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About Our Management Team |
Management |
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Alexander I. Poltorak is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of General Patent Corporation. Prior to establishing GPC in 1989, Dr. Poltorak was the president of Poltorak Associates Inc., a management consulting and patent licensing firm, which he formed in 1987. Before that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Rapitech Systems, Inc., a publicly traded computer technology company that he co-founded in 1983. Prior to Rapitech, Dr. Poltorak served as Assistant Professor of Biomathematics at the Neurology Department of Cornell University Medical College, where he conducted research in image processing and computer tomography. He also served as Assistant Professor of Physics at Touro College. Dr. Poltorak has published several papers in scientific journals. Dr. Poltorak emigrated from the former U.S.S.R. in 1982, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Physics at the age of 22 for a significant breakthrough in Einstein's Theory of Relativity. As a political dissident, he was later stripped of his degrees for anticommunist activities. Dr. Poltorak is a member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), National Association of Corporate Directors, the New York Academy of Science, and the American Physical Society. He was a U.S. co-chairman for the Subcommittee on Information Exchange of the US-USSR Trade and Economic Counsel. He is a member of the editorial board of Patent Strategy & Management, for which he co-wrote "Corporate Officers and Directors Can Be Liable for Mismanaging Intellectual Property". The article appeared in its May and June issues. He is co-author with Paul J. Lerner of an article about Grain Processing v. American Maize Products, "Grain, Grain, Go Away", which examines recent major developments in patent infringement litigation damage awards. The article appeared in the February, 2000 edition of Intellectual Property Worldwide. In June of 2000 Dr. Poltorak delivered a lecture on technology transfer from Russia at the International Technology Transfer Seminar organized by the American Conference Institute. His article "Patent Enforcement: To Sue or Not to Sue?" was recently published by the Inventor's Digest magazine. |