Venture Isles delivers service to its clients through a talented, smart and experienced team of independent professionals from around the globe. Clyde Hanson is the Managing Director of Venture Isles, LLC.

Entrepreneur Hanson founded his second company in 1995 and changed its focus and name to Venture Isles in 2008. Hanson started his marketing career while still in graduate school when he published reference books and sold them by direct mail and magazine advertising. One of the magazines recruited him so he changed careers from city planning to marketing and never looked back.

He became a rising star in one of the largest integrated marketing agencies in the world. There he built a multi-industry track record of success in moving consumer and business-to-business products and services through retail, independent distributors, and direct response media.

Many clients have benefited from his evidence-based marketing know-how learned by risking his own money to grow his first company. He balances left-brained analysis and statistics with right-brained creativity and synthesis. He is well known for making connections and seeing patterns, and "dead reckoning" when data is thin or when decisions have to be made on the fly.

Hanson is a lifelong learner. Some milestones:

• University of St. Thomas, Opus School of Business, MBA 4.0 GPA
• University of Iowa, MA Urban & Regional Planning
• University of Minnesota, BS Urban Studies

Hanson is a member of the Licensing Executives Society and the Lake Superior Angels Network. Hanson is the author of The Intellectual Property Marketeer blog. For a more detailed biography, see Hanson's LinkedIn profile. Venture Isles is a limited liability company chartered in Minnesota and is based in Minneapolis.  Here is what Venture Isles is about:

Mission:  To maximize our clients return on innovation

Vision:    To be a leader in the commercialization of innovation & discoveries

Values:   To continually learn, treat people well and enjoy the work

To collaborate with our clients, without delegating the projects back to them.

Core Team Subject Area Expertise

• Healthcare Products •Avionics • Software
• Medical Device • FDA Regulatory
• Product Design • High Volume Manufacturing
• Federal SBIR Commercialization Plans
• Patent Landscape Analysis

Venture Isles offers you a network of IP & Technical Advisors that delivers more value because we have no personnel costs to carry between assignments

Selected Venture Isles Intellectual Property, Technology and Science Advisors

Dick Sommerstad

Developed and implemented new business development strategies for the Academic & Corporate Relations Office at the University of Minnesota, as founding Director, and developed various economic and community development collaborative programs and projects with Mayo Clinic, Community Foundations, Cities, The State of Minnesota, and communities in the Midwest.

Developed an extensive personal network of local venture capital, legal, Government, Community, and business executives related to new business start-up and business development.  More information.

Jackie Hutter MS, JD

Jackie Hutter does our TrueView(tm) patent landscape surveys and claim analysis. Hutter is rated one of the top 250 Global IP Strategists by Intellectual Assets Management Magazine. Hutter's IP Asset Maximizer Blog is well worth subscribing to (free). She is a self-described "Recovering Patent Attorney" who now counts herself as one of the pioneering ranks of Intellectual Property ("IP") Strategists.

She was also recently featured in a Business Week "Game Changing" management ideas series. In addition, Jackie was named a SuperLawyer® in IP in Georgia in 2004 (her last year in private law practice), and she is a frequent speaker on IP strategy to business and legal professionals.

Hutter was Senior Patent Counsel to Georgia-Pacific LLC, where she had sole responsibility for Dixie® patent matters and, later, the company's Chemicals business. Before joining Georgia-Pacific, Jackie was a shareholder at the prestigious IP firm of Needle & Rosenberg, PC (now Ballard & Spahr). Jackie earned an M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and she spent several years as practicing chemist at Helene Curtis (now Unilever).

Paul Burgio, PhD

Paul Burgio, PhD. Medical Research, helps principal investigators at universities and industry labs develop robust data packages in support of commercially valuable patent claims in health care.

Burgio is a 25+ year 3M alum with several personal and employer IP Patents and has evaluated many IP technologies for in-licensing. He is a serial entrepreneur with has several start-ups under this belt. He became a consultant while still in graduate school on cellular oxygen meters. He has worked with cutting edge research tools in micro-electrodes & x-ray microscopy and biomaterials.

Product successes include tooth whiteners, patch & retentive coating drug delivery systems, environmental health breathing masks, dental implants, cochlear implants, electro-medicine pain control, long-term anti-bacterials, and electronic anesthesia control systems.

Don Janes, PhD. Chemistry

The retired head of 3M's federal research division, is lead science adviser for Venture Isles.

Peter Beacom

Software engineer, entrepreneur, and Principal of Quality Bunker, is lead software adviser for Venture Isles.

Karin Roof , MBA Sloan

Co-founder of MedLinX Consulting and is the MedTech adviser for Venture Isles.

Ms. Roof has more than 15 years of experience with leading medical device manufacturers and in management consulting. Her particular expertise is in strategic planning, innovation management, and clinical trials. Ms. Roof consulted with Fortune 500 companies specializing in Innovation Management, before returning to the medical technology industry as a Venture Manager at Medtronic Neurological and later driving the product/technology strategy group at Guidant/Boston Scientific.

Greg Mathison, CE

Greg Mathison is the president of Regulatory Strategies, Inc., is our medical device regulatory adviser (FDA, CE, ISO).

Starting in the medical device industry at Medtronic in 1979 as a chemical engineer, Greg moved to regulatory affairs in 1984. He has held management positions in regulatory/clinical/quality at Medtronic, Cardiac Pacemakers, Clarus Medical and Bacchus Vascular. Greg founded Regulatory Strategies in 1993 as a full service consulting firm focusing on U.S. and international regulatory, clinical and quality. He continues to specialize in strategic regulatory planning and finding creative solutions to regulatory issues.

Jared Fallos, BME, MBA

Our lead adviser for creative product improvement, design for manufacturing, and high volume manufacturing efficiency. Fallos was formerly with Hutchinson Technology and Innovex.

G. Byron Stephens, BSEE

Our avionics, autopilots, heads-up displays, secure & public radio communications, and portable air traffic control technology advisor with military, general aviation and supply chain platforms. A 30 year Honeywell alumnus, his designs are on the Presidential Helicopters, the first plane to fly around the world non-stop and the Royal Australian Flying Doctors Service, combat aircraft (F14,.F18, EA6B, US Army Helicopters) & military trainers, and executive jets (Lear, Citation, Embraer) and light civilian aircraft (Piper, Beech, & Cessna).

He is co-inventor of the Seamless Frequency Hopping secure radio, US Patent number 5,319,801, which solved the loss of information problem of quick frequency hops. He is also a musician who understands electronic musical instrument IP Technology and is a second generation patented inventor.

Andrew Schoneberg, TechTransfer Market Research and Sales Adviser

Andrew has marketed Department of Defense, NASA, Fortune 500 and small business innovations to both the Fortune 500 and SMEs. He provides Venture Isles clients with valuable insights on the market potential for their new inventions, proposed products or services.

Andrew has provided over 50 custom market assessments on intellectual property for the U.S. Department of Defense, several U.S. government laboratories, and private businesses. He has over 20 years experience conducting qualitative market research, including competitive analysis, predicting market trends, and understanding consumer needs and preferences.

Kevin Ryan, CEO

Turning Point 360 brings experience in manufacturing, sustainable energy, consumer products and agriculture to clients of Venture Isles. He mentors leadership teams and CEO's.