Description
Join us for an interactive session using
anchored scale ratings to show you where your group stands with respect to
others. Bill Weber and John Bacon, iP2Biz, offer practical tips to deal with
issues gleaned from thousands of cases.
Contributors
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John Bacon, CEO, iP2Biz
John Bacon is a lifelong practitioner of Front End Innovation, a discipline that led directly to the creation of iP2Biz LLC where he is founder and CEO. John has spent his entire career working with early stage technology, creating markets for breakthrough technologies. He was an executive for 17 years with Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. (now Cisco), in a variety of roles including serving as managing director of the company’s United Kingdom operation and Group Executive of Satellite Communications in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. He was a software entrepreneur for more than 15 years, running several venture capital-backed companies and—after raising close to $40 million from seven venture capital firms—taking two of them public. John has also been the CEO of a company spun-out from a major research university to monetize a dense cluster of image-processing patents and successfully created a roadmap which led the company from university research into commercial markets. These diverse technology leadership experiences combined with a period of venture investing have given John a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing corporate innovation, an understanding which led to the founding of iP2Biz.
John is on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Tech Foundation, and chairman of the board of the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He has served on the Boards of many other technology, arts and community organizations.
John has traveled from South Korea to Denmark to help companies and governments commercialize research and has contributed to recommend actions at the request of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is also a faculty member of the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program which connects small university spinouts with corporations. He holds a degree in engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and has completed advanced management development work at Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business.
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Bill Weber, EVP and GM, iP2Biz
Bill Weber is the EVP/GM of iP2Biz. He joined the company in 2014 after spending fourteen years in various executive positions with fast-growing technology companies.
Prior to joining iP2Biz, Bill spent eight years as general counsel for Cbeyond, Inc., a public technology company headquartered in Atlanta which was taken private in 2014. Before Cbeyond, Bill spent four years at Covad Communications in a variety of roles including regional vice president and vice president, regulatory affairs & operations. When he left Covad in 2006, Bill was responsible for leading the regional teams controlling all of the company’s regulatory and legislative affairs in 35 states.
Mr. Weber grew up in Decatur, Georgia. He attended the United States Naval Academy where he received a B.S. in 1987, graduating with honors and accepting a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. As a Marine tank platoon commander stationed in Camp Pendleton, California, Mr. Weber completed deployments to Okinawa, Japan and to Korea. Later, during Operations Desert Shield and Storm, he served as a platoon commander in the 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion. Following the conclusion of hostilities, Mr. Weber was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V” for his actions in the Al Burquan oil fields on February 25, 1991. Five other Marines under his command were also awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
The Marine Corps sent Mr. Weber to law school at the University of Georgia where he graduated cum laude in 1996. He practiced law for the Marine Corps at Parris Island, South Carolina, but acted as military defense counsel in numerous courts martial in other parts of the country.
After leaving the Marine Corps as a major in 1999, Mr. Weber taught trial and appellate advocacy at the law school at the University of Georgia before moving to a commercial litigation practice at a large Atlanta law firm in 2000 and then in-house in 2002.