Robert M. Siminski
Special Counsel

Mr. Siminski's legal practice concentrates on obtaining, enforcing and licensing patents, trademarks and copyrights primarily in the chemical and mechanical arts. In addition, he provides litigation support, due diligence, intellectual property portfolio analyses, strategic counseling, valuation support services, and opinions.

Among the hundreds of patents he has obtained for his clients, Mr. Siminski has drafted and prosecuted chemical patents relating to adhesives, coatings, conductive materials, films, foams, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals and small molecules. On the mechanical side, he has obtained patents relating to dental and medical devices, athletic equipment, fastening systems, games and toys, tools, microvalves, and oil and natural gas exploration and extraction and sealing technologies..

Michelle Lynn
Director of New Business Development

Michelle Lynn has been with Lassen Scientific, Inc. for over a decade, she serves in the capacity of Director of New Business Development. her duties include client proposal creation, practice marketing and strategic partnership development. Additionally Michelle serves as a client concierge providing project reports, updates and managing all logistics related to client satisfaction..

David Cocke
Associate

Mr. Cocke brings over eight years direct experience in the general management of entrepreneurial companies, coupled with an outstanding background in corporate finance.
For the last seven years, David has been Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of NuPak Medical, Ltd., an ISO 13488-certified contract manufacturing company based in San Antonio, TX. At NuPak, he is responsible for all aspects of management, including sales, finance and operations. David was the company's first employee and built the company from a Greenfield to ISO certification in seven months.

In addition to his employment at NuPak Medical, David has an active consulting practice working with start up to middle market companies in the areas of finance and operations.

Prior to his involvement with NuPak, Mr. Cocke was Senior Director, Finance and Operations for NuTech, A KCI Company. NuTech was a technology incubator for its parent company, Kinetic Concepts, a $300 million public company. At NuTech, David was responsible for all of the business's operational aspects (including customer service, accounting, manufacturing, service and distribution) and had significant involvement in the formulation and execution of the company's sales and marketing strategy. While at NuTech, he was responsible for dramatically improving the company's financial performance more than doubling the company's Return on Assets (to triple digits), and increasing free cash flow by $8.9 million even as sales increased $9.6 million (a sales increase of 131%).

Before entering management, Mr. Cocke was employed by GE Capital in its Corporate Finance Group (financing middle market companies) and Salomon Brothers Inc in its Dallas Investment Banking office (providing financial advisory services as well as debt and equity underwriting).

Stephen Orsatti
Product Innovation and Design Guru

Stephen has worked with Lassen Scientific, Inc. in the design and development of several world-class innovations ranging from award-winning industrial safety products to technologies for ophthalmology, orthopedics and general medicine. He is an expert industrial designer and brand builder. From product concept through market commercialization, Stephen provides design and project management on all projects.

Leading edge design comes second nature for Stephen. There are no barriers and there are no limitations to what something can be, look like, or function as. Often in today's market a product begins with engineering, which is then made pretty. Stephen turns this concept on its head. Excellent form can always be made to function the way you want...this is not often the case with trying to make function look good.

This way of thinking was proven when he designed an entire line of kitchen tools from scratch. Intensely ergonomic, sculpturally elegant, and incredibly functional. And, again..when he designed not one, but three different personal cooling systems. One system for hardhats, and two for welding helmets...a task that the major safety companies had been working on for years. He did it in months. To him there is always a new way of looking at something. And, if it is impossible and has never been done before...that's just another way of saying roll up your sleeves so we can get this done!

Stephen is an award winning product designer and industrial stylist, his world class designs range from industrial products to kitchen tools. He has several pending US patents and he has worked in the development of of products for some of the countries largest companies. Self taught in 3d graphics from their very inception in the 80's Stephen Orsatti designs each product in the virtual world before it ever becomes a reality. To him every design should be able to stand on its own as an organic sculpture.  He lives in MInnesota with his wife of twenty seven years and his ten children

Nicholas Webb
Senior Partner and CEO

Nicholas J. Webb is a successful inventor, entrepreneur, author and management consultant in the field of innovation and customer relationship management. He has served as the CEO of several successful technology firms including Myocure, Inc. a pioneer in refractive ophthalmic surgery. He is the founder of Nupak Medical, LLC a medical product-manufacturing firm. He has also served as a CEO with several other technology- related companies. He is a successful inventor having been awarded over 35 patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office. His technologies range from one of the world’s smallest medical implant to industrial and computer technologies.

He currently serves as the CEO of Lassen Innovation, providing strategic innovation and management consulting services, and has attained certification as a Certified Management Consultant. His client list represents some of the best companies and research organizations in the world.

He is a prolific book author; his most recent books include The Innovation Playbook–a revolution in business excellence and The Digital Media Innovation Playbook–creating a transformative customer experience (Wiley). Nicholas is a frequent speaker and workshop leader at vertical industry conferences as well as innovation, licensing and technology forums around the world. Nick combines his own personal experience of "having been there" with a proven strategy for increasing profits and market share through a combination of leading-edge innovation methods and general business best practices. He lives in Northern California with his wife of twenty years and his four children.