James E. Malackowski

James E. Malackowski brings four decades of leadership at the intersection of intellectual property, finance, and technology. As Chairman and Founding Director of AIQA Global, he leads the development of the AIQ™ Score — the first proprietary methodology for rating enterprise AI governance quality.

Mr. Malackowski serves concurrently as Chief Intellectual Property Officer (CIPO) of JS Held LLC, a 2,000-person global consulting firm, where he shares direct responsibility for the firm’s artificial intelligence strategy — providing hands-on operational experience in AI governance, deployment, and risk management that directly informs AIQA’s scoring methodology.

He is the co-founder of Ocean Tomo, a J.S. Held company, where he created the Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index (NYSE: OTPAT) — the first major equity index to select companies based on intellectual property value — and the patented OTR™ PatentRatings system (U.S. Patent No. 6,556,992). Over its first decade, the OT300 outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 1,600 basis points.

Mr. Malackowski was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame in 2022 (alongside Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer) and received the LES Gold Medal in 2025 — the highest honor in the global business of intellectual property. He is only the seventh individual in history to hold both distinctions. He is Past President of both the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) and LES USA & Canada.

Mr. Malackowski is a participant in the inaugural 2025 cohort of Georgetown University’s Master’s in AI Management program — the first accredited graduate degree of its kind. He holds a BBA, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Notre Dame with majors in Accountancy and Philosophy, and is a Registered CPA (Illinois), CFF, ABV, and Certified Licensing Professional.

He serves as a director and advisor to several AI-centric companies including Positive Growth Ventures LLC, encant.ai, and Berg Health LLC, and has served as a testifying expert in leading AI/ML copyright cases including Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence and New York Times v. Microsoft/OpenAI.