Allison Amadia is an independent consultant specializing in intellectual property law and technology licensing and counseling technology companies on matters pertaining to the procurement, manufacture, sale and licensing of technology. Ms. Amadia was most recently the General Counsel of a start-up company in the speech recognition voice services industry. Ms. Amadia has over ten years of industry experience serving as in-house counsel to numerous technology companies, including Novell, Hewlett Packard, and Seagate Technology.