2026 Election
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The 2026 PTOS Election will take place from Jan 13-15, 2026
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Slate of Candidates for the 2026 Election - Asterisk denotes incumbent - Click names for more information
| Executive Officers |
| President |
Dave Lotter* |
| Vice President |
Shelby Turner* |
| Secretary |
Ryan Clark* |
| Administrator |
Anna Pagonakis* |
| Treasurer |
Matthew Troutman* |
| Business Unit Representatives |
| TC 1600 (2 positions) |
Rayna Rodriguez*, Selam Berhane* |
| TC 1700 (2 positions) |
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| TC 2100 (2 positions) |
Kevin Lu* |
| TC 2400 (2 positions) |
William Kim*, Angela Nguyen* |
| TC 2600 (2 positions) |
Kwin Xie* |
| TC 2800 (2 positions) |
Andrea Lindgren Baltzell* |
| TC 2900 (2 positions) |
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| TC 3600 (2 positions) |
Jeffrey O'Brien*, Catherine Loikith*, Anand Loharikar |
| TC 3700 (2 positions) |
Keith Raymond*, Jessica Arble* |
| Patents, Non-TC / PTAB (2 positions) (OPLA, OPQA, Petitions, Reexam, OPT, OITP, Classification, etc.) |
Fred Guillermety*, Luther Behringer* |
| Trademarks / TTAB (2 positions) |
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Offices of EEOD/PIA/CAO/CCO/CFO/CIO/GC/US/PE/All Others (2 positions)
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| Regional Representatives |
| Northeast Region (1 position) (ME VT NH MA RI CT NY NJ PA MD DE DC VA WV NC SC GA FL PR) |
Robert Hodge* |
| Midwest Region (1 position) (MN IA MO WI IL MI IN KY OH) |
William Monticello* |
| Rocky Mountain Region (1 position) (ID UT MT WY CO ND SD NE KS) |
Allison Bourke* |
| Southwest Region (1 position) (NM TX OK AR LA MS TN AL) |
Sara Brown |
| Western Region (1 position) (WA OR CA NV AZ AK HI) |
Andrew Polay*, Joshua Schwartz |
| At Large Representatives (10 positions available) |
| Ryan Clark |
| Neel Patel |
| Jeffrey O'Brien |
| Pinping Sun* |
| Christian Miner |
| Anne Kozak* |
| Ryan Donlon* |
| Kwin Xie |
| Catherine Loikith |
| Robert Hodge |
| Alex Devito |
| Ryan Barrett |
| Phillip Bonzell* |
| Kang Hu* |
| Jennifer Smith |
| Anand Loharikar |
| Joshua Schwartz* |
| Angela Nguyen |
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The 2026 PTOS Election will take place from Jan 13-15, 2026
