<h2 id="tony">Tony Sebro - General Counsel</h2>

<p>Tony Sebro is a seasoned technology attorney with a broad base of

business and legal experience relating to technology, strategy, and

business development.  Before joining Conservancy, Tony was most recently

a Partner with the PCT Companies, a family of professional service firms.

Prior to that, he was Program Director, Technology & Intellectual

Property at IBM's Armonk, New York world headquarters, where he was

responsible for developing and executing licensing strategies in

partnership with IBM's Software Group.  In that role, Tony led

negotiations and structured deals with market leaders in the web

technology, e-commerce, retail, enterprise software, and financial

services sectors.  Tony also led various internal strategic initiatives,

including an effort to provide business leaders of key emerging market

opportunities with coordinated intellectual property development and

monetization strategies, as well as the revamping and supervision of IBM's

corporate-wide process for determining the value and availability of

patents for sale.  Prior to his tenure at IBM, Mr. Sebro practiced law in

the New York office of Kenyon & Kenyon, LLP, handling litigation and

licensing matters for clients in the medical, pharmaceutical and

mechanical technology areas.  Tony received his J.D. and his M.B.A. from

the University of Michigan.  He received his B.S. from the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology. Tony is a member of the New York bar and

registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Tony

is also an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit

community, and has served on the boards of multiple non-profit

organizations.</p>