Changhae Park is Senior Vice President and Chief IP officer at NXP Semiconductors and is based in Austin, Texas. In this role he leads all aspects of IP matters including IP creation, IP counseling and IP monetization. Before this, he was the head of IP monetization at NXP and Chief IP officer at Freescale Semiconductor. Dr. Park started as a research engineer in the semiconductor industry and has an extensive technical background in semiconductor design, manufacturing and applications. He held several technical and managerial positions in Cypress semiconductor and Motorola’s semiconductor products sector before completing his MBA program and becoming the head of an R&D organization at Motorola. His career in IP monetization started while leading the R&D organization and was initially focused on technology transfer and licensing. This eventually led to an expanded role of managing all IP licensing activities at Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector and later Freescale Semiconductor. He has led numerous IP monetization campaigns and generated close to $2B from a number of deals with major corporations in the semiconductor and electronics industries around the world. Dr. Park is originally from South Korea.

Dr. Park received his BS in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Ajou University in Suwon, South Korea, his Master’s and PhD degrees in EE from the University of Texas at Austin, and his MBA from Arizona State University.