This is Your Team

The inventRight team is dedicated to guiding you through every step of the invention process during your program.
We have over two decades helping inventors patent, design and license their inventions.
We believe your success is our success!

The Founders

Stephen Key

Stephen Key

Co-Founder | Glenbrook, NV

Stephen Key is an award-winning inventor, renowned intellectual property strategist, lifelong entrepreneur, author, speaker, and columnist. The dozens of concepts he has brought to market have retailed in Walmart, 7-E…

Andrew Krauss

Andrew Krauss

Co-Founder | Henderson, NV

Andrew Krauss is an expert on licensing products ideas for passive income. He has been helping creative people bring their concepts to market with less risk and more success for nearly 20 years as a cofounder of inventRight.

The Award Winning Team

Terry O'Mara

Terry O'Mara

Manager of Coaching Services | Albuquerque, NM

Terry O’Mara has always been creative. He remembers drawing on the slats of his older brother’s bunk bed when he was just a kid. (Later on, he got the go-ahead to ‘customize’ the walls o…

Paul Sorenson

Paul Sorenson

Senior Coach & Chief Negotiator | Smithfield, UT

Paul Sorenson has been an entrepreneur practically his whole life, especially since graduating college. Owning and running multiple businesses in different industries, i…

Scott Putnam

Scott Putnam

Coach, Dubuque, IA

Scott Putnam is an adventurous fun-loving family man who brings with him a wide range of experience as a student of business marketing, store manager, world traveler, expat, collegiate educator, a…

Ryan Diez

Ryan Diez

Coach | Santa Clarita, CA

Ryan Diez is a lifelong inventor whose hand-held dog-washing device, The Woof Washer 360, went viral in 2015 after he found a licensee. After years of stops and starts, he’s eager to share his hard-w…

Brad Kons

Brad Kons

Coach | Cincinnati, OH

Brad learned how products are sold at retail living in the South working for large companies and leaned into his creative side by teaching himself how to design websites. He is married to…

Courtney Laschkewitsch

Courtney Laschkewitsch

Coach | Santa Cruz, CA

Courtney is an award-winning entrepreneur and successful inventor who licensed four product ideas to a company that specializes in outfitting…

Keanu Alfaro

Keanu Alfaro

Coach | San Diego, CA

After majoring in sociology as an undergraduate and studying business for his master’s degree, Keanu worked for his local county government doing bu…

Martin Lombardini

Martin Lombardini

Coach | Nashville, TN

When Martin realizes there is a better way of doing things, he does not hesitate to take action. After moving to Tennessee in 2003 to work for a…

Clark Bish

Clark Bish

Coach | Eastampton, NJ

Clark Bish is a serial entrepreneur and designer who turned his love of creativity into a thriving business. In addition to inventing and pitching new ideas…

Carl Jones

Carl Jones

Coach | Melbourne, Australia

Carl Jones is an award-winning industrial designer, entrepreneur, and open innovation university lecturer whose focus is on sustainability.

Sylvia Pomazak

Sylvia Pomazak

Advisor | Chicago, IL

Between working fulltime, maintaining her own private practice, and raising her two young sons in the suburbs of Chicago, Sylvia found time to license her first idea earlie…

Dana Knowles

Dana Knowles

Advisor | Washington, DC

Hitting bottom was the best gift I could have received. Homeless to radiating a message of reinventing ourselves “No Matter What!”. Inspirational Speaker and Product Developer.
Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

LinkedIn Licensing Expert / SmartPitch Creator | Bainbridge Island - Pacific Northwest

I’m a lifelong entrepreneur with diverse experience working in product development, project management, digital m…

Madeleine Key

Madeleine Key

Marketing | South Lake Tahoe, CA

Madeleine began writing about open innovation, product development, and entrepreneurship for inventRight way back in 2007. Articles she has authored have ap… 

James Shehan

James Shehan

Manager of Computer and Information Systems, Graphic/Web Design & Accounting | Denair, CA

James Shehan has been an indispensable member of the inventRight tea…

Heather Christensen

Heather Christensen

Customer Service Manager | Salt Lake City, UT

Heather Christensen had zero intentions of looking for additional employment, but when she heard inventRight was…

Desiree Duym

Desiree Duym

Customer Service Manager | Stateline, NV

Desiree is an adventurer whose career in hospitality has largely revolved around taking care of other people.

Carrie Walton

Carrie Walton

Customer Service Manager | Denver, CO

After working for leading healthcare companies as well as startups in sales and marketing roles for more than 20 years…

Diana Aliser

Diana Aliser

Social Media Marketing Assistant | Cebu City, Philippines

Diana Aliser has quickly become an important member of inventRight’s marketing team. In addition to designing our newsletters…
Leslie Cayabyab

Leslie Cayabyab

Design Studio Manager | Quezon City, Philippines

Leslie has been creating ideas ever since he can remember. As a child, he loved playing with Tonka trucks, action figures, robots, and remote-controlled cars.
Akira Christensen

Akira Christensen

Social Media Manager | Salt Lake City, UT

She began editing and uploading her first YouTube videos at just 10 years old. She has always loved to draw and play with arts and crafts. In high school…