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Michelle L. Baker

Michelle L. Baker is entrepreneur with technical and business expertise in the software industry. Innovative software design has been the basis of Ms. Baker’s career. She has patents for her inventions in the US, Europe, and Canada. She has founded a number of companies to commercialize her inventions and has recently sold an important patent in the area of fault detection.

In 2000 she founded Umbanet Inc. a software technology company with a new e-mail technology designed to greatly increase the security, volume, speed and efficiency of Internet business transactions while simultaneously reducing costs to vendors. In 2002 Umbanet Inc. won a national Advanced Technology Program (ATP) competition and a grant of $2 million to advance the state of the art in e-commerce security using electronic mail. In evaluating Umbanet’s technology for this award, experts at the Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) determined that Umbanet is a significant new technology with a potential for large broad-based economic benefits for the US economy.

In addition to her work with Umbanet, she is also the President of Intellinet, Inc., which she founded in 1992. Intellinet is a research and design firm that has developed and patented new types of software technologies to be licensed to other firms to commercialize. Ms. Baker was involved in the early development of the Internet and designed a series of software technologies that are integral to the way people use the Internet today. Ms. Baker’s firm Picture Patents LLC was formed in 2006 to license and enforce patents on some of the technology that Ms Baker invented in the 1990s.

Early in her career, Ms. Baker worked at IBM in the Multimedia Systems Analysis Group (1990-1993) and with the Artificial Intelligence Group at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. (1986-88). During the mid-90’s, She served as a consultant for the British Council for Social and Economic Research (1994-1995) and as the Director of Technology for the Collegiate School in New York City (1995-1996). Ms Baker has been a speaker at many technical conferences and events, including the International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Learning, IJCAI, and Uncertainty in AI. She has served on the Executive Board of the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA).