Leslie Field

Leslie Field, Ph.D. is the Founder and Managing Member of SmallTech Consulting, and an experienced inventor and entrepreneur with extensive consulting experience including technical and IP due diligence work in MEMS.

Past projects include MEMS implantable medical systems process design, mask layout, and prototyping; microfluidics and advanced packaging design; optical device design, layout and prototyping; advanced displays; MEMS and BioMEMS business strategies; simulation; due diligence for VCs; market and technology evaluations; focused inventions; and extensive patent evaluations, including expert witness background work.

Dr. Field is also a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and has just completed 9 years as a Consulting Professor at Stanford, affiliated with Professor Roger Howe's MEMS/NEMS research group. Dr. Field worked in MEMS R&D at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories/Agilent Laboratories and during her decade there played a key role in starting HP Labs' Micromechanics group, while also working on a variety of MEMS projects and devices. Her earlier work at Chevron Research Company resulted in improved commercial catalytic refining methods for high-octane blend-stocks and aromatics production. Her work at both HP and Chevron resulted in billions of dollars of revenue for each company.

Leslie earned PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley's Sensor& Actuator Center, and MS and BS degrees in Chemical Engineering from MIT. She has 53 issued US patents, 8 pending patent applications, 25 technical publications, and has consulted for more than 50 companies.