Bruce Villard is an Intellectual Property (IP) Manager for Northrop Grumman Corporation. In this role, he chairs a committee of engineers, scientists, and other subject matter experts that reviews employee invention disclosures. Bruce also develops and delivers IP education to programs, sites, and organizations within the Mission Systems sector while collaboratively working with his team members on the development and execution of global commercialization strategies. Outside of Northrop Grumman, Bruce is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law where he teaches Licensing and Technology Transfer Law.
Prior to working at Northrop Grumman, Bruce graduated from Syracuse University with a B.S. in Computer Science and worked for the IBM Corporation in various roles mostly working with high-transaction rate computer software. While at IBM, Bruce worked at night to get his MBA from Marist College and J.D. from the University of Maryland Carey School of Law.
