This is Your Team
The Founders
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
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
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
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
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…
April Mitchell
Coach | Oceanside, CA
April Mitchell is a successful entrepreneur who is passionate about natural health and wellness to help others feel their best. A lifelong learner, she was a teacher before focusing on raising her four…
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…
Matthew Palmer
Coach | Denver, CO
Matthew has been working with his hands his entire life. As a child, he remembers driving his parents nuts over the holidays because he was driven by curiosity and couldn’t wait to tear apart his presen…
Kirk Hyust
Coach | Canton, OH
Kirk has been a building contractor for more than 25 years. He has always been an inventor, but it wasn’t until 2014 that he decided to dedicate himself to bringing his ideas for new products to life…
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 his high school sweetheart…
Les Williams
Coach | Norcross, GA
Les Williams licensed a food placemat that makes it easier for babies to feed themselves to First Years, a baby products company in business for more than 70 years, with his wife Arin, his inventing partner…
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…
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 hiring, she leapt at the opportunity…
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…
Dana Knowles
Advisor | Washington, DC
Chris Van Hyning
Customer Service Assistant Manager | Calimesa, CA
Christine Champenois is an entrepreneur at heart and a community builder through and through. In her small Southern California town, she…
Keanu Alfaro
Customer Service / Marketing | 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…
Talia Afoa
Customer Service Manager | Wilmington, NC
Talia is passionate about big ideas that improve our personal lives, companies, and communities. Before joining the inventRight team, she built brands wi…
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…
Jeff Houston
Director of Business Development | Austin, TX
With a bachelors of science from the University of Oregon specializing in chemistry and physics as well as a minor in business administrat…
Lynnsie Whitaker
Senior Manager, Design Studio Program | San Diego, CA
Before she began heading up inventRight Design Studio, Lynnsie Whitaker was a fulltime utility and design patent illustrator for…
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
Manager of Computer and Information Systems, Graphic/Web Design & Accounting | Denair, CA
James Shehan has been an indispensable member of the inventRight tea…
David Solheim
Website/SEO Manager | Rigby, ID
David started working on technology when he was eight years old and built his first computer. Ever since that amazing moment, he has been building websites since he was…
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