Don Bitting

Vice President of Business Development & Licensing at Strong Force

Role
Vice President, Business Development & Licensing at Strong Force Catalyst
Location
Philadelphia, PA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Don Bitting

Visionary tech & business executive with the mission to empower every person and every organization. A leader in growing revenues while carefully managing operational costs. A passionate and inspirational leader of individuals, teams, organizations, and partners with an outstanding track record of success and accomplishment. Experienced \"rainmaker\" in all aspects of business development, including strategy, finance, operations, and technology. A relationship expert and enabler of cross functional teams in the buildout, management and harvest of deal/opportunity pipelines. Innovative and experienced master negotiator capable of finding and bringing new opportunities as well as strengthening existing client and vendor relationships.

Experience

  1. Vice President, Business Development & Licensing

    Strong Force Catalyst

    Sep 2019 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

    Managed a P&L business focused on licensing and monetization of wholly owned patent portfolios. Curated and executed on a nine figure total signings opportunity value deal pipeline. Leveraged C-Suite relationships to develop and land licensing deals in a wide range of industry spaces including networking (5G, Wifi, Bluetooth), Industrial sensors, IoT platforms, digital twins, and financial transactions (dynamic lending). Strong Force delivers strategic advantage by systematically innovating across technologies, use cases, and ecosystems and by combining innovative material from a wide range of perspectives to create large, comprehensive, category-influencing patent portfolios. This approach enables it to capture broad market opportunity well before use-case adoptions emerge to drive more typical patenting activity. To benefit innovators and other stakeholders, Strong Force Catalyst delivers thought leadership, dissolves market boundaries, contributes disruptive innovation, and drives ecosystem participation to catalyze categories. We have created billions of dollars in value across a wide array of sectors and helped hundreds of visionary inventors, market leaders, and capital allocators succeed.

Education

  • Albright College

    BS, Triple Major: Physics, Comp Sci, & Mathematics, GPA: 3.52 (Cum Laude)

    1992 — 1996

  • University of Florida

    Ph. D., Materials Science and Engineering

    1998 — 2003

  • Lehigh University - College of Business and Economics

    MBA, Management

    1998 — 2002

  • University of Florida

    MS, Materials Science and Engineering

    1996 — 1998

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