Foresight Valuation Group is an intellectual property (IP) valuation, strategy, and economic consulting firm. We help our clients understand the value of their intellectual property by thinking strategically about how to manage and extract value from their innovation.
In today′s competitive marketplace, smart companies – from Fortune 500 firms to early stage startups – rely on innovation to keep them one step ahead of the game. They need to effectively leverage the knowledge, technologies, trade secrets, patents, trademarks, and copyrights that are critical to their success.
Our principals and affiliates have been involved in analyzing and commercializing cutting edge innovation for some of the world′s most prominent technology companies. As IP experts based in Silicon Valley, we help organizations across a range of industries manage and grow their IP as a strategic business asset.
What Makes Us Different?
Innovation
Drive innovation through smart management of intellectual property.
Growth
Implement vision and exceed goals in today′s competitive markets.
Trust
Rely on expert advisory based on state of the art methodologies and data driven analysis.
Global
Leverage Silicon Valley insights and approaches to connect technologies and markets across the world.
Meet The Team
Efrat Kasznik
President & Founder
As Foresight’s President, Efrat is in charge of the firm’s business development, thought leadership and professional services activities. She brings over 25 years of diversified experience as an IP valuation and strategy expert, having assisted companies of all sizes and across a range of industries with valuing, commercializing and monetizing their innovation. Efrat has been a Lecturer on IP management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2011. She has been listed on the IAM 300 list of Leading IP Strategists every year since 2013. She is a member of the LES USA-Canada Board of Trustees, as well as a member of the LES Silicon Valley Chapter Board. Prior to starting Foresight, Efrat was a practice leader with two leading IP and litigation consulting firms, where she established the IP Valuation and Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) practices. Efrat has also been a co-founder and CFO at several Silicon Valley Startups, as well as an advisor and mentor to hundreds of startups in the US, Europe and Israel. She holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and a BA in Accounting & Economics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel). In the early mornings you will often find her hiking the Stanford Dish, where she finds inspiration for great ideas.
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Lynn Dudinsky
Director of Business Development
Lynn Dudinsky, is a graduate of the Santa Clara Law School, where he
was awarded the High Tech Law
Certificate with a specialization in intellectual property. As
Foresight’s Vice President, Lynn
provides our clients with IP strategy and analysis expertise. Prior
to joining Foresight, Mr.
Dudinsky worked for the Patent Department of Samsung Research
America in Silicon Valley, where he
performed research and evaluated inventions originating from the
Samsung scientists and supported
provisional, non-provisional and foreign filings. While at Samsung,
Lynn was exposed cutting edge
technology, many of which was in the wearable, software and IoT
space. Mr. Dudinsky also drafted
patent applications and interacted with the USPTO while working for
a patent prosecution firm during
his time at Santa Clara School of Law. Mr. Dudinsky brings a rich
scientific background, holding a
B.S. in Biology and having also attended graduate school at Texas A&M
prior to starting law
school, and having worked at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston as
a microbiologist. When not at
work, Lynn can be found exploring the trails and beaches of the Bay
Area with his Chocolate Lab
Bailey.
Ron Kasznik, Ph.D.
Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Management, Stanford
Graduate School of Business
Director of the Mergers and Acquisitions Executive Program
Lynn Dudinsky
Vice President
Lynn Dudinsky, is a graduate of the Santa Clara Law School, where he
was awarded the High Tech Law
Certificate with a specialization in intellectual property. As
Foresight’s Vice President, Lynn
provides our clients with IP strategy and analysis expertise. Prior
to joining Foresight, Mr.
Dudinsky worked for the Patent Department of Samsung Research
America in Silicon Valley, where he
performed research and evaluated inventions originating from the
Samsung scientists and supported
provisional, non-provisional and foreign filings. While at Samsung,
Lynn was exposed cutting edge
technology, many of which was in the wearable, software and IoT
space. Mr. Dudinsky also drafted
patent applications and interacted with the USPTO while working for
a patent prosecution firm during
his time at Santa Clara School of Law. Mr. Dudinsky brings a rich
scientific background, holding a
B.S. in Biology and having also attended graduate school at Texas A&M
prior to starting law
school, and having worked at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston as
a microbiologist. When not at
work, Lynn can be found exploring the trails and beaches of the Bay
Area with his Chocolate Lab
Bailey.
Luca Escoffier
CEO and Co-Founder, Innoventually
Luca graduated in law from the University of Parma (Italy), he then
earned a Master of Laws in
intellectual property law in 2003 (WIPO). After several years spent
in law firms and in an Italian
nano-biotech company, he moved to Seattle in 2008 to work as a
Visiting Lecturer at the University
of Washington where he has also earned in 2010 a Certificate in
Business Administration from the
Foster Business School. Luca is a Fellow of the Stanford-Vienna
Transatlantic Technology Law Forum,
Invited Researcher at Waseda University, and a Singularity
University alumnus (GSP’10). Luca is the
co-founder of Impact HUB Trieste, and works as CEO, mentor, and
advisor for several companies around
the world.
Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Careers
Foresight is growing. We are looking for talented professionals to expand
our team. To learn more about
Foresight, we encourage you to review our Experience and Services pages.
Current Openings
Business AnalystAssociate
How to Apply
Submit your resume via email to info@foresightvaluation.com,
and we will contact you if your credentials match our openings. No calls
please.