Board Member - As Senior Counsel for IBM Corporation based in New York, Ellen Cox supported the Mainframe and IBM Research divisions, and helped form the legal team for the IBM Watson group. Her areas of expertise include world-wide medical device regulations and strategic planning, medical research strategy and regulatory compliance, healthcare compliance planning and strategy, intellectual property development and licensing, privacy and HIPAA, Federal government contracting, M&A, government relations and lobbying activities in the healthcare arena, and business and strategic planning.