Our program Thursday morning, June 24, featured get-to-know-you introductions from some of our new members: Joseph Diehl, Paul Meehan, John Pierce, and Roger Wylie. The addition of these four new members has substantially raised the average IQ of the Club.
Joe Diehl has credentials as both an accountant and a lawyer. He is the Principal at Joe Diehl & Co. LLC with over 50 years of experience in association management and accounting/finance. His most recent role was serving as Deputy Director of the National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC) in Washington, DC. Joe has provided contract and consulting services to Nationwide Insurance, Northwest Indian Housing Association, AHMA of Washington and the Affordable Rural Housing Council (among others) over the past 25+ years. Joe graduated from Northern Illinois University with a BS in Accountancy and from the John Marshall Law School in 1979 with a Juris Doctor degree. He passed the CPA Examination in 1974 and the Illinois Bar Examination in 1979. A highly regarded speaker on a number of topics, he will address our club on Networking in the weeks to come.
Paul Meehan is a scientist with wide experience in biotechnology. He has a B.S. from the University of California at Irvine and received his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in Physiology and Biophysics. He did Post Doctoral research at Tufts University in the lab of Klaus Miczek, Ph.D. studying the effects of anti-hypertensive drugs and benzodiazepines on aggression induced changes in heart rate and blood pressure in rats. He is now self-employed as a biotechnology consultant/professional. He has worked at Northwestern Health Sciences University, Zymogenetics, Artemisia BioMedical, UCLA and USC. He is yet another former Scoutmaster in the Club!
John Pierce is a Partner in Perkins Coie’s Energy and Environment and Resources and Business Practice Groups where he focuses on the representation of project sponsors and developers, financing parties and, occasionally, utilities in North America, Latin America, throughout Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia. John leads the firm’s carbon credit and hydrogen practices. He is the Co-Chair of the Perkins Coie CleanTech Practice; was co-founder and Chair of the Algae Biomass Organization; founder of the Pacific Northwest CleanTech Open; serves on the Board of the University of Washington School of Law’s Global Business Institute; and advises US Departments of State and Commerce on certain Southeast Asian and North Asian countries.
Roger Wylie is Managing Partner of the national law firm of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. He serves as the Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 80 in Magnolia. As a registered patent attorney, he helps his clients protect and monetize their intellectual property assets. He manages several large groups of patent prosecutors to aid clients in obtaining patents for their technologies. He manages a team for patent prosecution and related services to an American international electronic commerce company and the world’s largest online retailer. Clients startups and include a well-known American outdoor recreation company specializing in camping gear and an American multinational software corporation that develops software. He has worked in a large number of industries, including software, medical devices, automotive, aircraft parts, consumer goods, complex machinery and sporting goods.
