Nine Ocean Tomo Experts Named to the 2026 IAM Strategy 300 - The World's Leading Intellectual Property Strategists

Recognition spans every corner of Ocean Tomo's practice, reflecting the firm's integrated approach to the business of intellectual property and emerging AI assets.

NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ocean Tomo, a part of J.S. Held, has nine experts named to the 2026 IAM Strategy 300, the industry guide to the world's leading intellectual property (IP) strategists. The honorees are Gregory Campanella, John A. Hudson, David Kennedy, Brian W. Napper, Larry Tedesco, Ozer Teitelbaum, Marek Wernik, Sam Wiley, and Ryan Zurek. Together they represent all four corridors of Ocean Tomo's services: Expert Opinion; Valuation and Strategy; Advisory; Patent Analysis and Reverse Engineering, with combined expertise in IP valuation, licensing, economic damages, patent transactions, FRAND/SEP analysis, and strategic advisory across the full lifecycle of intangible assets.

The IAM Strategy 300 recognizes those who innovatively create and implement strategies that support IP as a critical business asset. Commenting on the recognition, James E. Malackowski, Chief Intellectual Property Officer at J.S. Held and Ocean Tomo Co-founder, shares, "Seeing colleagues recognized across every part of our practice tells me our integrated approach is delivering for clients. This honor reflects the depth of talent we've built at Ocean Tomo and affirms our role as trusted advisors focused on the business of intellectual property, broadly defined."

Meet the World's Leading IP Strategists from Across Ocean Tomo

In its 2026 Strategy 300 profiles, IAM describes each Ocean Tomo honoree:

Gregory Campanella, CLP -- Senior Managing Director, Valuation and Strategy
"Gregory Campanella helps organisations make smarter decisions around their most valuable assets. His expertise in IP valuation, monetisation and strategic transactions enables clients to navigate acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures, and licensing opportunities with confidence." -- IAM Strategy 300

John A. Hudson -- Senior Managing Director, Office of the Chief IP Officer
"For John Hudson, intellectual property is more than a legal asset – it is a catalyst for business transformation. Drawing on decades of experience in transactions, commercialisation, and strategic advisory, he helps organisations reshape their businesses around the value of innovation." -- IAM Strategy 300

David Kennedy, CPA -- Senior Managing Director, Expert Opinion
"David Kennedy has spent decades advising on the commercial economics of intellectual property, helping clients structure high-value licensing deals, patent transactions, and royalty frameworks. His depth of experience in valuation, FRAND, and expert testimony makes him a trusted voice in complex IP disputes and negotiations." -- IAM Strategy 300

Brian W. Napper -- Senior Managing Director, Expert Opinion
"When disputes hinge on the economics of intellectual property, Brian W. Napper is frequently called upon to provide the answer. His work on FRAND licensing, patent damages and valuation has influenced precedent-setting cases and shaped the way complex IP disputes are assessed." -- IAM Strategy 300

Larry Tedesco, CVA, CLP, MAFF -- Senior Managing Director, Expert Opinion
"Larry Tedesco has built a career extracting commercial value from intellectual property. Equally experienced in valuation, licensing, FRAND analysis, and damages, he brings a rare operator's perspective to complex patent transactions and business-critical disputes across technology-driven industries." -- IAM Strategy 300

Ozer Teitelbaum, JD -- Managing Director, Advisory
"Few practitioners have seen intellectual property from as many angles as Ozer Teitelbaum. His background, spanning in-house leadership, patent law, business strategy, and investment, enables him to structure sophisticated IP transactions that create lasting commercial value." -- IAM Strategy 300

Marek Wernik -- Senior Director, Patent Analysis and Reverse Engineering
"Marek Wernik has spent more than three decades at the forefront of telecommunications and IP strategy. His rare combination of technical expertise, licensing experience, and executive leadership enables clients to navigate complex innovation and commercialisation challenges across global technology markets." -- IAM Strategy 300

Sam Wiley -- Managing Director, Patent Analysis and Reverse Engineering
"Patent intelligence sits at the heart of Sam Wiley's work. Drawing on experience spanning the USPTO, industry, and strategic advisory, he helps organisations uncover actionable insights that strengthen portfolio decisions, support transactions, and unlock the full business value of intellectual property." -- IAM Strategy 300

Ryan Zurek -- Senior Managing Director, Advisory
"From licensing strategies to IP-backed investments and complex transactions, Ryan Zurek helps clients navigate the commercial side of intellectual property. His background in valuation and deal advisory enables him to identify opportunities that maximise the financial return on innovation." -- IAM Strategy 300

Ocean Tomo Experts Recognized in Both the 2026 IAM Patent 1000 and IAM Strategy 300

This honor builds on a strong year for Ocean Tomo.  In June 2026 the firm's experts were named among the World's Leading Patent Professionals in the IAM Patent 1000, where IAM reported, "Ocean Tomo, a part of J.S. Held, remains a heavyweight in the global IP advisory and damages space, combining deep financial, technical, and licensing expertise with decades of experience handling some of the world's most consequential IP disputes."  Together these back-to-back recognitions underscore the depth and breadth of talent across Ocean Tomo's integrated team. 

Learn More About the World's Leading IP Strategists from Ocean Tomo

Learn more about the Ocean Tomo IAM Strategy 300 honorees and how they help realize and protect value across the full lifecycle of your intellectual property, visit: https://oceantomo.com/insights/nine-ocean-tomo-experts-named-to-the-2026-iam-strategy-300. To connect with one of the experts, email oceantomo@jsheld.com.

Ocean Tomo's 360 Degree Intellectual Property Expertise

These experts are part of the industry's most comprehensive global IP consulting group. Ocean Tomo's 360 Degree Intellectual Property Expertise provides continuous feedback enhancing the team's ability to deliver credible, actionable insights across all matters involving intangible assets.

Clients benefit from Ocean Tomo's unique understanding of IP value, which is driven by the firm's engagement across all matters involving intangible assets, spanning strategic planning, investments, disputes, and transactions. Litigation outcomes refine valuation methodologies, while advisory engagements are shaped by real-world insights from both the boardroom and public markets. Our transaction outcomes, buying, selling, and licensing IP, validate strategic decisions and inform how IP is valued in practice. Ocean Tomo valuations used by IP owners to access capital provide insight into how financial institutions recognize IP as a bankable asset.

As a part of J.S. Held, Ocean Tomo works alongside more than 1,500 professionals globally and assists with complex technical, scientific, and financial matters across all assets and value at risk. The team of experts has deep experience with tangible and intangible assets protected by IP.

About J.S. Held

J.S. Held is a global consulting firm that combines technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to advise clients seeking to realize value and mitigate risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high stakes matters demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, proven experience, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.

More than 1,500 professionals serve organizations across six continents, including 84% of the Global 200 Law Firms, 75% of the Forbes Top 20 Insurance Companies (90% of the NAIC Top 50 Property & Casualty Insurers), and 71% of Fortune 100 Companies.

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Nine Ocean Tomo Experts Named to the 2026 IAM Strategy 300 - The World's Leading Intellectual Property Strategists

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As online scams, coercive debt collection, and lending that outruns what households can repay spread across Asia, consumer protection is failing where it counts: in practice. This is the finding of a new report by the Fair Finance Asia (FFA) network and research partner, Profundo. Empowering Consumers as Partners in Sustainability: Case Studies on Financial Regulation and Implementation calls on regulators and banks to close the gap between regulation and delivery, and to treat consumers as partners in sustainability, not passive customers.

Building on FFA's 2024 consumer empowerment scorecard, the report presents four case studies: over-indebtedness in Cambodia, cybersecurity fraud in Thailand, women entrepreneurs' access to finance in Pakistan, and consumer engagement and accountability in Indonesia. Each case maps how far enforcement delivers on regulation. This report was developed with Fair Finance Cambodia, ResponsiBank Indonesia, Fair Finance Pakistan, and Fair Finance Thailand.

Bernadette Victorio, Program Lead, Fair Finance Asia, said: "Across Asia, consumers are handed rights they cannot use. A complaint line no one answers. A fraud alert you have to know how to switch on. A loan approved without asking whether the household can repay it. These are not gaps in regulation, they are failures of delivery that fall hardest on women entrepreneurs, the elderly, and low-income borrowers. Banks and regulators already have the fix: protections that are automatic, not optional; grievance mechanisms that end in redress, not silence; lending built on what people can repay."

Juliette Laplane, Senior Researcher, Profundo, said: ''Even with consumer protection rules in place, major implementation gaps remain. Across all four cases, the common thread is clear: regulation alone is insufficient; it must be backed by proactive disclosure, accessible grievance mechanisms, meaningful consumer engagement, and robust enforcement to hold financial institutions accountable.''

Over-indebtedness in Cambodia

Although financial consumer protection was the highest-scoring theme in FFA's 2024 scorecard, Cambodian banks scored lowest among the four countries. Borrowers still face inadequate debt burden assessments, inconsistent complaint handling, abusive collection practices, and vulnerable collateral.

Recommendations for banks:

• Comply with the Code of Conduct for banking and financial institutions (BFIs).
• Assess borrowers' ability to repay systematically.
• Restrict collateral practices that compound over-indebtedness.
• Adopt responsible collection guidelines, extend them to third parties, and make complaints handling transparent.

Recommendations for the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC):

• Mandate annual public audits on consumer protection.
• Standardize repayment capacity assessments.
• Cap recovery fees and sanction unethical practices.
• Ban high-risk collateral and back the Financial Consumer and Protection Centre (FCPC).

Sophoan Phean, National Director, Oxfam in Cambodia, said: "While Cambodia has made important progress in developing its financial consumer protection framework, stronger implementation and accountability are needed. Addressing over-indebtedness requires effective grievance mechanisms, responsible lending practices, and stronger accountability."

Consumer Cybersecurity Risk in Thailand

Thai banks scored highest on consumer protection, yet fraud proliferates, exposing the elderly and digitally excluded customers the most. The gaps: weak financial literacy programs, inconsistent coverage of banking agents, optional rather than automatic security alerts, and no interim compensatory relief for victims.

Recommendations for banks:

• Make all security alerts free and automatic.
• Monitor complaint mechanisms transparently.
• Train consumers on cyber threats and sound financial management.

 Recommendations for the Bank of Thailand (BoT):

• Regulate human-facing scam tactics.
• Mandate consumer education for vulnerable groups.

Ponpakin Phruttiwongwanit, Project Coordinator, Fair Finance Thailand, said: "Most of Thailand's protections for bank customers work on the technical side: face scans, app restrictions, and transaction limits. These matter, yet they cannot stop a scam in which the customer is tricked into approving the transfer themselves. Around 700 online scam cases are reported in Thailand every day; most victims never get back the money they lose. Banks and the Bank of Thailand must empower consumers to protect themselves."

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Pakistan

The three Pakistani banks assessed scored above average on financial inclusion. They also offer products for unbanked and underbanked customers, but women entrepreneurs are largely unaware of these. Regulation has improved, but weak implementation blunts it.

Recommendations for banks:

• Conduct structured and proactive community outreach through accessible channels tailored to customers with low digital literacy.

Recommendations for the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP):

• Adopt an impact-driven approach to target setting and monitoring.
• Introduce intermediate milestones and a response framework.

Asim Jaffry, Country Program Lead, Fair Finance Pakistan, said: "Financial-inclusion policies and banking products for women entrepreneurs have improved, but awareness of available products remains an immediate barrier. We urge Pakistani banks to undertake proactive, locally accessible, and gender-responsive outreach, while calling on State Bank of Pakistan to strengthen monitoring and evaluate measurable outcomes for women entrepreneurs."

Consumer Engagement and Accountability Mechanisms in Indonesia

Indonesian banks scored lowest of the four countries in consumer engagement and accountability with few channels for raising sustainability concerns. Consumers cannot see what their deposits finance and civil society struggles to hold banks accountable on due diligence.

Recommendations for banks:

• Establish non-judicial and responsive ESG grievance mechanisms.
• Disclose portfolio impacts and engage consumers proactively on sustainability topics.
• Strengthen ESG due diligence.

Recommendations for Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK) / Financial Services Authority:

• Broaden mandatory disclosure and require third-party assurance of sustainability reports.
• Require client consent to disclosure in high-risk lending.
• Champion a mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence law covering finance.
• Penalize misleading sustainability claims; train judiciary and regulators.

Victoria Fanggidae, Executive Director, The PRAKARSA, said: "Most Indonesian banks still lack any real grievance channel for harms linked to their financing. We urge Indonesian banks to establish accessible, transparent ESG grievance mechanisms and disclose the projects they finance. We call on OJK to mandate independent assurance of sustainability reporting and enforce real consequences when a bank's lending practices contradict its published ESG commitments."

Access the case studies and recommendations: bit.ly/4ql4HVK

Media contacts:  

Kyle Cruz
Influencing and Campaigning Manager
Fair Finance Asia
kylejuliene.cruz@oxfam.org

About Fair Finance Asia

FFA is a regional network of Asian civil society organizations working to ensure that financial institutions' funding decisions respect the social and environmental well-being of the communities where they operate. Civil society coalitions from 10 countries are part of the FFA network: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Learn more: fairfinanceasia.org

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Fair Finance Asia calls on Asian Banks and Regulators to Protect and Empower Consumers as Partners in Sustainability