Daniel P. McCurdy
Allied Security Trust
Daniel McCurdy, in August 2008, Mr. McCurdy was named Chief Executive Officer of Allied Security Trust. He is responsible for management of the Trust, patent acquisition and divestiture negotiations, and membership expansion. He remains Chairman of PatentFreedom, the on-line, subscription-based global authority on Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs) (sometimes called “patent trolls”), which also enables subscribers to anonymously exchange information on assertions they receive from NPEs. From June 2001 through May 2008, Mr. McCurdy was founding CEO of ThinkFire, an intellectual property advisory firm providing services to many of the world's leading technology companies and private equity firms. From March, 2000 to June 2001, Mr. McCurdy was president of Lucent Technologies' Intellectual Property Business. There, he managed 300 employees generating more than $500 million in annual revenues from the licensing of 26,000 worldwide patents. Prior to joining Lucent, he served as founding vice president of IBM's Life Sciences business unit, and vice president of corporate development for CIENA corporation where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions. From 1982 - 1997 Mr. McCurdy served in a variety of business and intellectual property management roles in IBM, including director of business development for IBM Research and IBM's corporate manager of technology and intellectual property policy worldwide. Mr. McCurdy received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina. He served on the Intellectual Property Policy committee of the United States' National Academies, and recently chaired an effort for the Center for American Progress providing intellectual property policy recommendations to the incoming Obama Administration.
(05/14)
