Leonard Laub has a long history of meshing raw technology and unmet markets to yield worthy products, vital businesses, and versatile, practical professionals and managers.

His academic background is in physics and mathematics, and he maintains an active, deep, and current awareness of and involvement in technologies underlying product and market areas including consumer electronics, broadcast, mobile, and fiber telecommunications, optical and photographic systems, video and audio recording, storage, and presentation, microelectronics design and manufacture, computer and storage networks, and others of commercial significance. He has twenty patents.

However, based on his own experience with bringing new products out of labs (e.g., the technology behind CD, DVD, and Blu-ray; massive and highly flexible data storage systems; coding and data compression for audio and video; projection television; laser scanners) and building businesses from scratch to bring such products to market, his overall focus for the last 30 years has been and remains supporting technology-based companies worldwide of all sizes, maturities, and ambitions in understanding their markets and their own capabilities, and in planning and executing their products and business moves to minimize dependence on continuing investment and maximize opportunities for healthy growth and suitable licensing, franchising, partnering, mergers, or acquisitions.

His interaction with companies ranges from basic observe-and-report through support of planning, definition, delivery, and promotion of products and services to direct support of management and even overall management on an interim basis.

His clients include Agilent, Du Pont, Exxon, Fuji Photo Film, Fujitsu, Funai, General Electric, Google, IBM, ICI, MediaTek, Microsoft, 3M, Mitsubishi, NCR, NTT, Olympus, Philips, Ricoh, Samsung, Seagate, Sony, Thomson (now Technicolor), Toshiba, and Warner Bros, plus many young, growing, and evolving companies worldwide.

He supports investors, boards of directors, and private-sector (e.g., Barclays Bank, First Boston, Merrill Lynch, New York Life Insurance) and public-sector (e.g., NASA, Library of Congress, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Archives of Canada, Naval Air Development Center, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles) customers of technology-based companies in evaluating those companies, their products, their finances, and their prospects.

He also supports government agencies (e.g., US National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Science Council of Canada, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise) and universities (e.g., Georgia Tech) in setting directions for research funding and for nurturing and support of young and evolving companies.

As intellectual property has come increasingly to be recognized as a valuable asset, he has broadened and strengthened his support of the entire lifecycle of intellectual property, from determination of what’s worth patenting or otherwise protecting, through obtaining and licensing patents, to large-scale assembly and sale or licensing of (or acquisition of) patent portfolios and equally large-scale patent litigation. He works with companies and their legal counsel to find the most effective path to revenue. In this, he has assisted his clients in realizing hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.

He is based in New York State but travels extensively and supports clients nationwide and worldwide. He is President of Keryston Associates, Inc., where he can be reached by phone on +1 518 797 3500, via e-mail at leonard@keryston.com, and by appointment via Skype, Zoom, or Webex.