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Alexander Fishkin 


Alexander Fishkin
Email: afishkin2008@law.northwestern.edu

Alex Fishkin is a 3rd year JD-MBA student at Northwestern University, focusing on the law and business of technological innovation and intellectual property. Throughout his career, Alex has advised dozens of entrepreneurs, small businesses, non-profit organizations, and Fortune 100 companies on technology and intellectual property matters. At Northwestern, Alex worked with the Technology Transfer Office, helping the university to commercialize its research in sciences and engineering. Prior to law/business school, Alex worked as a Technology Specialist at Fish & Richardson, one of the leading intellectual property law firms. At Fish & Richardson, Alex helped individual inventors, small businesses, and large high-tech companies to protect their intellectual property. Before entering the field of intellectual property, Alex held various engineering positions at a number of companies, including Teradyne, Motorola, Pittway Corporation (now Honeywell International), and Pepsi Americas. Alex received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Stanford University in 2004.