Ray Strimaitis

Ray Strimaitis has over twenty-five years of experience as an intellectual property professional. Previously, Ray served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Yahoo where he led a global team of IP professionals and was responsible for setting patent strategy, monetizing the Yahoo patent portfolio, mitigating patent risk, guiding patent advocacy and overseeing all trademark/copyright matters. Ray established and led a program to monetize Yahoo patents that generated $600 million in patent sales and license transactions. He led the formation of Excalibur IP, LLC – a wholly owned Yahoo subsidiary that was created to further optimize patent value to Yahoo shareholders. Before joining Yahoo Ray served in various legal, management and patent roles at IBM. Mr. Strimaitis received his J.D. from Cleveland Marshall College of Law and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cleveland State University.