ClearstoneIP Appoints Stuart Recher as Chief Commercial Officer

IP industry veteran to drive next phase of growth for market-leading FTO workflow provider

PALO ALTO, Calif. and ZURICH, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearstoneIP today announced the appointment of Stuart Recher as Chief Commercial Officer. A trusted IP industry software and services leader with over 25 years of experience, Stuart joins ClearstoneIP most recently from MaxVal, where he was President of Services, leading a significant restructuring and growth of its global service business. Stuart has previously held senior leadership positions at Clarivate, CPA Global, Thomson Reuters, and Nstein Technologies (now a division of Open Text).

Stuart's appointment is a strategic addition to ClearstoneIP's leadership team during a period of hyper-growth with both corporate and law firm clients across North America and Europe. Stuart will be responsible for building out go-to-market capabilities to better serve the growing demand for ClearstoneIP's innovative IP workflow and AI solutions.

ClearstoneIP continues to deliver high value solutions for critical freedom-to-operate (FTO) initiatives, which corporations and intellectual property law firms depend on daily for their product strategies. Stuart's appointment builds upon ClearstoneIP's customer first software development and delivery foundations so innovators can accelerate time-to-market and increase confidence in IP risk assessments for their industry-leading products.

"We are thrilled to attract an industry veteran of Stuart's caliber, with his deep experience and understanding of the intricacies of the IP market," said Gabe Sukman, ClearstoneIP CEO. "Stuart's leadership will be instrumental as we enter our next phase of growth, allowing us to accelerate our strategic initiatives and take our market-leading technology solutions and client experience to the next level."

"For a few years now, I've admired Gabe and the mission of ClearstoneIP and enjoyed watching them develop a new and unique product category in the IP market. Some of the world's most innovative organizations are leveraging ClearstoneIP's leading FTO solutions, and I'm excited to join at a time where demand for IP security, confidence and collaboration between inventors, attorneys and outside counsel is rocketing," said Recher.

About ClearstoneIP

ClearstoneIP was founded by patent attorneys to pioneer the industry standard for digital freedom-to-operate (FTO) management. The Clearstone FTO platform provides efficient workflows focused on critical collaboration between and among key stakeholders in the patent clearance process including in-house counsel, R&D, business units, and outside counsel. The result is accelerated innovation with effectively managed and mitigated patent infringement risk, all while building an institutional patent knowledge base. The founders' collective 40 years of patent industry experience, together with ongoing feedback from thousands of global users, enable FTO management best practices in the market's only purpose-built, end-to-end patent clearance management platform.

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