Chad S. Hilyard

Celerity IP, LLC

Chad Hilyard, Esq., is the co-founder and CEO of Celerity IP, where he leads a team of highly experienced technology and patent licensing professionals in the management and licensing of first-class patent portfolios. Chad has over 25 years of intellectual property law and business experience. Prior to co-founding Celerity IP, Chad was Chief Legal Officer for Hilco IP Merchant Banking, where he had significant responsibility for licensing and litigating standard essential patents. This included General Counsel for PanOptis and Unwired Planet, during its landmark litigations in the UK and the Eastern District of Texas. Chad also previously served as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Rockstar Consortium, where he and his team were responsible for patent assertions and licensing discussions, litigations, and patent portfolio management for the world-class patent portfolio obtained from Nortel. Prior to Rockstar, he was Managing Counsel at LSI Corporation and Agere Systems and was a partner at a Townsend and Townsend and Crew.