Ron Docie is a native of Athens County, Ohio. After graduating from Ohio University, Ron went on to the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science and became a licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer.

One day in 1975 while driving a hearse, Docie nearly had an accident with a car that entered his blind spot. His passenger in the back was more than enough warning that he should be more careful, and Ron immediately conceived the idea for a blind spot mirror to help eliminate this deadly situation.

Ron spent the next three years commercializing his invention. He acquired a business partner, raised venture capital, and began manufacturing and marketing the Docie Wedge Blindspot Mirror. This product, as well as a full line of mirrors, eventually made its way to Kmart, Wal-Mart and automotive outlets throughout the world. They're still on store shelves today.

While developing his own invention, Ron handled marketing for entrepreneurs who had invention-based businesses, and he has since helped to develop business and marketing plans that led to the funding and advancement of several startups. This work led Ron to start Docie Marketing Services, a company dedicated to helping independent inventors.

Over the past 30+ years, Ron has personally negotiated more than 50 licenses and contracts for inventors and invention-based projects with companies ranging from small firms to General Motors. The scope of inventions has ranged from consumer to medical to industrial.

Ron was the program director for his local inventors' organization in Columbus, Ohio, and in the 1980s became a three-term president of the Ohio Inventors Association. During his tenure, he helped create the Ohio Inventors Resource Guide in conjunction with the State of Ohio Department of Development. He also created the Ohio Inventors Contest and was aggressively involved with championing the rights of independent inventors, including providing testimony to a congressional subcommittee in Washington, DC.

Ron has been a speaker and workshop leader at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Conference for Independent Inventors, U.S. Dept. of Energy, National Innovation Workshops, the Minnesota Inventors' Congress, and at local inventors' groups. He has also appeared on numerous radio talk shows and has spoken at Bar associations. His articles are regularly published in trade journals and online.

In his free time Ron is an avid outdoorsman, airplane and helicopter pilot, and organic gardener. He was a voting member at the caucus in Elkins, West Virginia, for the formation of the National Green Party in the United States and supports Green Peace, Amnesty International, Oxfam, sustainable energy societies and small farmers. Ron's latest project is to develop of a product line of hybrid solar cooking ovens.