Lou Berneman is an experienced intellectual property licensing and business development executive. He has founded and financed entrepreneurial ventures and has built and managed a university technology transfer program.

Currently, Lou is the Principal of Texelerate, a development-stage intellectual property trading company. Since September 2005, Texelerate has been functioning as a consultancy specializing in academic-industry technology commercialization. Texelerate clients include academic research institutions and teaching hospitals, companies and law firms. Berneman is a consultant to and member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Paul Capital Partners Royalty Healthcare Funds.

Berneman is a Past President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) and a former Vice President and Trustee of the Licensing Executives Society (LES USA & Canada). He has served as a member of the Board of the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Association, Greater Philadelphia Venture Group and the LES Foundation. Dr. Berneman is the 2005 recipient of the LES Barnes Mentoring Award and a 2003 recipient of an Award of Excellence from the Association of University Research Parks.

From 1995-2005, Dr. Berneman was Managing Director of the Center for Technology Transfer (CTT) at the University of Pennsylvania. Under his leadership, CTT became one of the most productive university technology licensing offices in the world:

• filing more than 1500 patents,
• consummating more than 600 option/license agreements,
• launching more than 80 new start up ventures, and
• generating more than $100 million in license income.

From 1989-1995, Berneman was Director, Licensing and Business Development at Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology. From 1984-1989, he founded and served as President and CEO of Biotherapeutics, Inc., a provider of cancer biotherapy services. He also helped found and served as a Director of Innotech, Inc., an ophthalmic manufacturing system. From 1982-1984, he was VP of Marketing and Sales of Immuno-Modulators Laboratories, Inc., an emerging biopharmaceuticals company. From 1976-1982, he was Assistant Professor of Education at University of Houston.

Dr. Berneman holds a baccalaureate degree in history from the Pennsylvania State University, a teaching credential from University of California at Santa Barbara, and masters and doctoral degrees in education from Teachers College, Columbia University.