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what we do
C-Level Advice
C-Level Advice
C-Level Advice
Helping CEOs, C-Level management and boards
IP Consulting
C-Level Advice
C-Level Advice
Helping companies evaluate, manage and grow their IP portfolios
Investing
Motorsport Sponsorship
Motorsport Sponsorship
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Investing in early stage technology businesses
Motorsport Sponsorship
Motorsport Sponsorship
Motorsport Sponsorship
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Partnering companies with sports properties
C-Level advice
CEOs need help too!
Steve's experience over the last 20+ years as a CEO and GM of global technology businesses provide a foundation for C-level executives to leverage. Whether a company has just raised outside capital, is looking at strategic options or is trying to refocus the business, Steve has the expertise to help. His broad range of expertise and experiences are an asset to many management teams.
Strategics, private equity and venture capital firms have brought Steve into their companies to provide them with strategic advice and to serve as a sounding board to the executive management team.
Steve has worked with a wide range of technology companies in IoT, industrial, consumer electronics, automotive, pharmaceuticals, medical device, AI and wireless companies.
IP Consulting
Intellectual Property is critically important to many companies today, yet very often IP tends to be not well understood by executive management. Steve works closely with a company’s management and IP counsel, bringing his business acumen and IP expertise to provide a unique and valuable perspective.
Some of the areas Steve helps facilitate include:
- License negotiations, including university, licensors and licensees
- Patent strategy development and review
- Internal IP process development
- IP Due Diligence
- IP Litigation support
- Ideation/Patent harvesting facilitation
- Budget review and prioritization
“Steve was highly impactful in building a strategic patent portfolio for TearClear and closing an important license deal. His value went beyond anything we had imagined,” Rick Heinick, Founder and Executive Chairman, TearClear
investing
Often Steve advises startups and sometimes he even invests.
Motorsport sponsorship
Steve has been involved with Formula E, the world's most sustainable motorsport, since its inception. He led Qualcomm's strategic sponsorship for 6 years and led Qualcomm's investment into the entity. Steve has been a Formula E board member for over 8 years. He has many years of relationships with teams, drivers, series and other ecosystem players.
Steve provides insight on how to strategically align a company's business objectives with its sponsorship and activations.
About Steve
Steve Pazol is a successful entrepreneur, CEO and GM with 20+ year track record of successful leadership in both large organizations and startups. He has led multiple global technology businesses in emerging markets, including M2M and Internet of Things (IoT), software and wireless, resulting in five exits. Steve is on the boards of Formula E Racing (London, England), Awenyx (San Jose, CA) and Ajira AI (Chicago, IL).
Steve is currently providing strategic advisory services to startups and large enterprises on intellectual property (patent and non-patent IP), IoT, wireless and enterprise software. He is also working with a variety of early-stage ventures and management teams on fundraising, growth and exit strategies.
Steve most recently led the global business for Qualcomm Halo (wireless electric vehicle charging) which was successfully sold to WiTricity in 2019. He also led the WiPower (consumer electronics and wearables) and ETA Semiconductor businesses. Before this, he was an EIR at Qualcomm, where he looked after a variety of internal startups.
Steve is a recognized thought leader and industry expert, including being named one of 10 original M2M Pioneers by M2M Magazine and he is a Chicago Innovation Award winner. He has authored over 50 articles, was on the Advisory Board of M2M Magazine and Technical Editor of Unicenter Advisor Magazine. He has been a featured speaker at many conferences and universities on a variety of topics.
Steve founded nPhase, an M2M / IoT platform company, which he sold to Qualcomm. After several years, Steve spun the business back out of Qualcomm and led nPhase, a Verizon Wireless / Qualcomm joint venture, which became Verizon’s M2M service delivery platform. Verizon subsequently acquired the business and Steve returned to Qualcomm as an EIR.
Prior to this, Steve founded Professional Consulting Services (PCS) in Chicago and co-founded Mehta & Pazol Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. in Pune, India. He also co-founded and led Skychain LLC, a joint venture between nPhase and Air Products and Chemicals.
Steve is active with several civic organizations and currently serves on the board of the San Diego chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association of California and is a member of the Strategic Roundtable for the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation.
Steve has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Steve likes to fish, be on the water, travel to beautiful locations, motorsport events, any University of Michigan sporting event, and fish. And he loves his family of course.