Alexander I. Poltorak is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of General Patent Corporation International (GPCI), an intellectual property (IP) management company focusing on intellectual property licensing and enforcement.

Prior to establishing GPC in 1989, Dr. Poltorak was the president of Poltorak Associates Inc., an IP management consulting and patent licensing firm, which he formed in 1987. Before that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Rapitech Systems, Inc., a publicly traded computer company that he co-founded in 1983. Prior to Rapitech, Dr. Poltorak served as Assistant Professor of Biomathematics at the Neurology Department of Cornell University Medical College, where he conducted research in image processing and computer tomography. He also served as Assistant Professor of Physics at Touro College. Dr. Poltorak has published several papers in scientific journals.

Alexander Poltorak emigrated from the former U.S.S.R. in 1982, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Physics at the age of 22 for a significant breakthrough in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. As a political dissident, he was later stripped of his degrees for anticommunist activities.

Dr. Poltorak has co-authored two books, Essentials of Intellectual Property (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002) and Essentials of Licensing Intellectual Property (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004). He also authored and co-authored several articles including: “Are Patents Bad for the Economy?” (New York Business Focus, August 2002), “Introducing Litigation Risk Analysis” (Managing Intellectual Property, May 2001); “Corporate Officers and Directors Can Be Liable for Mismanaging Intellectual Property” (Patent Strategy & Management, May and June 2000); “Grain, Grain, Go Away” (Intellectual Property Worldwide, February, 2000); and “Patent Enforcement: To Sue or Not to Sue?” (Inventors’ Digest, November/December 2000).

Alexander Poltorak was profiled in a New York Times feature article (Teresa Riordan, “Trying to Cash in on Patents,” June 10, 2002) Dr. Poltorak has also been interviewed by CNN, Tokyo TV, InstitutionalInvestor.com, WallStreetReporter.com, EE Times and Bloomberg Radio, and serves on the advisory board of Patent Strategy & Management.

He is a member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), the New York Academy of Science, and the American Physical Society. He was a U.S. co-chairman for the Subcommittee on Information Exchange of the US-USSR Trade and Economic Counsel.