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 the financial services industry, 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.

Nick Stabinsky is a Managing Director of Red Chalk Group's Transaction Services practice, and has deep experience serving intellectual property senior executives in numerous Fortune 1000 companies.  Previously, Nick led consulting services at a boutique intellectual property consulting firm focusing on competitive intelligence, portfolio evaluations, and M&A. Nick also held technical and business development positions with a systems engineering company. 

Nick has a Master of Laws in Intellectual Property from the MIPLC, a joint program with the George Washington University School of Law, University of Augsburg, and the Max-Planck Institute, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh.