Katharine Wolanyk serves as Independent Director of the Company. Ms. Wolanyk is a Managing Director at Burford Capital, LLC, where she leads the Chicago office as well as Burford’s intellectual property (“IP”) business. Ms. Wolanyk’s career spans the business, legal and engineering arenas, with a particular focus in IP. She was named a World’s Leading IP Strategist by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) in 2015 through 2018, and writes and speaks frequently on IP issues. Prior to joining Burford, Ms. Wolanyk was President, Chief Legal Officer and a Board member of Soverain Software, an enterprise software company whose patent portfolio has been licensed extensively in the software and Internet retailing industries. Ms. Wolanyk also was IP counsel to Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a publicly traded IT solutions firm, General Counsel of Data Return LLC, a managed hosting provider, Senior Vice President of corporate development at Divine, Inc., a publicly traded enterprise software company a corporate attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP, and a systems engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company. Ms. Wolanyk earned her JD from the University of Chicago Law School, and a BS in engineering from Michigan State University. She has served on the University of Chicago Law School Visiting Committee and on the Board of Managers of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago.
As the Independent Director of Acacia Research Corp, the total compensation of Katharine Wolanyk at Acacia Research Corp is 139,169$. There are 7 executives at Acacia Research Corp getting paid more, with Clifford Press having the highest compensation of 1,295,510$.
Katharine Wolanyk is 56, she's been the Independent Director of Acacia Research Corp since 2019. There are 8 older and 3 younger executives at Acacia Research Corp. The oldest executive at Acacia Research Corp is Isaac Kohlberg, 69, who is the Independent Director.
Katharine's mailing address filed with the SEC is 4 PARK PLAZA, SUITE 550, , IRVINE, CA, 92614.
Over the last 17 years, insiders at Acacia Research Corp have traded over 69,148,915$ worth of Acacia Research Corp stock and bought 2,788,267 units worth 12,012,090$ . The most active insiders traders include Value Lpstarboard Value & O...、Principal Co Lp Starboard P...、G Louis Iii Graziadio. On average, Acacia Research Corp executives and independent directors trade stock every 15 days with the average trade being worth of 1,424,595$. The most recent stock trade was executed by Jason W. Soncini on 17 May 2024, trading 5,000 units of ACTG stock currently worth 26,800$.
acacia research corporation (nasdaq: actg) is the industry leader in patent licensing. by partnering with patent owners, acacia applies its deep legal and technology expertise to patent assets to unlock financial value. an intermediary in the patent market, acacia facilitates efficiency and delivers monetary rewards to the patent owner. with this strategy, acacia has generated over $1,200,000,000 revenue to date, and has returned more than $705,000,000 to our patent partners.
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