Stuart has over 15 years of sales, consulting, and services experience, with the past 5 years focused exclusively on helping companies better manage their intellectual property. As the Vice President of Professional Services for Thomson Scientific and Health Care Corporate Markets group, Stuart and his team are responsible for ensuring that Thomson customer’s get the most value out of the products and services providing by the Thomson organization. This includes providing on-going e-learning education programs to help customers get quickly up to speed on new products, defining and managing customer centric consulting projects, along with developing new services and education programs to meet customers’ requirements. Stuart joined Thomson as part of the part of the MicroPatent acquisition in November 2004 where he managed the Professional Services team for 2 and ½ years. Prior to MicroPatent, Stuart managed the account management and consulting services organization with Aurigin Systems. In addition, Stuart has worked at Hewlett-Packard as a Principal Consultant advising Fortune 100 customers on best practices within the asset management industry and successfully managed dozens of consulting engagements. At General Foods Corporation, Stuart was responsible for leading competitive analyses of major players within the Food and Beverage industry. Stuart holds an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.