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San Francisco Bay Area
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- Chief Technology Officer at RPX Corporation
- Partner at Project One
- Board member at iLeonardo
- Managing Director at Pebble Partners LLC
- Advisor at Tideway Systems
- Past
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- Advisor at Peanut Labs / Xuqa
- Advisor at Miravida / Jumpcut
- EIR at Foundation Capital
- Director, Honeycomb Storage Product at Sun Microsystems
- VP Engineering at Infrasearch
- VP Security at alladvantage.com
- CEO at Ultimode
- Engineer at Lexicus, Motorola
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Steve Waterhouse’s Summary
Prior to joining RPX, Steve Waterhouse was a founding partner in the boutique IP firm Pebble Partners which provides expert valuation and brokerage services to owners of Intellectual Property. Prior to founding Pebble Partners, Dr. Waterhouse was an Entrepeneur in Residence at Foundation Capital, where he focused on investments in consumer Internet and search including the investment in Powerset which was recently acquired by Microsoft. Prior to Foundation, Dr. Waterhouse was a Director at Sun Microsystems responsible for the Honeycomb storage product line which he managed from his initial invention to product release. He was also Director of Engineering for the JXTA project at Sun Microsystems following Sun's acquisition of Infrasearch where he was VP of Engineering. Dr. Waterhouse holds a Ph.D., M.Phil. and M.A. from Cambridge University where he received the Isaac Newton prize for outstanding Ph.D. research. He specialized in speech recognition and data analytics during his Ph.D. He has published over 30 international research papers and is an author on 30 pending patents in speech, distributed systems, search and storage technology.
Steve Waterhouse’s Specialties:
starting companies, managing product teams, intellectual property valuations, buying and selling intellectual property / patents, expert witness
Steve Waterhouse’s Experience
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Chief Technology Officer
RPX Corporation
(Legal Services industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
RPX Corporation is a patent acquisition services company for technology and e-commerce company’s Intellectual Property and Litigation Counsels and CFOs who want to reduce their patent assertion and litigation costs and risks. Funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Charles Rivers Ventures, the company has acquired over $30 million in patent rights to date and is on track to acquire $100 million in its first year
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Partner
Project One
(Hospitality industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
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Board member
iLeonardo
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Leo Search, a Berkeley-based start-up developing a collective intelligence search engine, is in the process of raising new capital to expand its product development and marketing efforts. Leo Search is building a consumer search engine based on collective intelligence to produce better search result ranking. Tapping into people's knowledge, searchers use their intelligence to interact with a search engine that in turn lets other searchers benefit from that intelligence - its power makes finding what you want remarkably faster and easier.
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Managing Director
Pebble Partners LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Pebble Partners provides strategic advice on Intellectual Property
transactions. Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, venture
backed startups and Intellectual Property funds. We represent
buyers and sellers during IP asset transactions, performing
vital valuation and analysis services. -
Advisor
Tideway Systems
(Internet industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
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Advisor
Peanut Labs / Xuqa
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
November 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Advisor to Peanut Labs ex. Xuqa.
About Peanut Labs
Peanut Labs is a rapidly growing online Gen-Y market research network that brings users on social communities to market researchers. Using surveys, behavioral analysis and tracking studies, researchers can study consumer's habits and spending on 52 profiled attributes. With major online partners such as LiveJournal, OKCupid, Xuqa, Fotki and others, Peanut Labs can reach more than 10 million online users for research. Researchers such as AOL/DMS, Greenfield, GMI, OTX and C&R Research have booked research orders through 2007. Only 3 months into service, the company has doubled revenues every month, with revenues expected to grow sharply in the next few quarters.
The company has 6 employees, and is based in San Francisco, CA. -
Advisor
Miravida / Jumpcut
(Internet industry)
February 2006 — October 2006 (9 months)
Technical and business advisor to Jumpcut until acquisition by Yahoo. Assisted
founders with due diligence meetings and provided advice on IP, technical
architecture and business strategy. -
EIR
Foundation Capital
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2005 — March 2006 (7 months)
Steve is currently working as Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundation Capital in Menlo Park, California. His responsibilities include finding and introducing early stage
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Director, Honeycomb Storage Product
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)
January 2001 — January 2005 (4 years 1 month)
Founded and built a new product group at Sun Microsystems which develops
high density, cost effective storage systems for media, healthcare and financial markets. -
VP Engineering
Infrasearch
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
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VP Security
alladvantage.com
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
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CEO
Ultimode
(Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
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Engineer
Lexicus, Motorola
(Computer Software industry)
June 1995 — November 1995 (6 months)
Additional Information
Steve Waterhouse’s Websites:
Steve Waterhouse’s Honors:
Isaac Newton award for oustanding PhD research, Cambridge University, 1996
US patents:
7,299,325
7,296,180
7,171,415
7,158,986
7,194,434
7,013,303
7,099,871
6,961,723
6,653,091
6,326,160
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