Kelly T. Hickel

Mr. Hickel was the Co-founder and President of Expert Witness Consulting Services, LLC(EWCS). He was a Technology, Bankruptcy, Restructuring, Marketing and Consulting Executive with 4 decades of experience in Sales and Marketing including experience in Valuation, IP, Operations, Bankruptcy and out-of-court Restructuring.

Mr. Hickel had a track record of outstanding performance in managing, restructuring and selling companies and their assets including the Intellectual Property Portfolio. He was a consultant since 1990 concentrating on sales, marketing, software development, program management, project management and business management with sales and was a high energy, hard charging individual and a creative team leader and advisor with an ability to identify missions and needs, lead teams to accept responsibilities and successfully handle strategies and tactics to accomplish strong program or project results. He had a way of satisfying challenging situations and showing the participants the validity of his conclusions based on analyses and experience of teaching and leading groups of people throughout his career. He was comfortable in adversarial courtroom proceedings.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Extensive knowledge of Marketing from 40 plus years of creating, managing, restructuring, funding, acquiring and selling companies with an emphasis on the technology, pharma and energy industries and managing their sales and marketing organizations.

Specifically, he has

• Worked with the Board, consisting of the then top AI Scientists in the US. Licensed their first Distributed Networked Computer Operating System and proprietary hardware design and licensed and/or sold the IP and property to IBM for their educational software, to Europe’s then-largest computer manufacturer and Japan’s largest printing press provider.
• Acquired industry’s first commercial HTML system, developed Aerospace specific applications and sold the IP to a public company for $13 million within two years of acquisition of the IP.
• Managed operational turnaround of Fortune 500 Computer Disk Drive Company with $600 million of revenue when the prior management defrauded the market and shareholders. Perfected patent portfolio including the industry’s first 1” high hard disk drive. Sold company and its IP portfolio through Chapter 11 in a $900 million return for investors, lenders and shareholders.
• Advised BOD of a failing Hard Disk Drive startup on the value of their IP portfolio, leading them to an $18 million sale and avoiding the no-asset bankruptcy they had expected, thereby returning 100% of the investment to investors.