups Needing Technical Acumen, Marketing Expertise
The Pearson Strategy Group is pleased to announce that patent valuation and licensing expert Wil Jacques, MBA, is now available as a partner and resource for PSG clients.
“Wil has been a terrific friend and colleague to me in the past and now I’m excited that he’s agreed to bring his skills for patent commercialization to PSG,” said founder Steve Pearson.
“Clients who seek financial gain from their intellectual property will benefit from his expertise and resources.”
Early-stage companies turn to Jacques for help attracting capital investments and out-licensing opportunities with more established market players including government, venture capital firms, and medium to large-size corporations.
With more than 25 years of experience in engineering, manufacturing, sales, strategic marketing, and technology licensing, Jacques combines the big-picture perspective, technical know-how and business sense that young companies need to prosper.
As an agent of the patent and technology owner, Jacques provides patented technology valuation, market due diligence, business opportunity identification, and licensing negotiations with third parties. He is equally at home with government, industrial, or private sector organizations and clients.
Jacques’ specialties include strategic marketing development, personnel and project management, invention disclosure management, patent and technology analysis, and technology commercialization planning and implementation.
Jacques also consults with universities and intellectual property marketing firms on strategies for monetizing their patent assets. Representative transactions include the licensing of biotechnology and organic solar cell technologies for Florida A&M University, electrical transformer technology for University of Hartford, and wireless audio and electronic display technologies for Competitive Technologies.
In addition, he has completed more than twenty-five patent valuation and market research studies for clients including Science & Technology, LLC, Competitive Technologies, and TAEUS International.
Jacques’ educational background includes MBA, American University; Masters (Candidate) Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and BS, Howard University.
Jacques retains relationships with clients as consultant and board member in the environmental, manufacturing, and market research arena. He is civic minded, contributing to numerous local and national organizations. An avid golfer, he is co-founder of the Skins & Pins golf affinity and charity group in Connecticut.
Please welcome Jacques to the Pearson Strategy Group.
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