ClearstoneIP, a leading provider of FTO workflow solutions, announced the appointment of Stuart Recher as their Chief Commercial Officer on Tuesday 9 September, 2025. Recher, a veteran in the IP industry with over 25 years of experience, joins ClearstoneIP from MaxVal, where he held the position of President of Services and successfully led a significant restructuring and growth of its global service business. Prior to this, Recher has held senior leadership roles at well-known companies such as Clarivate, CPA Global, Thomson Reuters, and Nstein Technologies (now a division of Open Text).
According to ClearstoneIP, Recher’s appointment is a strategic move to support the company’s hyper-growth phase with corporate and law firm clients in North America and Europe. In his new role, Recher will be responsible for developing the company’s go-to-market capabilities to meet the increasing demand for their innovative IP workflow and AI solutions.
ClearstoneIP’s FTO solutions have been highly valued by corporations and intellectual property law firms for their critical freedom-to-operate initiatives. The company’s goal is to help their clients accelerate their time-to-market and increase their confidence in IP risk assessments for their industry-leading products.
In a statement, ClearstoneIP CEO Gabe Sukman said, “We are excited to have someone of Stuart’s caliber join our team. With his extensive experience and knowledge of the IP market, Stuart will play a crucial role in our next phase of growth and help us enhance our strategic initiatives to take our technology solutions and client experience to the next level.”
Expressing his enthusiasm for his new role, Recher said, “I have been following ClearstoneIP and their mission for a few years now, and I have been impressed by their development of a new and unique product category in the IP market. I am excited to be a part of the company at a time when the demand for IP security, confidence, and collaboration is on the rise among inventors, attorneys, and outside counsel.”
Founded by patent attorneys, ClearstoneIP aims to set the industry standard for digital FTO management. Their FTO platform offers efficient workflows that facilitate collaboration between key stakeholders in the patent clearance process, including in-house counsel, R&D teams, business units, and outside counsel. This helps accelerate innovation while managing and mitigating patent infringement risks and building an institutional patent knowledge base. The company’s founders have a collective 40 years of experience in the patent industry, and their technology is continuously improved based on feedback from thousands of global users. ClearstoneIP prides itself on being the only purpose-built, end-to-end patent clearance management platform in the market.
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