Michael Waltrip is the executive director of IP strategy and Wireless research at Lenovo, where he leads the development of IP strategy under the CTO’s office and manages Wireless Research. He just recently joined Lenovo after three and half years at SRI International, most recently serving as Senior Executive, IP Strategy and Commercialization, where he led IP monetization for SRI. He also managed the Intellectual Capital Management (ICM) group at SRI, where he was responsible for commercialization strategy. The ICM group was the innovation and intellectual property management function at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), formally a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, representing Xerox’s R&D arm, where Michael served as the Managing Director. He was also Managing Director of Xerox’s Intellectual Property Strategy and Commercialisation group under Xerox Legal’s IP Department from 2017-2023. The novel approach of placing Michael within both the R&D organization, reporting to the VP of Innovation Strategy, and the IP legal department, reporting to the Chief IP Counsel, helped to more closely integrate innovation strategy with IP strategy.