James Hu

EXPERIENCE

Director of Legal Affairs, Focus Technologies,Inc., Herndon, VA (4/02 to present)

· Serve as chief legal counsel for a $85 million high growth biopharmaceutical and information technology services business.
· Supervise and manage all legal functions for three business groups and provide related advice and guidance to senior management and board of directors.
· Responsible for all patent, licensing, trademark and related intellectual property matters, including drafting and negotiation of complex licensing agreements, review of patent applications and designing patent and licensing strategies.
· Counsel in all areas of corporate, employment, technology, healthcare, export control laws and other governmental regulations, including development and review of appropriate compliance and risk assessment documentation.

Principal, Helios Concepts, North Bethesda, MD (5/01 to 4/02)

· Provided legal and business expertise in the assessment of emerging information and software technologies and bioscience technologies.
· Performed feasibility studies and evaluated client technologies, intellectual property, product development, products and services agreements, licensing, regulatory and market development activities.
· Advised and identified merger and acquisition targets and new business and partnership
opportunities for clients.

General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Aegisoft Corp., Rockville, MD (2/98 to 1/01)

· Served as chief legal officer and was responsible for and led the company from start-up phase to a commercially successful revenue generating software/e-commerce company. Negotiated and counseled the Company on exit strategies through a sale and merger with RealNetworks, Inc.
· Negotiated, drafted, and managed over 50 software technology/collaboration agreements with various companies, including AT&T, Viacom, Blockbuster, and RealNetworks. Constructed and developed the Company’s strategic vision, business models, business plan, financial projections, and corporate strategic alliances.
· Identified and protected the company’s patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets.
· Served as lead counsel in raising over $4.8 million in private and venture financings, in drafting and negotiating all offering documents, and in managing investor relations.

Director of Corporate Development
Stem Cell Therapeutics, King of Prussia, PA (4/97 to 8/98)

· Formulated and implemented Company’s licensing and corporate policy and strategy including identifying potential collaborations and negotiating contractual arrangements/partnerships.
· Assisted in raising capital from private capital and government research grants.
· Conducted market research analysis to exploit proprietary research and development efforts.
· Managed all aspects of an early-stage biotechnology company including: financing, legal, administrative, and scientific affairs.

Associate Director of Technology Transfer,
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (9/96 to 4/97)

· Managed, identified, evaluated and licensed technologies that arise from Temple’s research laboratories.
· Actively marketed such discoveries to industry in an effort to enhance opportunities for licensing and research collaboration.
· Responsible for all areas of technology-based business management, including formulating intellectual property strategies, business planning, technology evaluation, and intellectual property management of spin-off companies.
· Designed and executed methods for increasing license and collaborative research opportunities.
· Drafted and negotiated options/licenses, material transfer agreements, and industry-sponsored research agreements.

Corporate Development Consultant
Cytogen Corp, Princeton, NJ (5/95-12/95)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (9/95-6/96)

· Assessed the commercial potential, identified and marketed to potential licensees, and drafted license agreements with technology companies.
· Developed patent strategy as they related to new product development programs and managed outside patent law firms.

EDUCATION
College of Law, Syracuse University
Juris Doctorate, May 1996
Associate Editor, Law, Technology & Management and International Law Journal

University of California, Los Angeles
B.S. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, August 1991
B.S. Economics, August 1991

AFFILIATIONS
Licensing Executives Society, Member
Maryland Technology Council, Member
Chinese Biopharmaceutical Association, Board Member