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
Sylvia Pomazak
Sales Director | 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
Director at inventRight Gateway | Washington, DC
Terry O'Mara
Senior Project Manager at inventRight Gateway | 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
Director of Project Management at inventRight Gateway | 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…
Martin Lombardini
Outreach Manager at inventRight Gateway | 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…
Brad Kons
Outreach Manager at inventRight Gateway | 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…
Carrie Walton
Project Manager at inventRight Gateway | Denver, CO
After working for leading healthcare companies as well as startups in sales and marketing roles for more than 20 years…
Clark Bish
Project Manager at inventRight Gateway | 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…
Chad Brislawn
Outreach Manager at inventRight Gateway | Muscatine, Iowa
Driven by curiosity and a lifelong passion for problem-solving, Chad Brislawn enjoys creating and licensing products that make everyday tasks more…
Claudia Brislawn
Outreach Manager at inventRight Gateway | Muscatine, Iowa
Claudia Brislawn is a dedicated professional, entrepreneur, and mother of two with a career spanning multiple industries – from property management…
inventRight Coaches
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…
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…
inventRight Staff
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
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…
Faith Cockrell
Customer Service Manager | Cincinnati, OH
Faith is a lifelong inventor, entrepreneur, and sports fan who was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Cammie Knight
Customer Service Manager | Carson, CA
Akira Christensen
Social Media Manager | Salt Lake City, UT
Past inventRight Coaches
Karen Steinbock
Coach | Bend, OR
After graduating from nursing school on a Navy scholarship, Karen worked primarily in emergency rooms at naval hospitals in Southern California as well as a bit overseas.