included leading the travel vertical, including operations and business development across all airports resulting in significant revenue, profit and growth.
We believe Mr. Saltzman’s extensive experience in the retail industry qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors.
Bruce T. Bernstein joined our Board of Directors in February 2016 and has served as the Chairman of our Board of Directors since February 2018. Mr. Bernstein has over thirty years of experience in the securities industry, primarily as senior portfolio manager for two alternative finance funds as well as in trading and structuring of arbitrage strategies. Mr. Bernstein served as President of Rockmore Capital, LLC from 2006 until February 2017, the manager of a direct investment and lending fund with peak assets under management of $140 million. Previously, he served as Co-President of Omicron Capital, LP, an investment firm based in New York, which he joined in 2001. Omicron Capital focused on direct investing and lending to public small cap companies and had peak assets under management of $260 million. Prior to joining Omicron Capital, Mr. Bernstein was with Fortis Investments Inc., where he was Senior Vice President in the bank’s Global Securities Arbitrage business unit, specializing in equity structured products and equity arbitrage and then President in charge of the bank’s proprietary investment business in the United States. Prior to Fortis, Mr. Bernstein was Director in the Equity Derivatives Group at Nomura Securities International specializing in cross-border tax arbitrage, domestic equity arbitrage and structured equity swaps. Mr. Bernstein started his career at Kidder Peabody, where he rose to the level of Assistant Treasurer. Mr. Bernstein also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Synaptogenix, Inc. (formerly Neurotrope Bioscience, Inc.), Mr. Bernstein is also a member of the board of Summit Digital Health, a laser-based blood glucose monitor distributor, based in New Jersey. Mr. Bernstein holds a B.B.A. from City University of New York (Baruch).
We believe Mr. Bernstein’s extensive experience in the securities industry qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors.
Robert Weinstein joined our Board of Directors in February 2020. Mr. Weinstein has extensive accounting and finance experience, spanning more than thirty years, as a public accountant, investment banker, healthcare private equity fund principal and chief financial officer. Since October 2013, Mr. Weinstein has been the Chief Financial Officer of Synaptogenix, Inc. (formerly Neurotrope Bioscience, Inc.), a publicly-traded biotechnology company. From September 2011 to September 2013, Mr. Weinstein was an independent consultant for several healthcare companies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. From March 2010 to August 2011, Mr. Weinstein was the Chief Financial Officer of Green Energy Management Services Holdings, Inc., a publicly-traded energy consulting company. From August 2007 to February 2010, Mr. Weinstein served as Chief Financial Officer of Xcorporeal, Inc., a publicly-traded, development-stage medical device company which was sold in March 2010 to Fresenius Medical USA, the largest provider of dialysis equipment and services worldwide. Mr. Weinstein received his MBA degree in finance and international business from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive), and received his B.S. in accounting from the State University of New York at Albany.
We believe Mr. Weinstein’s extensive financial expertise and healthcare experience qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors and as a member and the chairperson of the audit committee of our Board of Directors.
Donald E. Stout has been our director since July 2012, and was a director of Innovate/Protect, Inc. from November 2011 through the consummation of the merger with us. In a career spanning over forty years, Mr. Stout has been involved in virtually all facets of intellectual property law. Mr. Stout is a partner at a law firm Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP since 2015 and he had been a senior partner at the law firm of Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP from 1982 to 2015. As an attorney in private practice, Mr. Stout has focused on litigation, licensing and representation of clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) in diverse technological areas. From 1971 to 1972, Mr. Stout worked as a law clerk for two members of the USPTO Board of Appeals and, from 1968 to 1972. Mr. Stout was an assistant examiner at the USPTO, where he focused on patent applications covering radio and television technologies. Mr. Stout has written and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in diverse technologies, rendered opinions on patent infringement and validity, and has testified as an expert witness regarding obtaining and prosecuting patents. Mr. Stout is also the co-founder of NTP Inc., which licensed Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of the Blackberry handheld devices, for $612.5 million to settle a patent infringement action. Mr. Stout also previously served on the Board of Directors of Tessera Technologies, Inc. (TSRA). Mr. Stout is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Virginia, and is