Mark T. Reyland
Executive Director, The United Inventors Association of America
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Since childhood, Mr. Reyland has successfully traversed the turbulent waters of entrepreneurship, inventing, and product development many times.
He began his professional career and several creative ventures while serving in the United States Air Force and then with the National Security Agency (NSA) as both a Senior Intelligence Analyst and Executive in charge of classified technology innovation programs. Mr. Reyland has applied many of those unique skills to his work as a successful inventor.
Mr. Reyland’s long list of accomplishments include Director of Classified Technology Development for a fortune 500 company, National Security Agency liaison to the Korean government, and a successful technology and product inventor with many products in the marketplace for both industry and consumer product retail.
Founding nine companies since high school, Mr. Reyland is currently the Founder and CEO of Obvious Ideas LLC, a Cincinnati based product development company specializing in providing fully developed products to traditional retail and the direct response industry.
Additionally, Mr. Reyland serves the inventor community as Executive Director and Board Member of The United Inventors Association of America. In addition to being the country’s oldest and largest non-profit inventor organization, the UIA is a team of well respected professional inventors, executives, and product suppliers providing education and guidance to its members through the many inventor outreach programs under Mr. Reyland’s leadership.
He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and The National Cryptologic University in Washington D.C.
Mr. Reyland’s technology inventions and retail products have been widely published in magazines and trade journals around the world. You can often hear him as a guest lecturer at universities, media programs, and inventor forums, or read his daily UIA Inventor blog,