Trudi Bordi, Vice President of Licensing, HDMI

Trudi Bordi is the Vice President of Licensing at HDMI Licensing, Inc., where she drives the global licensing strategy and overseeing revenue operations. She focuses on maximizing revenue through optimized licensing and robust intellectual property (IP) protection. Trudi leads the company’s strategic direction in global audits, compliance, and IP enforcement, collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners to safeguard IP rights across diverse markets.

In her role, Trudi advises the CEO, Board, Founders, and the HDMI Forum on risk management and strategic opportunities, ensuring the organization navigates emerging challenges while capitalizing on IP growth. She plays a key role in driving organizational transformation, aligning initiatives with the company’s long-term goals.

Under Trudi’s leadership, her team has quadrupled in size, contributing to over 75% revenue growth over the past decade. With a 92% compliance reporting rate among adopters, her team has successfully tackled trademark challenges and infringement issues in key markets like China and Taiwan while continually expanding the company’s IP portfolio globally. These accomplishments highlight Trudi’s commitment to excellence, integrity, and innovation in licensing, reinforcing HDMI Licensing’s leadership in the industry.

Braden Weatherhead, Managing Director, KPMG IP Compliance  LinkedIn

Braden is a Managing Director and KPMG’s commercial line of business leader for contract compliance. He has over sixteen years of experience in providing royalty audit services to multinational organizations in a variety of industries including High Technology, Semiconductors, Consumer Products, Diagnostics, and Pharmaceuticals.  Braden has deep experience in helping to establish and execute global contract compliance programs combining elements of data analytics, royalty monitoring, audit targeting and remediation. He has led the development of cloud-based data aggregation, monitoring and executive dashboard tool to help better identify licensee compliance issues which range from erroneous reporting, low royalty payment and fraud. He has significant experience successfully managing relationships between potentially contentious third parties in an audit environment. Braden is also well versed in performing advanced data analytics and has developed analytical tools to implement proactive monitoring solutions leveraging third party data.  All together, these programs have resulted in the identification of over $300 million in overpaid rebates & discounts while strengthening contract lifecycle management and strategy.  Braden is a Certified Public Accountant and member of the AICPA.

Michael Zachary, Partner, Bunsow De Mory LLP LinkedIn 

Michael is a trusted legal strategist for IP enforcement and defense, with deep litigation experience across licensing disputes and royalty underpayment cases. As a partner at Bunsow De Mory, Michael focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and licensing, and regularly represents clients in patent infringement, trade secret, trademark and other intellectual property litigation cases. He counsels clients on a variety of technology and intellectual property agreements, including design and development, manufacturing and supply, product evaluation, and patent and trademark license agreements. He has represented large, mid-size, and start-up companies based in the United States, Japan and Europe, including Volkswagen, Bradium, Skype, Amazon, Wacom, PRISM Pharma and Boston Scientific. In 2016 and 2017, he was recognized as a California “IP Star” by Managing Intellectual Property. He is also a cellist who performs with two local orchestras and with area chamber groups.

Michael Pierantozzi, Moderator and Board Member, LES-SVC (IAM Strategy 300)  LinkedIn

Based in Silicon Valley, Michael is a technology and intellectual property (Tech/IP) entrepreneur, strategist and transaction expert. Andiamo Associates is a management consulting firm that specializes in Tech/IP business catalyzing and monetizing matters. Previously, Michael was responsible for strategic business development, including sales, acquisitions, and licensing for the IP Licensing group at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and served as Director of KPMG's IP Consulting practice. Previously, Michael held executive leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) including HPE, Intellectual Ventures (IV), IPotential, and an IP transaction data services startup that he co-founded. Since 2009, Michael has been recognized by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine in their IAM 300 rankings as one of the “World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists”. He is a frequent speaker at Tech/IP industry events in the US, Europe, and Asia, and has delivered IP management seminars at Stanford University.