Changhae Park is senior vice president and chief IP officer at NXP Semiconductors and is based in Austin, Texas. In this role he leads all aspects of IP matters including IP creation, IP counseling and IP monetisation. Before this he was the head of IP monetisation at NXP and chief IP officer at Freescale Semiconductor. Dr Park started as a research engineer in the semiconductor industry and has an extensive technical background in semiconductor design, manufacturing and applications. He held several technical and managerial positions in Cypress semiconductor and Motorola’s semiconductor products sector before completing his MBA program and becoming the head of an R&D organization in Motorola. His career in IP monetisation started while leading the R&D organisation and was initially focused on technology transfer and licensing. This eventually led to an expanded role of managing all IP licensing activities in Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector and later Freescale Semiconductor. He has led numerous IP monetisation campaigns and generated over $2bn from a number of deals with major corporations in the semiconductor and electronics industries around the world. Dr Park is originally from South Korea. He received his bachelors degree from Ajou University in Suwon, South Korea, his master’s and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA degree from Arizona State University.