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Law">Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law</a>, JD 1982<br />Theseus Institute – International Management Institute, MBA 1995</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Employer</th><td class="infobox-data org"><a href="/wiki/Open_Invention_Network" title="Open Invention Network">Open Invention Network</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Title</th><td class="infobox-data title"><a href="/wiki/CEO" class="mw-redirect" title="CEO">CEO</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_management.php">Management</a> at openinventionnetwork.com</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Keith Daniel Bergelt</b> (born September 11, 1958) is an American corporate executive and former U.S. diplomat. He is CEO of <a href="/wiki/Open_Invention_Network" title="Open Invention Network">Open Invention Network</a> where he is responsible for coordinating the establishment and maintenance of a patent ‘‘no-fly” zone around <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>. As such, he is responsible for safeguarding an open and competitive landscape in key technology markets such as back-office transaction processing, mission critical IT applications, mobile communications/smartphones, and desktop computing. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Keith_Bergelt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bergelt was born in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and was raised in the village of <a href="/wiki/Bayville,_New_York" title="Bayville, New York">Bayville, New York</a> on the North Shore of <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a>. He attended St. Boniface Martyr School in <a href="/wiki/Sea_Cliff,_New_York" title="Sea Cliff, New York">Sea Cliff, New York</a> and is a graduate of <a href="/wiki/Locust_Valley_High_School" title="Locust Valley High School">Locust Valley High School</a>. He was a high school classmate of <a href="/wiki/Eileen_Chamberlain_Donahoe" class="mw-redirect" title="Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe">Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe</a>, U.S. Ambassador to the <a href="/wiki/UN_Human_Rights_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Human Rights Council">UN Human Rights Council</a> in <a href="/wiki/Geneva,_Switzerland" class="mw-redirect" title="Geneva, Switzerland">Geneva, Switzerland</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Keith_Bergelt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bergelt holds degrees from <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a>’s <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="Trinity College of Arts and Sciences">Trinity College</a> (AB), the <a href="/wiki/Dedman_School_of_Law" title="Dedman School of Law">Dedman School of Law</a> at <a href="/wiki/Southern_Methodist_University" title="Southern Methodist University">Southern Methodist University</a> (JD), and <a href="/wiki/EDHEC" class="mw-redirect" title="EDHEC">Edhec Business School</a> (Theseus MBA). In addition, he has studied management at <a href="/wiki/INSEAD" title="INSEAD">INSEAD</a> and <a href="/wiki/Institut_National_des_Telecommunications" class="mw-redirect" title="Institut National des Telecommunications">Institut National des Telecommunications</a> (INT) in <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and economics and technology policy at <a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Francisco" title="University of San Francisco">University of San Francisco</a>'s McLaren Graduate School of Business. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1982-2000">1982-2000</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Keith_Bergelt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1982-2000"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Upon graduation from law school, he entered public service and held diplomatic postings at the UN in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and the American Embassy in <a href="/wiki/Tokyo,_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tokyo, Japan">Tokyo, Japan</a>. During his 12-year public service career he also lived in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California">San Francisco, California</a> and <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> He was a colleague and <a href="/wiki/Tennis" title="Tennis">tennis</a> partner of <a href="/wiki/U.S._Treasury_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Treasury Secretary">U.S. Treasury Secretary</a> <a href="/wiki/Tim_Geithner" class="mw-redirect" title="Tim Geithner">Tim Geithner</a> during their time together at the American Embassy in <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a> in the early 1990s. </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall">Berlin Wall</a> fell in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bergelt left government service and embarked on a private sector career in C-level strategy consulting focused on innovation at SRI Consulting in <a href="/wiki/Menlo_Park,_CA" class="mw-redirect" title="Menlo Park, CA">Menlo Park, CA</a>. While at SRI Consulting, he co-founded the first strategy consulting practice in the area of intellectual asset management at a major strategy consulting firm.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This practice enabled companies to develop strategies to more effectively build, manage and leverage the value of their codified (patents, trademarks, copyrights) and non-codified (knowledge, know-how, etc.) intellectual capital through licensing, joint ventures, donation, abandonment and the creation of spin-outs, spin-ups and spin-ins uniquely suited to monetize corporate intangible assets.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2000-present">2000-present</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Keith_Bergelt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2000-present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bergelt was then brought into <a href="/wiki/Motorola" title="Motorola">Motorola</a> Corporation in <a href="/wiki/Schaumburg,_IL" class="mw-redirect" title="Schaumburg, IL">Schaumburg, IL</a> to establish and serve as General Manager of its Strategic Intellectual Asset Management business unit focused on distilling value from Motorola’s intellectual property. In addition, he served as Director of Technology Strategy during his tenure at Motorola. </p><p>Following his experience at Motorola and coincident with the departure of <a href="/wiki/Bob_Galvin" title="Bob Galvin">Bob Galvin</a> from the Motorola Board of Directors, he was recruited by <a href="/wiki/Kelso_%26_Company" title="Kelso & Company">Kelso & Company</a>, the New York-based private equity firm, to manage IP strategy, business development and licensing for its IP-based portfolio company – <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Display_Technology" title="Cambridge Display Technology">Cambridge Display Technology</a> (CDT) – in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge, England">Cambridge, England</a>. </p><p>After establishing the strategy and licensing program at CDT for Kelso, Bergelt was then engaged by <a href="/wiki/Texas_Pacific_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas Pacific Group">Texas Pacific Group</a> (TPG) as a full-time advisor to its Technology Investment Group, until he was recruited by Principal Financial Group to establish and run the first-of-its-kind IP Fund and financial services advisory firm, focused on transforming IP into a viable source of collateral and a fourth lending vertical to complement asset-based lending backed by property/plant/equipment, accounts receivable and inventory. </p><p>During his tenure as the CEO of Paradox Capital, Bergelt worked with professionals from banking and IP law to raise over $350MM in capital that enabled Paradox to pioneer the emergence of IP as a viable asset class in asset-based lending and, in so doing, obviate the necessity for second lien lending into IP-rich companies.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Bergelt was then recruited by <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Red_Hat" title="Red Hat">Red Hat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a>, <a href="/wiki/NEC" title="NEC">NEC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philips" title="Philips">Philips</a> and <a href="/wiki/Novell" title="Novell">Novell</a> to serve as the CEO of <a href="/wiki/Open_Invention_Network" title="Open Invention Network">Open Invention Network</a>, a pro-competitive defensive patent management organization established to enable freedom to operate in Linux and to support the democratization of innovation occasioned by open source projects such as Linux.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>'Bergelt has been the <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">chief executive officer</a> of <a href="/wiki/Open_Invention_Network" title="Open Invention Network">Open Invention Network</a> since 2008. He is responsible for defending the integrity of the <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> ecosystem. Previously, Bergelt had criticized <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> several times for its behavior towards the open source community. When Microsoft changed its behavior, embraced the open source community and signed the Open Invention Network cross license, Bergelt was pleased with the company. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>“Microsoft’s participation in OIN adds to our strong community, which through its breadth and depth has reduced patent risk in core technologies, and unequivocally signals for all companies who are using OSS but have yet to join OIN, that the litmus test for authentic behavior in the OSS community includes OIN participation.” </p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Keith Bergelt</cite></div></blockquote> <p><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He has also been interviewed by <a href="/wiki/Linux.com" title="Linux.com">Linux.com</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at the 2008 <a href="/wiki/LinuxWorld_Conference_and_Expo" title="LinuxWorld Conference and Expo">LinuxWorld</a> Expo. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Keith_Bergelt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFNetwork" class="citation news cs1">Network, Open Invention. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/10/10/1619375/0/en/Microsoft-Joins-the-Open-Invention-Network-Community.html">"Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network Community"</a>. <i>GlobeNewswire News Room</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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