Dr. Wilhelm is a respected advisor to many investment banking and private equity clients for intellectual property due diligence related to restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, and corporate spin-offs.   Wilhelm has over 20 years of experience in financial, economic, and technology consulting in support of intellectual property. During that period, Dr. Wilhelm co-founded the SBI Group – a major services firm focused on web applications and data technologies, and founded the commercial systems division at SRA – a major government and defense contractor. Dr. Wilhelm holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Math from Ripon College (Ripon, Wisconsin), Master of Science in Physics from University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota), and a PhD from University of Virginia in Systems Engineering (Charlottesville, Virginia).

Mr. Burke leads the technology team that powers The Patent Board’s analytic platform. Burke brings deep experience in large enterprise system integration, application architecture and enterprise data platforms.  He has held senior level technology positions at QInteractive, Scient, and Accenture. During this time, Burke has worked in the Online Marketing, Energy, Consumer Products, and Financial Services Industries. Burke holds a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana) in Industrial Engineering.

Mr. Hanagal guides the data team at The Patent Board.  With over 20 years of experience in the Information Technology (IT), financial and consulting services industries, Mr. Hanagal joined The Patent Board in 2005 from Thomson Financial where he served in a Senior Architecture role.  He has held similar senior positions at both Scient and Merrill Lynch, and has extensive experience using multiple relational database management system (RDBMS) technologies and has architected many large scale online transaction processing (OLTP) and decision support systems (DSS).  Hanagal holds an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE Mumbai, India), and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai, India). 

Ms. Hamilton currently handles The Patent Board’s clients outside of private industry. She serves as Principal Investigator on the long running Science & Engineering Indicators project for the National Science Foundation. She has over 25 years of experience programming and maintaining large relational databases, as well as analyzing indicators of scientific publishing at the national and institutional level. After starting her career at the US Census Bureau, she joined CHI Research, the pre-cursor to The Patent Board, and has worked on projects evaluating scientific research and analyzing patent indicators for many federal agencies, universities, and research institutes, both domestic and foreign. Ms. Hamilton holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics & Computer Science from the University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).