Ted Theofrastous

Background

About Ted Theofrastous

Ted has extensive experience in the field of high technology development and commercialization, both as a business architect/manager and as a legal professional. Ted also counsels large and small non-profit institutions on a range of formation and compliance issues, often related to public-private partnerships and non-profit investment transactions.Prior to founding his business law firm and ThetaSquared, a strategic technology commercialization firm, Ted served as managing director and fund counsel for a small family venture fund, where he created and managed a portfolio of new and existing technology startup investments. Before the fund, Ted managed a diverse IP portfolio and launched startup companies for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation designed to commercialize products based on CCF intellectual property. Ted’s roles related to the firms he works with often include business structuring and operational planning, developing intellectual property strategies, negotiating financial investment and playing an active role as a manager and/or director.Before joining CCF, Ted practiced at the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P, where his primary practice focused on the nexus of investment capital and technology. At SSD, Ted counselled clients in diverse fields ranging from institutional technology transfer, to large-scale private equity fund formation to high technology venture formation. Ted’s technology business background consists of over twenty-five years working as a member of various executive management teams and boards of directors in the engineering, development and launch of new technology-based products and services in the fields of information and communications technologies, life sciences and advanced energy.Specialties: Intellectual Property StrategiesBusiness and Non-Profit LawTechnology Transfer and CommercializationTransaction Design and ExecutionNew Venture Creation & Capital FormationTechnology-Based Economic Development