Elana Bertram

About Elana Bertram

Privacy & Compliance Executive | Scaled Privacy Programs Protecting 5.5M Users | M&A Integration Specialist | AI GovernanceBridging technology, business, and legal issues, Elana is Senior Counsel of Apps & Infrastructure for the Enterprise Services decision of RTX, Inc. She previously served as Vice President of Legal & Compliance at the healthcare software company Validic, Inc, a VC-backed startup that seamlessly and securely connects your data from wearables to your electronic health records. She\'s been an advisory board member to $1B AUM regional bank as well as several nonprofit organizations. In addition to law, she holds an MBA from Yale School of Management, with BA in biological sciences. Elana draws from an eclectic set of experiences and skills to steer clients towards increased profitability. Her law practice covered patent and trademark prosecution, licensing, and limited-scope litigation, but her greatest value-add is as a teammate. Drawing from a background in hard science, a law degree, and an MBA, she serves as a translator between those with technical expertise, legal compliance, and complex financial analytics. Prior to joining Validic, Inc, she worked on projects ranging multiparty clinical trial agreements; buy-side IP portfolio acquisitions; sell-side patent asset sales and licenses; Regulation D exempt private placement filings; regulatory analysis for startups in many industries from consumer products, food and beverage, and software; IP portfolio due diligence in pharma and tech; trademark prosecution on behalf of a variety of small businesses; utility and design patent drafting on behalf of domestic and international clients; and license negotiations with a university technology transfer unit. She was the Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association Young Lawyers Section for 2013-15. Attorney Bertram served as a vice chairman of the Town of Newtown Economic Development Commission from 2011 through 2015 and sat on the State of Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection Conservation Advisory Council for five years. She is married with two children.

Experience

1. Mentor

   Blue Startups

   Jul 2020 — Present

   Blue Startups was designed to give startup companies every advantage: mentorship, access to business expertise, product testing, peer review, customer acquisition, pitch development, introductions to investors, and seed funding. We were one of the first accelerator to join the Global Accelerator Network, an invite-only community founded by TechStars, that provides startups with the best resources to create and grow their businesses.Blue Startups is an intensive mentor-driven program. Our world class lead mentors provide hands on help without limiting their availability: each company is assigned a lead mentor that works with them exclusively throughout the program, and spends a significant amount of time with them. With access to our entire mentor network of experts (over 150) we guarantee all the help our companies need to get to the next stage. We have a strict “no sales” zone at Blue Startups, so we ensure that our mentors are there for the right reasons.We also choose the startups for the right reason: we look for the DNA of the founding team, coachability, diversity, balance of skill-sets, good communication on the team, mutual respect, vision and flexibility. We value innovation and integrity above all else. We only want to work with entrepreneurs who have a strong moral compass and a burning desire to bring innovation to society.

Education

• Quinnipiac University School of Law

  JD, Intellectual Property Concentration

  2008 — 2011

• Mount Holyoke College

  BA, Biological Sciences

  2000 — 2004

• Yale School of Management

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Asset Management

  2014 — 2016

• Universite Paul Valery

  junior year abroad, Biological Sciences, French translation, Russian

  2002 — 2003

• Koç University

  Global Network for Advanced Management Exchange Week October 2015, "From Local to Global: Concepts, Frameworks, & Analytical Tools to Develop Effective Global Strategy

  2015 — 2015

Skills

• Management
• Biotechnology
• Trademarks
• Entrepreneurship
• Licensing
• Civil Litigation
• Medical Devices
• Intellectual Property
• Leadership
• Healthcare
• Courts
• Patent Litigation
• Copyright Law
• Legal Research
• Oncology
• Lifesciences
• Research
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Recruiting
• Patents
• Technology Transfer
• Patent Prosecution
• Trade Secrets
• Legal Writing
• Public Speaking
• Start-Ups