Lawrence Collins
Founder & PresidentLarry Collins is the Founder and President at LitAgility. He has over twenty-five years’ experience in litigation consulting and has appeared as an expert witness in both State and Federal Court. He brings experience and expertise in the areas of intellectual property litigation, presentation strategy, interactive media, and engineering. This experience has been gained by working on over 500 patent cases.
Mr. Collins’ has a unique set of experiences which led him to start LitAgility. Working with so many patent litigation teams he saw firsthand what parts of the process created the most challenges for every team. LitAgility was formed to help solve these challenges.
Before entering the litigation consulting market, Collins worked as an engineer for eight years. He studied Spatial Information Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the University of Maine.
Dr. Srinivas Achanta
Managing PartnerSrin Achanta is the Chief Operating Officer of LitAgility. In this role he assists Larry in various activities related to product development, marketing and administration. Srin has over 25 years of business management experience in large and small organizations. He started his career in Engineering at The Procter & Gamble Company and transitioned to a business consultant role at the management consulting firm Booz & Company where he specialized in the development of go-to-market strategies for leading companies in consumer products and industrials spaces for over five years.
He then became part of Honeywell Corporation CEO's Strategy & Business Development team, followed by a role as the marketing lead for India and Southeast Asia at UOP, a Honeywell company. Srin also founded SciTech Patent Art, one of India’s leading patent and technology intelligence firms. Srin holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from University of Michigan.
James Gillespie
Vice PresidentIn his role as Vice President of Client Services at LitAgility, Jim Gillespie focuses on product development, client service and marketing. He has over 25 years' experience in marketing, sales management, and product development. While serving in sales management roles at The New York Times Co., he initiated and launched several successful lifestyle products.
Gillespie served as an adviser with North Shore InnoVentures, a startup incubator and was responsible for strategy, marketing, and business development efforts for a member company that was later acquired. While in this role, he developed and implemented the GTM strategy. This included securing sales in target verticals and approval as a recognized energy efficiency measure with utility companies. As part of several regional and national CleanTech accelerator program teams, Gillespie has been a regional finalist or member of the winning team. His creativity, thoughtful approach and relentless curiosity benefit our clients and the LitAgility team.
Dr. Nenad (Neno) Medvidović
AdvisoryAn internationally recognized leader in software engineering, Medvidović is Director Emeritus of the Center for Systems and Software Engineering and is a Professor and Chair in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California (USC). He is also a Professor in the Informatics Program at USC and a faculty associate of the Institute for Software Research (ISR) at the University of California, Irvine.
Medvidović is the Founding Director of the SoftArch Laboratory at USC. He has served as Director of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering (2009-2013), as well as Vice-Chair for Tenure Affairs (2021-2022) and Associate Chair for Ph.D. Affairs in USC’s CS Department (2011-2015). Medvidović’s research interests are in architecture-based software development. His work focuses on event-based architectures; architecture recovery, maintenance, and evolution; middleware facilities for architectural implementation; domain-specific architectures; architectural styles and patterns; and architectures of distributed, decentralized, mobile, resource constrained, and embedded systems.
Amongst his many academic distinctions, in 2020, Medvidović received the Most Influential Paper Award at the 15th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2020) for a 2007 paper titled “An architectural style for solving computationally intensive problems on large networks.” The paper tackled a long-standing problem: keeping data confidential while performing computations on large, distributed systems, such as cloud computing networks.