John Cronin - Is an award winning Intellectual Property (IP) expert with more than 100 patents to his name. Prior to founding ipCapital Group, John was the concept creator and finance provider for IP.com as well as an award winning 'Top Inventor' at IBM where his patents expertise played a key part in the setting up of IBM's patent factory, a strategy which contributed to IBM becoming the no. 1 US patent registrant in less than ten years.