About
A technology commercialization firm in Austin, Texas.
We help organizations bring technology in, place technology out, and decide what a technology is worth.
The firm
Experience on both sides of the deal
Hammersmith Services, Inc. was founded in Texas in 2014. We work for companies, universities, research organizations and investors in the United States and abroad.
Our work joins three disciplines that are usually separate: finding technology, placing technology, and advising on its value. Because we work on both sides, we know what buyers look for and what owners need to hear.
We are deliberately small. A senior principal leads every engagement, and we bring in specialists and attorneys when a project needs them.
Principal
Omar Hakim, P.E.
Principal
Omar Hakim is a Professor of Practice at Texas A&M University, where he teaches technology commercialization and helped build the university's interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Minor. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas in industrial and systems engineering and in software engineering.
He has worked on both sides of technology transfer for more than twenty years. At Accenture he managed a portfolio of more than 500 patents and led due diligence for the firm's internal venture fund. He later co-founded a patent brokerage that screened more than 62,000 patents, ran the Research Valley Innovation Center, a technology incubator in Texas, and served as Vice President of Client Strategy at the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich, supporting more than 130 early-stage technology companies.
He co-founded the Aggie Angel Network and was its full-time Executive Director for three years, during which the network screened more than 900 companies. According to the Angel Capital Association, it was one of the most active angel networks in the United States. He has also founded companies whose technology and patents were later licensed or sold. He is a named inventor on more than 40 issued US patents, and his article “Alternative Strategies for Addressing IP Infringement” appeared in Research-Technology Management in 2021.
- Licensed Professional Engineer, Texas: industrial and systems engineering; software engineering
- Professor of Practice, Texas A&M University
- Named inventor on more than 40 issued US patents
- M.S., Science and Technology Commercialization, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
- B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of New Mexico
- 2011 IEDC Excellence in Economic Development Award, for the International Gateway program
Our name and mark
A hammersmith shapes raw material into something useful.
The name comes from the Old English for a smith's forge, where raw metal was hammered into tools. We do the same with technology: we take what has been invented and shape it into something an organization can use.
Our mark is an H made of two halves, one for each party. The two halves of the crossbar reach across and lock together, as the two sides of a technology transfer do.
Tell us what you need, or what you want to place.
A short note is enough to start. Please do not send confidential details until we have agreed how to protect them.