Manny W. Schecter is Chief Patent Counsel and Associate General Counsel at IBM.  Mr. Schecter leads IBM’s worldwide intellectual property law organization on patent matters and advises on intellectual property strategy and policy.

Mr. Schecter serves on the board of directors of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), the IPO Education Foundation (where he serves as the president), Allied Security Trust, the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding, and he served on the board of directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association from 2013-2016.