Vice President, Business Development
Ilja Bedner is the Vice President of Business Development at RPX Corporation. Prior to joining RPX, Mr. Bedner had a successful tenure at the License-On-Transfer (LOT) Network, a preventative solution for patent assertion entities where he helped grow the LOT Network from 50 members to over 4,000 member companies.
Mr. Bedner brings over 20 years of experience in the intellectual property industry, with previous roles at Unified Patents, Via, Technicolor, Intellectual Ventures, and Hewlett-Packard. At Technicolor, he served as VP of Licensing, building programs and engaging in patent licensing discussions. At Intellectual Ventures, he was the Managing Director of Strategic Investors Relations, focusing on the needs of strategic investors, licensees, and customers. At Hewlett-Packard, Ilja was a CTO and founding member of HP’s IP Licensing department.
Mr. Bedner earned his Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.