Paul HENDERSON

Current

Managing Director at Clarify LLC

Past

Director of Intellectual Property Acquisition at Hewlett Packard Co.
Intellectual Property Licensing Manager at Hewlett Packard Co.
Principal Managing Consultant at Hewlett Packard Co.

Technology Roadmap Program Mgr. at Hewlett Packard Co

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Education

Columbia University - Columbia Business School
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
University of Washington

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Management Consulting

Paul HENDERSON’s Summary

Paul Henderson is Managing Director of Clarify LLC, a business advisory firm specializing in intellectual property strategy for both early stage and established companies. Prior to this, Paul was Director of Hewlett Packard’s IP acquisition program, managing an eight-figure budget for buying patent portfolios for all of the company’s businesses. Before this, Paul launched an intellectual property licensing program in HP’s Global Engineering Services group. Paul was also manager of HP’s Product Generation Consulting Group, providing internal advisory and consulting services to senior leaders of HP businesses to create and operationalize strategies in the areas of product generation and processes, product family architecture, new business creation, business model innovation and competitive positioning.

Recent and upcoming speaking engagements:

5/27 - Nat'l Academies of Science: Patents, Patent Markets & Technology Forecasting

7/30 - Licensing Executives Society Silicon Valley: Making Patent Acquisition More Efficient - A View From Both The Buyer's and Seller's Side of the Deal

11/3 - Gathering 2.0 IP Executive Forum: Patent Market Outlook for 2009 - Supply, Demand and Pricing

11/19 - UC Berkeley MBA Lecture: Global Sourcing - Frameworks for Decision Making

2/3 - Santa Clara U. MBA Lecture: Outsourcing Design

Member of the advisory board for IP strategy at VirnetX, Gathering2.0, Mo-DV

Paul HENDERSON’s Specialties:

Intellectual property strategy, patent markets, IP acquisition, valuation methodologies, management consulting, product development processes, portfolio management, metrics & measurement systems, balanced scorecard, competitive intelligence, new business creation, intraventures, project & program management, development lifecycles, lean development, professional services management, organizational transformation, alignment, vision, group dynamics, governance models, business models

Paul HENDERSON’s Experience

Managing Director

Clarify LLC

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Clarify LLC is a business advisory firm specializing in the strategic use of intellectual property for both early stage and established companies. Clients include both Fortune 100 corporations that want to get more out of their existing portfolios through licensing, sale or strategic leverage and pre-IPO companies that want to improve their valuation through establishing a durable competitive advantage.
Director of Intellectual Property Acquisition

Hewlett Packard Co.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2006 — May 2007 (9 months)

Responsible for driving and executing strategies and initiatives to acquire and/or license intellectual property to enable freedom of action for HP product businesses and other strategic considerations.

• Worked across HP (e.g. HP Legal, Global Business Units, HP Labs, and Strategy & Corporate Development) and with third parties to find and evaluate IP acquisition opportunities.
• Managed HP’s IP acquisition program and processes, from evaluating opportunities to influencing management decision-making to completing transactions.

• Center for expertise on IP valuation for acquisition and other licensing transactions

In the Intellectual Property Licensing Group in the Office of Strategy and Technology.
Intellectual Property Licensing Manager

Hewlett Packard Co.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)

November 2005 — September 2006 (11 months)

HP Global Engineering Services
Principal Managing Consultant

Hewlett Packard Co.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1999 — November 2005 (6 years 6 months)

Paul and the PGC team provided advisory and consulting services to HP businesses that needed quick but comprehensive strategy development tied to measurable execution plans. His client base spans producers and consumers of commercial and consumer hardware, software and services, and business infrastructure. Areas of expertise include: product generation and processes, product family architecture, new business creation, business model innovation, competitive positioning and intellectual property. Paul and the team worked with clients in two ways – either as an advisor to the executive team or general manager, or as leader of an integrated consulting project team consisting of both PGC and client resources.
Technology Roadmap Program Mgr.

Hewlett Packard Co

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1998 (3 years)

Led a team commissioned by HP’s senior executives to forecast the manufacturing technology needs of 150 divisions in order to identify critical areas of investment for the company.

Additional Information

Paul HENDERSON’s Interests:

Critical thinking, neurolinguistic programming, transactional analysis, OODA, markets, organizational constellations, group dynamics, precision questioning, social networks, books, contemporary Indian literature, wine, fluent in French, upper-intermediate level Italian, intermediate level Spanish