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 | Cedar Point, NC.
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Carl Jones
Coach | Melbourne, Australia
Carl Jones is an award-winning industrial designer, entrepreneur, and open innovation university lecturer whose focus is on sustainability.
Sonya Ramsey
Coach | Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada
Inventing and entrepreneurship have always been Sonya’s passion. Taking time off from her professional career as an ICU…
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…
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
Advisor | Washington, DC
Jeff Houston
Director of Marketing and Business Dev. | Dallas, TX
With a bachelors of science from the University of Oregon specializing in chemistry and physics as well as a minor in business administrat…
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
Customer Service Manager | Stateline, NV
Desiree is an adventurer whose career in hospitality has largely revolved around taking care of other people.
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…
Leslie Cayabyab
Design Studio Manager | Quezon City, Philippines
Akira Christensen
Social Media Manager | Salt Lake City, UT
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…