Vin Loccisano

Vin Loccisano is the Chief Executive Officer at Halo Energy. Prior to this, they worked as the Chief Patent Counsel at Ogin, Inc. (formerly FloDesign Wind Turbine) from March 2011 to April 2017. In this role, they were responsible for identifying critical intellectual property in an early-stage startup and rapid development of a supporting IP portfolio to enable $260M in venture funded Series B, C and D fundraising.

Loccisano implemented an internal IP process to identify, document and protect enabling technology on an international level. Vin also provided education and training to a rapidly growing international organization on the value of IP and the essential nature in protecting it accordingly. In addition, they fostered engineering technology development by identifying enabling third party technology and leading engineering teams to internally implement these solutions while avoiding IP infringement claims.

Loccisano embedded the IP function within the engineering department to provide early stage freedom to operate analysis of engineering concepts. Vin also provided broad non-IP support for various financing; export control restrictions; ITAR and EAR compliance; legal and environmental compliance; cost and risk sharing; terms and conditions of sale and government negotiations.

Vin Loccisano has a Master of Business Administration from Rotterdam Business School, a JD from Suffolk University Law School, and a BS in ME from Lehigh University.

Dave Forbes - Chief Operating Offier, Charlie Karustis - Chief Development Officer report to Vin Loccisano.