Wil Jacques is a senior intellectual property subject matter expert with over 25 years of development, patenting, commercialization, and licensing experience in public and private sector engineering, manufacturing, and sales organizations. After stints with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Prudential, Union Carbide/Praxair, Competitive Technologies, IP Finance, Nerac, CPA Global, and Sun Life Financial, he founded Emanus to provide patenting, innovation development, commercialization, and IP licensing services.
Though providing a broader range of services, his practice has focused on assisting universities, early-stage entrepreneurs and small/medium size companies attract capital investments and out-licensing opportunities with larger more established market players. His specific competencies include patented technology valuation, market due diligence, business opportunity identification, and licensing negotiations.
Mr. Jacques’ past client work has included Florida A&M University, University of Hartford, University of Connecticut, Monsanto, IBM, Lucent, Microvi Biotech, GB Techologies, GeneLabs Technologies, etc.