WIPO

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Mr. Aleman, studied law at the Javeriana\r\nUniversity (J.D., 1991) where he also obtained a Corporate Law Certificate\r\n(L.L.M., 1996). He then obtained a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) in\r\nResearch at the Alcala University (Spain, 2006), and a Ph.D. in Law (2011, Cum\r\nLaude).

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Mr. Aleman\r\npracticed as an IP Attorney from 1991 to 1995. He was then appointed Head of\r\nthe Colombian Industrial Property Office, from 1995 to 1998, and was invited as\r\na Fellow Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany in\r\n1998. He joined WIPO in 1999 as Senior Program Officer, Office of Cooperation\r\nfor Development for Latin America and the Caribbean (from 1999 to 2006). He was\r\nthen appointed Deputy Director in the Division for Public Policy and\r\nDevelopment (from 2006 to 2009), Deputy Director of the Patent Law Division\r\n(from 2009 to 2013), and went on to be Director of the Patent Law Division. He\r\ncurrently holds the position of Assistant Director General, leading the IP and\r\nInnovation Ecosystems Sector (IES).

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Mr. Aleman is responsible for\r\nhelping Member States develop their IP and innovation ecosystems to drive\r\neconomic growth. He is also responsible for providing support for researchers,\r\ninnovators, and enterprises, including SMEs. Other key focus areas include IP\r\ncommercialization for business growth; emergence of IP as an asset class;\r\ndevelopment of advisory expertise on national IP strategies; economic analysis\r\non the role IP plays in promoting innovation and creativity; strengthening ADR\r\nand the services provided by the Arbitration and Mediation Center; and\r\nproviding technical assistance to the judiciary, as well as services related to\r\nthe legal databases.

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Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Gambia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Regional Coordinator for the African Group

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Director, IP for Business Division, IP and \r\nInnovation Ecosystems Sector, WIPO

Prior to joining WIPO, Guy was a\r\nLaw Professor at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,\r\nspecializing in Intellectual Property, Law & Technology and the Creative\r\nIndustries. Guy was a Fulbright Scholar, Residential Fellow at the Information\r\nSociety Project, Yale Law School; a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School,\r\nCity University Hong Kong, UBC and the Center for Transnational Legal Studies,\r\nGeorgetown University Law School and also an Erasmus Mundus, Visiting Scholar\r\nat the Center for Law, Society and Popular Culture, University of Westminster.

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Prior to his academic career,\r\nGuy clerked for Justice Zamir at the Israeli Supreme Court and has worked at\r\nthe Economic Department of the Israeli State Attorney's Office; The Israeli\r\nAntitrust Authority; the Bank of Israel and as a private legal counsel, in the\r\narea of Intellectual Property, including counselling to technology transfer\r\noffices, startups, technology and media companies.

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President, Industrial Property Office, Slovakia\r\n

Mr. Matúš Medvec began his mandate as President of the\r\nIndustrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic (IPO SR) on\r\nJune 18, 2020.\r\n

Prior to his appointment as President of the IPO SR, he served\r\nin the National Bank of Slovakia, negotiating the European and international legal\r\nstandards, coordinating and managing work teams at national and international level.\r\nBetween 2009 and 2014, Matúš Medvec held different positions within the Bank for\r\nInternational Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, the European Parliament - Committee\r\non Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), Ministry of Education, Science, Research\r\nand Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Law Firm in Bratislava.

\r\nMatúš Medvec is a graduate of the Comenius University in Bratislava, master’s degree\r\nat the Faculty of Law. He also studied at the Université Sorbonne Paris Cite, the\r\ninternational financial and tax law and the University of Staffordshire, the MBA\r\nqualification in the public sector management and star-ups. He is fluent in English and\r\nFrench.

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Managing Director, Bigen Global\r\nLimited, South Africa\r\n

Dr. McLean Sibanda, Managing Director of Bigen Global Limited,\r\nand Founder / Chief Executive Officer of Megethos Legacy\r\nCatalyst (Pty) Ltd (t/a Sibanda Legacy) is respected intellectual\r\nproperty, innovation and entrepreneurship expert with excellent\r\nunderstanding of different ecosystems in Africa.

He was CEO of\r\nThe Innovation Hub (2011-2018), where he oversaw its\r\nrepositioning to focus on innovation. An engineer and admitted\r\nattorney of the High Court of South Africa, and registered South\r\nAfrican patent attorney, he co-founded boutique intellectual\r\nproperty firm Sibanda & Zantwijk Attorneys (and practiced until February 2019) and consulting\r\ncompany Intangible Consulting t/a Ideanav, for which he is a director and shareholder.\r\nPassionate about Africa’s socioeconomic development, he has consulted for Southern African\r\nDevelopment Community (SADC), African Union (AU), World Intellectual Property Organization\r\n(WIPO), Governments of Eswatini, South Africa and Tanzania, and UN Economic Commission\r\nfor Africa (UNECA).

He was the lead drafter of South Africa’s Intellectual Property Rights from\r\nPublicly Financed Research and Development Act, 2008. He has served on a number of\r\ncontinental and international boards, and currently sits on the Board of the Africa Health\r\nResearch Institutes (AHRI), the Council of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), and\r\nChairs the Board of Qualibasicseed Group (Kenya, South Africa). He is a visiting lecturer at\r\nAfrica University (Mutare, Zimbabwe), where he lectures on Innovation and Entrepreneurship to\r\nMasters in Intellectual Property Management students.

In 2020 UNISA conferred an Adjunct\r\nProfessorship on Dr Sibanda. McLean holds a Doctorate of Laws (PhD) from the University of\r\nSouth Africa (UNISA) and his thesis supervised by Professor Dr. Dres. h.c. Joseph Straus from\r\nMax Plank Institute (Munich, Germany) is entitled, Enabling Intellectual Property and Innovation\r\nSystems for South Africa’s Development and Competitiveness. He has authored a number of\r\narticles on IP matters and the recent article “The Intellectual Property System as a Catalyst for\r\nSocio-Economic Development for Middle Income Countries: Lessons from South Africa” jointly\r\nauthored with Joseph Straus to be published in European Intellectual Property Review Issue 11\r\n(2020). He has published two books: “Nuts & Bolts - Strengthening Africa’s Innovation and\r\nEntrepreneurship Ecosystems” (Jan 2021), Tracey McDonald Publishers and “Footprints:\r\nLaying the Path – Intellectual property for innovation and economic development.” (Oct 2021),\r\nTracey McDonald Publishers.

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Head of IP Commercialization Section, IP for Business Division, WIPO

Ms. Mages leads a team at the World Intellectual Property\r\nOrganization (WIPO) that empowers enterprises, innovators, and creators to\r\nmaximize their potential through the creation and commercialization of\r\nintellectual property. This includes the Inventor Assistance Program (IAP),\r\nwhich connects under-resourced inventors with volunteer patent attorneys and\r\nagents to navigate the patent system. Prior to her current role, Ms. Mages\r\nheaded WIPO’s legislative and policy advice section for patents and trade secrets.\r\nShe collaborated with more than 45 countries and other bodies at different\r\nlevels of development to update their legislative frameworks.

Prior to joining WIPO, Ms. Mages was Senior Counsel for IP\r\nat General Electric, where she most recently managed IP and technology aspects\r\nin M&A transactions. She also has extensive experience in IP policy\r\ndevelopment from the corporate perspective. Ms. Mages has worked across the\r\ninnovation cycle, including as an inventor and through experience in patent\r\nanalytics, drafting, prosecution, and strategic portfolio management.

Ms. Mages earned her Bachelors of Science in Biomedical\r\nEngineering from Boston University and is a graduate of the Quinnipiac\r\nUniversity School of Law. She is a member of the Connecticut bar and is\r\nregistered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Senior Minister, Government of Singapore,\r\nSingapore

Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam is Senior Minister\r\nin Singapore, having previously served for several years as Deputy Prime\r\nMinister and as Minister for Finance. He is concurrently the Chairman of the\r\nMonetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Singapore’s central bank and financial\r\nregulator, and Deputy Chairman of the Government of Singapore Investment\r\nCorporation (GIC).

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Mr. Tharman co-chairs the Global Commission\r\non the Economics of Water, whose recommendations will be considered in the UN\r\nWater Conference in 2023 (the first since 1977), and is on the United Nations’\r\nHigh-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism.

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Tharman co-chaired the G20 High Level\r\nIndependent Panel on Global Financing for Pandemic Preparedness and Response,\r\ntogether with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Lawrence Summers, in 2021. He also\r\nchaired the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance, which in\r\nOct 2018 proposed reforms for a more effective system of finance for\r\ndevelopment, sustainability, and financial stability.

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Tharman chairs the Group of Thirty, an\r\nindependent global council of economic and financial leaders from the public\r\nand private sectors and academia. He also co-chairs the Global Education Forum,\r\nand the Advisory Board for the UN’s Human Development Report. He earlier\r\nchaired the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) for four\r\nyears; he was its first Asian chair.

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IP Finance and Valuation Expert, IP\r\nCommercialization Section, IP for Business Division, WIPO

Prior to joining WIPO, Mr. Kos worked for more than ten years in the financial sector. During this time, Mr. Kos has executed several cross-border mergers & acquisitions and has gained valuation and transaction expertise in a range of industries incl. consumer goods & retail, pharmaceuticals & medtech and industrial technology. From 2017 to 2021, Mr. Kos was a Vice President with Alantra, a Zurich-based corporate finance boutique, where he worked with a specific focus on managing corporate transactions. He has also held roles at Deloitte, Robert W. Baird, and KPMG. In addition, Mr. Kos is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants.IP Commercialization Section, IP for Innovators Department of WIPO
IP Finance and Valuation Expert,
Mr. Michael Kos

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Vice President for Private Sector at the\r\nDevelopment Bank of Latin America – CAF
\r\nProfessor of Economics, University of Brasília

Arbache is an expert on development finance\r\nand development economics and has published regularly on those areas and\r\nrelated fields. Mr. Arbache has served as Deputy Minister for International\r\nAffairs at the Ministry of Planning of Brazil; Chief Economist at the Ministry\r\nof Planning; Executive Secretary of the Brazil-China Investment Fund; Senior\r\nEconomic Advisor to the Presidency of the Brazilian Development Bank – BNDES;\r\nSenior Economist at the World Bank; and Economist at the International Labor\r\nOrganization. Mr Arbache has also served as member of the board of directors of\r\nlarge companies and banks and as a member of high-profile business and policy\r\ncommittees. He is op-ed business columnist at the Jornal Valor Econômico.

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Director-General for Internal Market, Industry,\r\nEntrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission

Kerstin Jorna is a German national and\r\na civil servant at the European Commission where she has held various\r\npositions, amongst others as Head of Cabinet of several Commissioners and different\r\nDirector posts.

Mrs. Jorna is the Director-General for\r\nInternal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. Before,

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Mrs. Jorna was Deputy Director-General for\r\nEconomic and Financial Affairs. Mrs. Jorna also held positions on the Board of\r\nthe European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund as well as the\r\nEuropean Innovation Council Fund.

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General manager of COTEC Portugal

Jorge Portugal is the\r\ngeneral manager of COTEC Portugal, a leading cross industry network of\r\ncompanies located in Portugal. Previously, he accumulated extensive corporate\r\nmanagement experience and transformation in retail, banking and information\r\ntechnology sectors. Mr. Jorge served for a decade the President of Portuguese\r\nRepublic as advisor on innovation, entrepreneurship and advised the Portuguese\r\nGovernment and European institutions. His academic research work includes\r\nenvironmental turbulent dispersion and business management. He is speaker at\r\nnational and international events on business innovation, technology and\r\nmanagement and instructor for executive training at several business schools. Mr.\r\nJorge Portugal earned his graduation, MSc and PhD studies in mechanical\r\nengineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. He received\r\nhis MBA from NOVA School of Business and Economics and accomplished the\r\nLeadership Program on Cybersecurity of U.S. Department of State.

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Managing Partner, Intellectual Property-Backed\r\nFinancing at BDC Capital

Ms. Lally Rementilla is Managing Partner,\r\nIntellectual Property-Backed Financing at BDC Capital. She oversees and\r\nprovides strategic guidance to a national team that helps IP-rich companies\r\nbecome global leaders by accelerating their growth and commercialization of\r\ntheir innovation. Following nearly two decades of experience as a financial\r\nexecutive in the technology sector, Ms. Rementilla moved into investment, becoming Chief Financial Officer and then President & Chief Executive\r\nOfficer of commercial lender Quantius. At Quantius, she structured and launched\r\nthe company’s main fund and helped build a diverse portfolio of knowledge-based\r\ncompanies. Prior to that, she was Vice President of Finance and Administration\r\nat Nulogy Corporation. She was Vice President Finance at Lavalife Corp. and\r\nArea Vice President Finance and Contract Management at Lucent Technologies\r\nCanada. Ms. Rementilla is currently chairperson of the board of Interaxon Inc.\r\nand is an Associate Fellow at the Creative Destruction Lab. She previously served on several other\r\nboards, including the Innovation Asset Collective (Canada’s first patent\r\ncollective), Pique Ventures Investments, the Information Technology Association\r\nof Canada, and Canadian Women in Communications. She also served as the former\r\nCanada Lead for the Billion Dollar Fund for Women. Ms. Rementilla is a proud\r\nsupporter of Canadian innovation and derives great satisfaction from partnering\r\nwith founders and management teams to help them scale. She is an experienced\r\ngender lens investor with an eye to creating impact for women globally. A\r\nChartered Professional Accountant, she also holds a Master of Business\r\nAdministration from York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications\r\nfrom Ateneo de Manila University.

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Head of Intellectual Property Solutions EMEA Aon

Will lead’s Aon’s\r\nIntellectual Property practice for Aon across EMEA.

Mr. Will specializes\r\nin structuring complex IP lending transactions, enhanced with insurance. Mr. Will\r\nis responsible for driving Aon’s go-to-market strategy in EMEA and leads\r\nengagement with both insurance providers and lending capital partners. Mr. Will\r\nalso advises Aon’s European-based clients on their IP Risk needs, including the\r\navailability and applicability of innovative insurance solutions. Mr. Will has\r\nbeen with Aon for over ten years. He has always focused on intangible asset\r\nsolutions for multinational clients, first as a broker within the Financial\r\nServices Group, and more recently as a Director within Cyber Solutions.

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Prior to joining Aon Mr.\r\nWill was at the University of Birmingham. During his time in the industry he\r\nhas become an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII).

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Secretary General,\r\nASEAN, Jakarta, Indonesia

Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi\r\nwas the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,\r\nBrunei Darussalam. During his tenure, he\r\nserved as Brunei Darussalam’s Senior Official for the ASEAN Economic Community\r\nPillar (SEOM), APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) and the ASEM\r\n(Asia-Europe Meeting). He was a member of the High Level Task Force on ASEAN\r\nEconomic Integration (HLTF-EI) since 2001, serving as the HLTF-EI Chair in\r\n2017. He was Brunei Darussalam’s Chief Negotiator for the Trans-Pacific\r\nPartnership Agreement (TPP), as well as for the P4, precursor to the TPP\r\nnegotiations. Previously, he was also the Co-Chair during the negotiations for\r\nthe ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA), and also served as\r\nBrunei Darussalam’s Chief Negotiator for the Brunei Darussalam-Japan Economic\r\nPartnership Agreement (BJEPA). From June 2011-2017, he was the Chairman of the\r\nGoverning Board of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).\r\nHe was also on the External Advisory Board for the ASEAN 2030 Study being\r\nundertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

He entered the\r\nGovernment Service as an education officer in 1977 and served as principal of a\r\nSecondary School from 1981 – 1985. From February 2001 – July 2005, he was\r\nappointed as Director-General, International Relations and Trade Development,\r\nMinistry of Industry and Primary Resources. In September 2005, he was appointed\r\nas Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He\r\ngraduated from the City of London Polytechnic in B.Sc (Hons) Economics in 1976\r\nand received his Post Graduate Certificate of Education in 1977. He was\r\nconferred the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, (Gwanghwa Medal) by President\r\nof the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in on 6 April 2022 for his contributions in\r\nstrengthening relations and cooperation between ASEAN and the Republic of\r\nKorea. He was awarded The Most Honourable Order of Seri Paduka Mahkota Brunei,\r\nsecond Class (D.P.M.B) in 2007.

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Partner, Deal Advisory, Global Head of Valuation\r\nServices - Head of Valuation & Financial Modelling in Switzerland, KPMG

Johannes is a KPMG\r\npartner in Switzerland. As KPMG’s Global Head of Valuation Services, he leads a\r\nnetwork of valuation practices in over 70 countries with more than 2’200\r\nvaluation professionals. Mr. Johannes also leads the Valuation & Financial\r\nModelling practice at KPMG Switzerland. He joined KPMG Corporate Finance in\r\nMunich in 2001. Between 2005 and 2007 he spent two years with KPMG in the\r\nEconomic and Valuation Services practice in New York and has been based in\r\nZurich since 2008. Prior to joining KPMG, Johannes worked for three years at an\r\ninternational software consulting company with long-term project assignments in\r\nthe U.S., France, India and in the UK. Mr. Johannes performs complex business\r\nvaluations and valuations of intangible assets such as brands, technology, or\r\ncustomer relationships, in the context of sell side and buy side M&A\r\nmandates, joint ventures, capital funding, as well as for restructuring cases\r\nor dispute resolutions. Johannes advises his clients on value management topics\r\nand portfolio analysis. Valuations for financial reporting (IFRS and U.S.\r\nGAAP), fund reporting and international tax planning purposes is a key area of\r\nhis expertise. He regularly provides fairness opinions and other independent\r\nvaluation services.

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Mr. Johannes\r\nfrequently performs economic damages quantification, business and/or IP\r\nvaluations in litigation and international arbitration proceedings either as a\r\ncourt appointed independent expert or as a party-appointed expert witness in\r\ncases such as shareholder / JV partner disputes, intellectually property right\r\ninfringement, breaches of contract or inheritance disputes.

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General Manager of Inclusive Finance Department, Bank\r\nof China

Ms. Wang Xiaozhuo is\r\nthe General Manager of Inclusive Finance Department at Bank of China (BOC). Ms.\r\nWang has more than 20 years of professional experience in credit business and\r\nasset investment. She has been engaged in promoting technological innovation of\r\nintellectual property evaluation and its application in credit service for\r\nsmall and micro enterprises. Ms. Wang was formerly Senior Manager and Division\r\nHead of Corporate Banking Department at BOC. She later served as Vice Executive\r\nPresident of BOC Group Investment Limited (BOCG Investment), responsible for\r\nsectors of equity investment and fund investment. BOCG Investment is the major\r\nplatform for the direct investment business of BOC, where she took the lead and\r\nparticipated in high-tech project investment appraisal and decision-making.

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HSBC UK Head of Technology Sector and Growth Lending

Roland is a career banker, but not of the\r\ntraditional mould. He is a big fan of psychology, and how human beings interact\r\nwith each other and technology. Mr. Roland spends a lot of time cutting through\r\n‘Buzz words’ of what tech change really means to us here and now, and in the\r\nmedium term.

Mr. Roland heads up HSBC UK’s Technology Sector\r\n& Growth Lending, helping growing businesses from start-ups to large quoted\r\nmultinationals. He is a 25 yrs.+ career banker having worked in a wide range of\r\nroles and geographies, for the last 12 years he has focussed purely on the tech\r\nsector. Mr. Roland jokes that he spends much of his time translating what tech\r\nfirms do into a language banks can understand.

\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMr. Roland is aware he is very lucky to get to\r\nmeet more than 200 innovative tech firms per year, getting to hear the inside\r\nstory, giving him a big network and broad perspective on the sector. Whatever\r\nelse is happening, one thing stays the same – the rapidly growing presence of\r\ntech in every aspect of modern life. The embrace of digital transformation\r\nacross every sector is spurring enormous growth in Technology firms, which are\r\nstarting up, scaling up and expanding at pace“

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President of INPI Brazil

Cláudio Vilar Furtado was nominated as President of INPI Brazil in\r\nFebruary 11, 2019. He was Professor at the Business School of São Paulo\r\n(EAESP), Getúlio Vargas foundation (FGV). He holds a Phd in Business,\r\nEAESP-FGVMasters of Business Economics and PhD in Finance, University of\r\nChicago. Masters in Business Administration, Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV).\r\nGraduation in Economy, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

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Co-Founder and CEO, Inngot Limited

Martin is co-founder of Inngot Limited, which\r\nprovides innovative online tools to help companies ‘unlock’ their IP value.

Mr. Martin Brassell is an expert in the use of\r\nintellectual property in business finance, and the identification, scoring and\r\nvaluation processes needed to facilitate this emerging market. He has worked\r\nextensively with banks, investors, insurers and policy makers across the UK,\r\nEurope and Asia to develop new approaches that recognised the importance of\r\nintangible assets for business competitiveness and growth.

Mr. Martin is an RSA Fellow and a member of\r\nCIPA’s IP Commercialisation Committee. He is recognized by IAM Magazine as one\r\nof the top 300 IP strategists worldwide.

\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMr. Martin has written and co-authored a number of influential\r\npublications on IP identification and financing. His international publications\r\ninclude Fostering the use of intangibles to strengthen SME access to finance for\r\nOECD the 2013 Banking on IP report and 2017 Hidden Value report for the UK\r\nIntellectual Property Office, and two reports on intangibles identification for\r\nthe Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He has also\r\nco-authored a book for Oxford University Press, Economic Approaches to\r\nIntellectual Property, with Dr Nicola Searle.

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Professor of Law and Director, Center for\r\nInternational IP and Finance at HUFS Law School, Hankuk University of Foreign\r\nStudies, Seoul, Korea

Mr. Chul Choi is a professor of law at the Law\r\nSchool of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) and Director of the\r\nCenter for International IP and Finance at HUFS Law School. He is also co-chair\r\nof IIPCC Korea Chapter. Prof. Choi has been actively involved in IP finance\r\npolicy in Korea as an expert committee member of the IP Policy Council, Prime\r\nMinister’s Office and the Presidential Council on IP Policy. He co-authored a\r\nbook, IP Finance: Structure and Case of IP Business Model and Finance,\r\npublished in Korea and China. He has attended international and national IP\r\nconferences as a moderator and speaker, including Global IP Finance Conference\r\norganized by KIPO and FSC. He was recognized as a leading IP Finance expert in\r\nthe IP Trend Report by the Korea Institute of Intellectual Property in 2018.\r\nBefore joining HUFS Law School as a professor, he practiced as an English\r\nlawyer and worked for an international law firm, Allen & Overy, in London\r\nand Hong Kong. He holds degrees of LLM in Intellectual Property Law and LLM in\r\nInternational Finance Law from the University of London. He graduated from\r\nSeoul National University and earned MBA and BA in Management. He also\r\nparticipated in the STS Fellowship program at Harvard Kennedy School.

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Director Business and International Policy,\r\nIntellectual Property Office (UKIPO), Newport, United Kingdom

Sarah Joined the Civil Service as a patent\r\nexaminer in 2009. Since then she has held a variety of policy and operational\r\nroles in the IPO. She has experience of domestic legislation, international,\r\ntrade and innovation policy. In 2019 she was chair of the WIPO Standing\r\nCommittee on the Law of Parents. Prior to her current role Sarah was Deputy\r\nDirector for Customer Experience within the IPO’s Business Operations Division.

\r\n\r\nSarah holds a Masters in Biochemistry from the University of Bath and a\r\nPhD from the University of Manchester.

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General Manager of SMEs & Startup Banking\r\nDepartment Hana Bank Seoul Korea

Mr. Hyunsig(Alex) Sung, General Manager of\r\nSMEs & Startup Banking Department, Hana Bank Seoul Korea.

Mr. Hyunsig(Alex) Sung received a master's\r\ndegree in economics from Sungkyunkwan University(Seoul Korea).

He entered HANA Bank and served as a credit\r\nofficer and branch manager in corporate finance.

Currently as the general manager of SMEs &\r\nStartup Banking Department for Hana Bank, he leads the SOHO, innovative\r\nfinancial products and policy fund products team.

The department including 20 professionals,\r\ndoctor's and patent attorneys, provides policies and support for loans based on\r\nIP as collateral, mortgage on movable asset, and technology-based loans.

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In 2012, he was the founding member of the\r\n\"mortgage on movable asset\" regulation establishment team organized\r\nby the Korea Federation of Bank.

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Executive Director of IP Strategy, JPMorgan Chase

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Ivan Kirchev is an Executive Director of IP Strategy at JPMorgan Chase. In his current role, Ivan is responsible for\r\nthe overall IP strategy at JPMC and for extracting value from JPMC's technology\r\nand IP by executing all activities around facilitating and closing various\r\npartnerships and tech transactions including: commercialization, tech transfers\r\n& licensing, patent licensing, joint development & partnerships,\r\ninvesting with IP and technology, mitigating risk, and other business\r\ntransactions involving JPMC’s technology and IP. Previously, Ivan was at HP/HPE where he held\r\na variety of roles involving patent development, portfolio management, IP &\r\ntech licensing, transactions, and IP strategy.

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Senior researcher,\r\nEuropean Future Innovation System Centre

Kris Boschmans (PhD) is\r\na senior researcher at the EFIS Centre with almost 20 years of experience in\r\neconomic research and policy assessment. His main areas of expertise are\r\nrelated to SME and entrepreneurship development, finance and innovation, and he\r\nhas published extensively on these topics. Before joining the Centre, he has\r\nworked as an analyst for the OECD at the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs,\r\nRegions and Cities, the OECD Development Centre, civil service and academia.

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Throughout his career,\r\nhe advised several international organisations (including ASEAN, the European\r\nCommission and the G20) as well as national public agencies on the\r\naforementioned topics. Kris is the author of several publications on how to\r\nleverage SMEs’ intangible assets to secure credit, and was responsible for an\r\nOECD flagship project on SME finance for a period of six years. Kris holds a\r\nPhD in applied economics from Antwerp University and a masters degree from\r\nGhent University, Belgium.

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Central Legal Operations\r\nOfficer, Shell

Erik W. Pérez is a 2002\r\ngraduate of The University of Alabama’s School of Arts & Sciences where he\r\nreceived his Ph.D. in Chemistry and holds an Executive MBA from Saint Joseph’s\r\nUniversity in Philadelphia, PA. Erik\r\nstarted his career as a Chemist working in fluorine chemistry supporting a\r\nglobal refrigerants and electronic gases business. Erik then transitioned towards a legal\r\nprofessional, initially in Intellectual Property as a Registered U.S. Patent\r\nAgent and eventually shifting to a leadership position in Legal and IP\r\nOperations where responsibilities include intellectual property operations, law\r\nfirm relationship management, pricing, information technology, finance,\r\nstrategy, metrics and data, paralegal and administration support across the\r\nglobal legal team. Erik also had the\r\nfortune to spend two years living in The Hague, Netherlands on an international\r\nassignment in his current role as Central Legal Operations Officer. Erik and family now reside outside of\r\nHouston, Tx.

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Intellectual Property Director, MF Brands
\r\nPresident of the International Trademark Association (INTA)

Zeeger Vink is Intellectual\r\nProperty Director at MF BRANDS, the Swiss group that owns several fashion &\r\nlifestyle brands, including LACOSTE. In this role he oversees the group’s\r\nglobal IP function and leads a team of specialized IP professionals.

Previously, Mr. Zeeger\r\nwas in-house IP counsel at L’OREAL in France, where he was in charge of global\r\nIP protection for several group brands. He started his career as attorney,\r\npracticing in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Mr. Zeeger holds a\r\nmaster’s degree in law from the University of Amsterdam, with specializations\r\nin IP law and marketing. He taught IP at the international master’s program of\r\nSCIENCES PO University in Paris for close to a decade, and guest-lectured at\r\nvarious business schools across Europe.

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Mr. Zeeger currently serves as President of the\r\nINTERNATIONAL TRADEMARK ASSOCIATION (INTA). He actively advocates the creation\r\nand protection of IP through his book THE GREAT CATAPULT: How Integrated IP\r\nManagement Will Shoot Your Brand to Success.

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President, TURKPATENT

Cemil BAŞPINAR has been graduated from Istanbul Technical University,\r\nDepartment of Civil Engineering with BSc. degree at year 2004 and with MSc.\r\ndegree at year 2009. After starting as Assistant Patent Examiner in year 2004\r\nat Turkish Patent Institute, which was then named as Turkish Patent and\r\nTrademark Institution, he has completed his expert studies and the thesis on\r\n\"Sectoral Analysis of Patent Activities in the Manufacturing\r\nIndustry\" in 2008 and received the title of Patent Examiner. Başpınar\r\nserved as the Acting Chairman of the Board and Acting Chairman of the Turkish\r\nPatent and Trademark Institution between March 2002 and September 2022, where\r\nwas previously appointed as Vice President of the Institution in February 2015.\r\nBaşpınar is currently serving as the Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the\r\nTurkish Patent and Trademark Institution from September 2022. Cemil Başpınar is\r\nalso the Chairman of the Disciplinary Board of Patent Attorneys and Trademark\r\nAttorneys, and the Chairman of the Board of Turkish Industrial Property\r\nValuation Engineering and Consultancy Services Inc., an affiliation of the\r\nTurkish Patent and Trademark Institution.

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Commissioner, Korean\r\nIntellectual Property Office, Republic of Korea

Ms. Lee Insil is the Commissioner of the\r\nKorean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the national authority on\r\nindustrial property of the Republic of Korea. Before being appointed as head of\r\nKIPO, she led as President of the Korea Women Inventors Association. She has previously\r\nheld key positions as President of the International Federation of Intellectual\r\nProperty Attorneys, Vice President of the Korea Patent Attorneys Association,\r\nand the East Asia Regional Chairperson of the Business & Professional\r\nWomen. She has also been a member of the Presidential Regulatory Reform\r\nCommittee and the Presidential Council on Intellectual Property. She holds a\r\nDoctorate degree of Law from Korea University, LLM from the University of\r\nWashington, USA and Ewha Women’s University, Korea.

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Nicholas Talbot is the Chief Executive of the International Valuation\r\nStandards Council (IVSC) – a position he has held since July of 2016, following\r\non from an interim role in 2015 when he led a restructure of the organization\r\nto increase it’s technical expertise and global impact. Mr. Nick is seen as an\r\ninternational expert in advising on standards and professionalism. The IVSC\r\nbrings together experts from around the world to produce International\r\nValuation Standards. It covers all asset classes and is recognized in different\r\nways by the World Bank, IMF, UN, as well as some of the world’s biggest\r\ninvestors, corporates and influential professional bodies who qualify\r\nappraisers. It also engages at the highest leadership levels of regulators\r\naround the world in order to improve and give confidence in the approach to\r\nvaluation. It is overseen by an independent board of global leaders.

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Before joining IVSC Nick was a global director at RICS and has held\r\nvarious non-executive positions, having previously worked for much of his\r\ncareer in a variety of international roles at Ernst & Young and KPMG.

\r\n\r\nOutside of work Nick dedicates time to raising profile\r\nand money for Cystic Fibrosis (CF) charities across the world and as part of\r\nhis fundraising was the first person with CF to summit Everest. He has featured\r\nin various documentaries, television, radio and news outlets across the world,\r\nand received a Point of Light Award from the UK Prime Minister.
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Executive Director, AlphaMundi Group

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Deputy Executive Director, European Union\r\nIntellectual Property Office

Andrea Di Carlo, an\r\nItalian national, was appointed as Deputy Executive Director of the European\r\nUnion Intellectual Property (EUIPO)Office\r\nby the Council of the European Union in 2019. Previously, Mr. Andrea was part\r\nof the Office’s management team leading different EUIPO functional areas such\r\nas institutional and external relations, international cooperation, enforcement\r\nrelated activities and customer services. Mr. Di Carlo has contributed to the\r\ndesign and implementation of several successful initiatives undertaken by the\r\nOffice in recent years,\r\nsuch as the full digitalization of the services offered to EUIPO users, the\r\nreshaping of the collaboration with national and regional IP offices of the EU\r\nthrough the Cooperation Fund and the Convergence Programme, the deployment of\r\nEU funded projects to enhance IP protection in third countries, and the\r\nestablishment and development of the European Observatory on Infringements of\r\nIntellectual Property Rights. Mr. Di Carlo is a graduate in Law from Perugia\r\nUniversity and holds an LLM in IP Law and a Master in Business Administration.

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Director General, Ethiopian Intellectual Property Authority (EIPA)

Ermias Y. Hailemariam (PhD) joined the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Authority (EIPA) in October 2015 as Director of Trade mark and Industrial Design protection directorate. Before he joined EIPA, he served as University lecturer teaching law including IP and attorney at all federal courts. He is currently serving as Director General of EIPA since November 2017.

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Director of Multilateral Policy Office, International Policy Division, Japan Patent Office (JPO)

TAUCHI Koji is the Director of the Multilateral Policy Office in the International Policy Division at the Japan Patent Office (JPO). He is responsible for administering multilateral policy issues, while working with various committees at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

After joining the JPO in 2003, Mr. Tauchi served in various important roles at the JPO, such as an administrative judge and patent examiner in the e-commerce and IT fields, a deputy director leading a project making trademark examination processes more efficient, a deputy director responsible for overseeing the Manual for Trial and Appeal Proceedings, a deputy director in charge of revising the Japanese Patent Act regarding employee inventions, and an assistant director performing technological research based on trends in patent applications for next-generation technologies.

In addition, Mr. Tauchi served as Director for Intellectual Property at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Düsseldorf in Germany, as well as the Intellectual Property Attaché in Europe for the JPO from 2016 to 2019.

Mr. Tauchi is a graduate of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan (Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and the University of Washington in the USA (LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law and Policy), as well as a visiting scholar at the University of Washington. He also studied as an exchange student at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He gave presentations and guest lectures at universities around the world, including Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 in France, Technische Universität München in Germany, Hitotsubashi University in Japan, and University of Washington in the USA.

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