Bio:
Name: John Boruvka
Title: Vice President
Company: Iron Mountain
Address: 148 Cook Street
City: Billerica, MA 01821
Phone: 978-667-3601 / Fax: 978-667-3016
E-mail: John.Boruvka@IronMountain.com

About the Speaker:
John Boruvka, vice president for Iron Mountain's Intellectual Property Management business unit, has been involved in the technology escrow field for more than 19 years. His focus is helping companies create solutions relating to protecting intellectual property assets.

Before joining DSI Technology Escrow Services (later acquired by Iron Mountain in 1997), Mr. Boruvka was an account executive for SunGard Planning Solutions, a disaster recovery and contingency planning firm. There, he worked with Fortune 500 IT installations to implement software to manage and create disaster recovery plans.

Mr. Boruvka is considered an authority in the field of technology escrow and issues surrounding the role of a neutral third party in protecting intellectual property. He has participated in the development of strategies and review of thousands of technology escrow agreements for software, hardware and other proprietary information that established to protect against mergers, bankruptcies or other events that affect the ability of vendors to support their technology. A technology escrow agreement could mean the difference between losing mission-critical software that would cripple a company's operations and maintaining continued business success.

Additionally, escrow accounts can serve to protect software from patent, copyright or trade secret infringement. Courts have ruled that source code kept with a neutral third party helps meet the burden of proof for conception of an idea and serves as documentation of how a technology was developed. Mr. Boruvka has also written several articles on this topic and presented at numerous associations and prestigious law firms across the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. The following is a list of some of the organizations and law firms for which Mr. Boruvka has given presentations:

Organizations and Law Firms

• Culpepper Associates
• Computer Law Association
• American Chamber of Commerce - Argentina
• ICN Software Licensing Course
• ICN Technology Procurement Conference
• Independent Computer Consultants Association
• International Association of Contract and Commercial Managers (IACCM)
• ITechLaw - Stockholm 2005e
• Massachusetts Software and Internet Council
• New Jersey Technology Council
• Software Business Conference,
• Technology Association of Georgia
• Toronto Computer Law Bar Section
• Rogers & Wells
• Palmer & Dodge
• Foley Hoag & Elliot
• Hale & Dorr
• Ropes & Gray