at stanford in '88 followed in '91 and clerked for dorothy nelson on the ninth circuit and spent several years in kansas before joining in '94 where he stayed until 2000. he moved in 2000 and stanford in 2009. his is the only one each trying to make a brief that spilled over to the other side of the card. there is no question that he is the leading academic in the field of patents and he may also be the leading practitioner in the field as well. he is in his capacity to get things done. while publishing seven books and the two-volume treatise, he is a founding partner and maintains the healthy practice having argued countless cases in both district courts and courts of appeals and the list of awards that mark has earned over the years is in fact, too long to read. so what i wrote to is just think of every award that you might want some day to earn and mark has received it, a number of them on multiple occasions. then at the far end here is peter teal, also he needs no introduction. peter is the head of clarion capital which is the hedge fund and as i suspect most of you know, much, much