Professional Team

Rob Sloman, Founder & CEO of Inteum

In 1992, Rob founded Inteum Company which is the pioneer in offering technology transfer management software to the technology transfer community. Prior to founding Inteum, Rob was President of Washington Research Foundation, a technology transfer non-profit in Seattle, Washington from 1987 to 1992.

Nita Milbourn, Director, Training and Customer Support

Nita joined the Inteum team in November 1998 and directs the on site and regional training services. Prior to joining Inteum she worked at the University of South Florida Research Foundation, Division of Patents and Licensing for 6 years. Her extensive background in technology transfer enables her to deliver exceptional end user training supported with well developed curricula, tailored to each sites level of expertise.

email: nitam@inteum.com
phone: 330-664-0842

Hope Hartman, Director of Business Development

Hope joined the Inteum team in May 2008 with four years experience in technology transfer. Most recently she worked for UW TechTransfer in Business Development and Communications. While working at UWTT, she helped build the LaunchPad Program whose primary goal is to catalyze ventures based on university innovations.

email: hopeh@inteum.com
phone: 206-696-8012

Rosie Price, Account Manager

Rosie joined the Inteum team in September 2010 with over a decade of experience as an intellectual property professional. Prior to joining Inteum, Rosie worked for Seed Intellectual Property Law Group and Amazon.com. As a paralegal, she worked as part of a team assisting domestic and international clients achieve their strategic business objectives through their intellectual property portfolios.

email: rosiep@inteum.com
phone: 425-814-1370

Tim Hollobon, Lead Developer

Tim joined the Inteum team in 2002. Tim has over 20 years programming and manufacturing process design experience. His knowledge and skill in scripting languages, Visual C++ and ATL/COM have been a great addition to Inteum’s software development team.

Ken Zhu, Software Developer

Ken joined the Inteum team in October 2007. Ken has a Masters Degree in Computer Systems and over 8 years of software development experience in various companies including Microsoft and GE Healthcare. His knowledge and skill in .NET programming is a great addition to Inteum’s software development team.

Ben Hodson, Software Developer

Ben joined the Inteum team in 2008. Ben Hodson has founded several companies over the last 8 years. He was co-founder and CTO of Venafi, Inc. (2000 -2005) a security software company focused on encryption technologies for enterprises including 8 fortune 100 customers. More recently, he co-founded Auction Trust Network, Inc. (2006) a software plug-in for eBay and other ecommerce sites to facilitate trust and social commerce. He now is the founder of Repeatsys, a software consulting and hosting company that specializes in web-based applications. Ben holds degrees in both Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Justin Adair, Report Writer

Justin joined the Inteum team in November 2005 with over 8 years of Crystal Reports experience. Justin began his career in Relational Database Reporting by providing Technical Support for the original creator of Crystal Reports, Seagate Software. Before joining Inteum he developed, maintained and supported hundreds of reports for companies in the Pacific Northwest and around the world.

Ruth Gallion, Office Manager

Ruth joined the Inteum Team in April 2004. Prior to coming on board with Inteum Ruth worked at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, PathoGenesis in Seattle before they were bought by Chiron and the Washington Research Foundation. She uses her 20+ years of office, event management, and stage management experience with organizational skills to keep everyone on track.

Alec Sloman, Web Designer & Technical Support

Alec Sloman joined the Inteum team in 2009. He brings skills as a designer and analyst to various documentation and web projects. Alec was primarily responsible for this new website and also creating Inteum Central, Inteum’s Customer Support Portal. You will also recognize his voice from the growing library of tutorial videos on said site.

Dave Waddell, European Representative

David is an information systems professional with over 17 years experience in the design, development and implementation of business information systems. He spent 8 years with University of Edinburgh, UK, responsible for research, IP management and technology transfer systems. In August 2009 he founded Inprisys Ltd. to develop and market the complementary Analytics for Inteum C/S business intelligence toolset and now extends Inteum C/S services and support to licensee sites around Europe and beyond.

Steve Lott, European Account Manager

Steve joined Inteum in September of 2011 after using Inteum C/S® for several years while working at Health Enterprise East, an NHS innovation hub in the UK. He has a solid foundation in technology transfer and information systems. Steve is based near Cambridge, UK takes on the responsible for the Inteum European customer base and development of new business in the region. Steve will work closely with our European partner, Inprisys Limited.

email: stevel@inteum.com
phone: +44 1223 911180