Speakers

The panel will discuss various considerations as the high market demand for wearable health technology grows including: how consumer electronics companies are tapping into wearable health technology to drive revenues and profit, the challenges of addressing security and privacy concerns, the emergence of new business models and subsidization by insurance companies as well as employer/employee benefits.

Pallavi Shah is a Senior Vice President in Houlihan Lokey's Tech+IP Advisory practice. As an industry-recognized thought leader and spokesperson in technology, innovation, and intellectual property, Ms. Shah has focused on helping Fortune 100 companies and their partners monetize their innovations, bring their technologies to market, and protect their innovations through the filing of well over 100 patents. Ms. Shah has served as a Board Observer of venture-funded Silicon Valley startups, and has chaired various standards committees, including MPEG4-Java. She is also the inventor of many patents and has authored and presented multiple technical and business papers.

Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in M&A capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation, and strategic consulting. Part of the Financial Advisory Services, the Tech+IP Advisory practice adds "smart value", creative ideas, and workable solutions for our clients. We provide strategic transaction, valuation, M&A advisory, IP-backed capital formation and restructuring, and analytic services focused on Tech+IP for hundreds of innovative companies and market leaders globally. Our clients run the gamut from global 100 corporations to emerging and midsize companies throughout North America, Europe, and East Asia.