LES CLP Exam Instructors

Mihaela Bojin, Ph.D., CLP
Senior Associate Director, University of Iowa Research Foundation
Mihaela Bojin is a Senior Associate Director at the University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF).  She has extensive expertise in intellectual capital management (licensing, business and intellectual property assessment, partnerships) in a variety of areas, such as pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, medical devices, and software.Mihaela is a Certified Licensing Professional () and a registered patent agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  Since 2020, she has been included in the IAM Strategy 300, an elite global group of IP strategists.

Prior to joining UIRF, Mihaela was a patent agent at a New York City Intellectual Property Practice Group, an assistant professor on tenure track at the City University of New York, and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Davis, and at New York University.  Mihaela holds a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from Cornell University, and a BSc in Chemistry from University of Bucharest, Romania.
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Bob Held, CLP
President, Held Intellectual Property LLC
With over 20 years of experience as a licensing executive, Bob Held has extensive experience in all facets of intellectual property (IP), including monetization, management, acquisitions, expert witness, contracts, negotiations, IP in government contracting & the FAR/DFAR, people management, budgets, valuation, marketing, strategic agreements, university & government agreements, IP issues in M&A, IP training & public speaking and strategic and tactical input on all IP matters.

Bob has been a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) since the inception of the CLP program in 2008. Since 2015 Bob has been nominated and received the honor of being named an Intellectual Asset Magazine (IAM) 300 World's Leading IP Strategists.
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Karthika Perumal, Ph.D.,
Partner in the Technology Transactions practice of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

Karthika Perumal, Ph.D. is a Partner in the Technology Transactions practice of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP. Karthika’s practice involves all aspects of technology law with an emphasis on the protection, acquisition, and monetization of intellectual property in the healthcare and energy sectors across a wide range of technologies, such as biotechnology, biomedical devices, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, oil and gas processing, and software. Karthika handles a variety of transactions, including multiparty collaborations, joint ventures, manufacturing, supply, distribution, and software development, service, and support agreements. She leverages her background in scientific research and technology transfer to help clients meet their business objectives at every stage of product development. She has developed commercialization strategies for several technologies and participated in the structuring and financing of several startup companies.

Karthika has a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas and a JD from the University of Houston Law Center. She is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP), the Immediate Past-President and Immediate Past-Chair of Licensing Executives Society - USA & Canada, and she has written extensively on IP licensing issues. She has been recognized by U.S. News in the Best Lawyers in America® 2024 edition for Technology Law and Trade Secrets Law. Karthika is committed to advancing and sponsoring careers of diverse professionals in the STEM and legal fields and is the recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Diversity Award from the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association. Connect on LinkedIn 


Graham Rogers,
Principal in the Forensic, Litigation, and Valuation Services. 

Graham Rogers is a Principal in the Forensic, Litigation, and Valuation Services. His professional career spans more than 30 years. For more than 20 of these years, Graham has been assisting clients with their intellectual property needs. He has been retained as an expert to determine economic damages in a variety of litigation matters including patent infringement, trademark infringement, theft of trade secrets, and copyright infringement disputes.  Graham has testified in several federal jurisdictions as well as various state courts.

Additionally, Graham is certified to provide Fair Market Value opinions of intangible assets for a variety of needs. Graham has also assisted clients with their intellectual asset management needs including intangible asset inventories, pricing, and royalty audits.

Prior to joining EisnerAmper, Graham operated his own firm, for more than nine years. Prior to that, Graham held senior leadership positions at national and regional accounting firms. While at these firms, Graham assisted clients with their litigation support and valuation needs. His prior experience has provided him the practical foundation (economic modeling, discovery assistance, financial statement review and industry/market research) required to successfully handle expert witness needs, valuation matters, and intellectual asset management needs.
Graham served as a naval officer in the U.S. Navy for seven years. While in the Navy, Graham was an engineering officer aboard two naval warships responsible for machinery and personnel management, and quality control. While assigned to U.S. Space Command’s Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base, Graham was the most junior officer to ever attain the position of Missile Warning Center Crew Commander and Chief of Standardization and Evaluation.

Graham is a speaker on a variety of topics including intellectual property damages and intellectual property valuation. Connect on LinkedIn 

Paul A. Stewart, CLP
Managing Director, PASCO Ventures LLC
Paul A. Stewart is a Past President & Chair of the Board of Governors of the Certified Licensing Professionals organization and is listed in the 2023 edition of Intellectual Asset Management magazine’s “IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists.” Following a 25-year career at Eli Lilly and Company, and its animal health spin-out business Elanco, he retired from Lilly in 2012 and formed PASCO Ventures LLC to help a select group of clients with complex global licensing matters. Stewart is the inventor on US Patent 11,411,531 (titled “Cleaning Method for Solar Panels”). Stewart has done deals on all continents except Antarctica; he has a B.S. from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard. He resides in the Denver area. Connect on LinkedIn