4Q Catalyst provides business consulting and advisory services, including patent portfolio and competitive landscape analysis. Customized services are available for clients who wish to monitor emerging competitive barriers and develop opportunities in selected areas of patenting interest.
Mary J. Cronin is a social entrepreneur, professor, and business advisor. She works at the intersection of emerging technologies and entrepreneurial innovation to support the success of founders and social impact organizations. Mary provides advisory services and strategic consulting, with a focus on age tech, longevity, and climate tech solutions.
Dr. Cronin is a Research Professor at Boston College, Carroll School of Management in the Department of Business Analytics. She has a Ph.D. from Brown University and teaches Entrepreneurship and Business Planning for New Ventures at Boston College. Mary is co-inventor on two US patents.
Her latest book, Starting Up Smarter: Why Founders Over 50 Build Better Companies, analyzes the impact of older entrepreneurs. Her prior books include the international best seller Doing Business on the Internet; Smart Products, Smarter Services; The Internet Strategy Handbook; Unchained Value; and Managing for Social Impact: Innovations in Responsible Enterprise.
Scott B. Guthery is a patent analyst, IP strategy consultant, and a career-long inventor with over 60 granted patents. He provides IP advisory services to In-Q-Tel and to corporate clients, with a particular focus on patent data analysis, including computer code analysis.
Dr. Guthery has a Ph.D. in probability and statistics from Michigan State University. He is the founder of Docent Press, a Boston–based publisher of books in the history of mathematics and technology. He has authored a number of books, including Smart Card Developer’s Kit, Mobile Application Development, Developing MMS Applications; A Motif of Mathematics, and Practical Purposes.
Prior to working with 4Q Catalyst, Scott served as a senior technology leader, a system and security architect, and inventor for startups such as Mobile-Mind and global corporations such as HID Global, Microsoft, Schlumberger, and Bell Laboratories