Roy Levien Managing Inventor, Ambient Architecture

Roy Levien is Principal and Manager of Keystone Advantage, LLC, and a Managing Inventor at Ambient Architecture, an invention company.

Mr. Levien has participated in numerous Intellectual Ventures' invention sessions covering a variety of topics ranging from human-technology interaction and information processing to medical device technology and health informatics.

During his 8 years at Microsoft, Mr. Levien worked as a program manager and product architect and had various other roles including research, multimedia products, management of product teams, advanced systems shell lead, responsibility for future Windows user architecture, and applications architecture. For his work on applications architecture and the foundations of ActiveX he received the Chairman's Award in 1990.

Since leaving Microsoft, Mr. Levien has worked as the principal and manager of Keystone Advantage, LLC, and has done freelance consulting on technology policy and complex systems through his company, Aldaron. Recent projects of Levien's include policy papers and case strategy for the remedies phase of the (US) Microsoft antitrust trial, and a book, The Keystone Advantage, on the dynamics of modern business. Mr. Levien's current activities focus on invention and invention management.

Mr. Levien received an M.A. in Biology from Yale University, an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, and has attended the doctoral programs at the Harvard Business School and Cornell's department of Neurobiology and Behavior. Mr. Levien is named as an inventor on six issued patents and on numerous patent applications.