Dr. William Fowlkes is currently the Treasurer of Region 1 and formerly served as Chair for the Rochester Section.

Dr. Fowlkes recently left IP.com, a software and services company that provides innovation solutions for the Intellectual Property and engineering communities.  Prior to that, Dr. Fowlkes worked for the Eastman Kodak Company as an Intellectual Property technology leader supporting Kodak’s patent-related activities from IP generation to value extraction.  He is an inventor on 32 U.S. patents.Dr. Fowlkes is a certified practitioner of TRIZ and a Six Sigma Black Belt. He is also an expert at Taguchi Methods for Robust Design, and has taught TRIZ, Robust Design, and applied statistics to hundreds of engineers and scientists; he is co-author of Engineering Methods for Robust Product Design, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.