James J Kernell  of Erickson, Kernell, Derusseau & Kleypas, LLC, had over 12 years of industry experience in electrical and software engineering before entering the practice of law. He is involved in all phases of patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright related matters, including litigation, patent and trademark searches, preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications, and preparation of license agreements. His patent prosecution work focuses on electrical and computer technologies including software, hardware and internet related technologies. Mr. Kernell is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Missouri Bar and the Kansas Bar. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, the Kansas Bar Association and IEEE. Mr. Kernell is also admitted to the Federal District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, and the District of Kansas. Mr. Kernell holds a BSEE degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia, MSCSE from the University of Texas at Arlington, and JD from the University of Missouri at Kansas City

Resat Nejo Necar  has over 40 years of experience in the analog and mixed-signal semiconductor industry, as a researcher, design engineer, and a business executive, and is currently the president of Rn² Associates LLC.

His industry experience includes a Research Fellowship at the Electronics Division of the Marmara Research Institute (1972 – 1979), Director of Custom IC Design Engineering, Director of Strategic Markets Business Unit, and Director of Worldwide Field Application Engineering at Exar Corporation (1979 – 1997), and working as the VP of Corporate Business Development, VP of Marketing Power Management Products, and VP of Strategies & Business Development at Semtech Corporation (1997 – 2008).

Mr Necar shares the wealth of his expertise with AvaTekh in a wide range of areas, including system and IC design and engineering, marketing, sales, business unit management, and corporate business development.

Glenn E Prescott  is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas. His research area is military communication systems, covert communications, digital signal processing for communications and radar, and software radio systems

Dr. Prescott's professional career began as an Air Force radar technician during the Vietnam era. After completing his degree in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech, he received an Air Force commission and became a communications-electronics officer. In this capacity he worked as a satellite communications engineer and then commander of a NATO troposcatter relay base. Later in his career, he completed his Master’s degree from the University of Missouri and a Ph. D. from Georgia Tech - all in electrical engineering. During the last five years of his military career he was a faculty member at the Air Force Institute of Technology - the Air Force’s graduate school. During this appointment he worked with various components of the Air Force Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, and Rome AFB in New York

Upon retiring from the Air Force in the rank of Major, Dr. Prescott joined the faculty of the University of Kansas in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and began a career in research and teaching. He teaches courses in digital signal processing and digital communications and conducts research in the Information and Telecommunications Technology Center. During his 23 years at KU, he served a long-term 11-year part-time appointment with NASA as a Program Executive for Technology in the Earth Science Technology Office, where he was responsible for building research programs that helped sustain NASA's Earth science program at NASA Headquarters and Goddard Space Flight Center