Earl Nied is the founder of Veracity IP Consulting LLC, which was established in 2023 to provide strategic guidance on intellectual property and standards development. Veracity IP assists clients in navigating and participating in standards development organizations (SDOs), forming new consortia, and addressing the business and legal implications of intellectual property rights policies in collaborative technology environments. Before founding Veracity IP, Earl held senior leadership roles at Intel Corporation over a career spanning more than 40 years. He served as US director of IP policy and global director for standards-related intellectual property rights, where he led engineering and legal teams and contributed to Intel’s policy and regulatory strategies on a global scale. Earl is a respected leader in the standards and intellectual property community. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Standards Council of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). From 2012 to 2015, he chaired ANSI’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee (IPRPC). His influence extends across numerous global and regional SDOs and industry consortia, where he played a pivotal role in shaping intellectual property policies. His contributions include working with ANSI, AVS (China), CESI (China), DVB, ECMA International, ETSI, JEDEC, IEEE, InfiniBand Trade Association, ITU/ISO/IEC, PCI-SIG, USB Implementers Forum, and others.