Joy is a Registered Patent Agent for the US Patent & Trademark Office. He is also a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) reviewer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Joy is a past recipient of AUTM's Howard Bremer Scholarship.

In his capacity as Chair of the Financial Management Portfolio, Joy oversees AUTM's Audit, Finance and Investment Committees.

He retired from the University of Illinois where he served as Associate Vice President, Technology and Economic Development, and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research at the Chicago campus. David is past Chair, Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc. (CLP) and is current Chair of CLP Standards, Admissions, and Recertification. He also served as AUTM’s first representative to the ATTP Council and is a current member of the Review Panel. He was selected as the first France-USA Technology Transfer Exchange Fellow. 

In his capacity as Cabinet Chair of the International Strategy Portfolio, he oversees regional committees for Africa, Australasia, Canada, Europe, and Latin America, and leads efforts to develop key international alliances with select technology transfer associations worldwide. David is the recipient of the 2019 AUTM Chair’s Award. 

Prior to Rowan, Yatin worked as Associate Director of the Office of Technology Transfer at Lehigh University and as Project & Technology Manager at North Carolina State University’s OTT. He has more than 15 years of combined experience managing all aspects of technology transfer, intellectual property, innovation management, licensing, commercialization, venture development and entrepreneurship in an academic environment.

In his capacity as Chair of the Professional Development Portfolio, Yatin oversees the Online and In-person Professional Development Committees.

Prior to joining UCLA, Ragan worked at Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV), the technology transfer office for Columbia University in New York City.

There, he was part of the operations team and led a variety of projects including organizing licensee compliance, improving the patent decision process, and programming an internal website for management reporting.

In his capacity as Chair of the Metrics & Surveys Portfolio, Ragan oversees the Licensing Survey Task Force and Salary Survey Task Force.

Before joining AUTM in 2016, Leef was the Deputy Head of Marketing & Communications at Cambridge Enterprise, the innovation office of the University of Cambridge.

While Leef is a big fan of corporate communications, she bleeds ink, having spent 16 years as a reporter for The Washington Post. There she covered every manner of story — from terrorism to the folly of the weather. She still fancies herself an advocate for the public good.

In her capacity as Chair of the Marketing & Communications Portfolio, Leef oversees the Strategic Communications, Website, Better World Project and AUTM Innovation Marketplace Committees.

In his capacity as Cabinet Chair of the Advocacy & Alliances Portfolio, Mike oversees the Public Policy Advisory Committee, the Public Policy Legal Task Force and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committee. He is a past recipient of both AUTM's Bayh-Dole Award, and Volunteer of the Year Award. He serves as an advisor for the AUTM Foundation.