John Koepke is a Partner with Red Chalk Group, LLC and has 10 years of experience serving senior executives and investment professionals address their most urgent and critical intellectual property related issues. Prior to founding Red Chalk Group, John’s intellectual property experience includes serving as Executive Vice President, Consulting Services for ipIQ (now The Patent Board), an intellectual property professional services firm, and launching Maxiam, LLC, the intellectual asset management consulting unit of the premier IP litigation firm, Howrey, LLP.

Previously, John spent 6 years building three early stage companies including IndustrialAmerica, (a venture of Internet Capital Group and MSC Industrial Direct), yourPharmacy.com, Inc., (a subsidiary of Express Scripts, Inc.) and Delray Farms, LLC, (a privately funded, retail start-up).

Prior to his early-stage experience, John spent 6 years as a consultant at McKinsey & Co., Inc. John received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Raymond Zenkich is a Partner with Red Chalk Group, LLC and has over 13 years of experience serving senior executives and investment professionals. Prior to founding Red Chalk Group, Raymond’s intellectual property experience included serving as Vice President (Partner) of Consulting Services for ipIQ (now The Patent Board), an intellectual property professional services firm, and filing his own US patent.

Previously, Raymond spent 5 years with McKinsey & Company where he served as strategic counselor to senior IT and business leaders within financial service industry in addressing a wide range of business and technology issues. Raymond’s early career began with Accenture (previously Andersen Consulting) where he led multiple full life-cycle application development projects for financial institutions across their back, middle, and front offices and risk, finance, and IT functions.

Raymond received a Masters in Science from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and International Studies from Northwestern University.