Matthew McCarthy, creator and founder of StoveGuard, started his business in a one-car garage on a mission to find an easier way to keep messy stovetops clean and free of grease and grime. Disappointed with available products—those awful little self-cut squares, those incredibly thin, cheap three-part liners—he knew there had to be a better way. After much research and development, the perfect solution was launched and found its way into hundreds of thousands of kitchens across the country: custom fit StoveGuard stovetop protectors.

Matthew Schonauer is a seasoned intellectual property attorney who focuses on comprehensive business client counseling, providing business leaders with insight and advice needed to make critical decisions on value creation, protection, risk mitigation, and complex technical issues. His practice involves procurement, transactional, and litigation matters involving intellectual property and technology at all stages of client growth. As a registered patent attorney with a background in mechanical engineering, mathematics, and software, he serves clients with global and domestic portfolios, providing strategic advisory services and legal counseling related to risk identification and mitigation, portfolio management operations, due diligence, global enforcement strategy, and IP asset protection.