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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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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Chief Executive, Intellectual Property Office of\r\nSingapore, Singapore

\r\nMrs Rena Lee is the Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property\r\nOffice of Singapore (IPOS). Rena began her career in the public\r\nservice with the Ministry of Defence in 1992, and has since\r\nserved with the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the Ministry of\r\nForeign Affairs as well. She has specialized in the practice of\r\ninternational law, including international humanitarian and human\r\nrights law, law of the sea, environmental and climate change law.\r\nRena also currently serves as Singapore’s Ambassador for\r\nOceans and Law of the Sea Issues and the Special Envoy of the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

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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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Prof. Xiaolan Fu
Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), Professor of Technology and International Development, Oxford University
Ms. Fu is also the Director of Research of Oxford Department of International Development at the University. Founder of OxValue.ai. Her research interests include innovation, technology, and industrialization; trade, foreign direct investment, and economic development; and emerging Asian economies. Ms. Fu is appointed by the Secretary-General of United Nations to the Governing Council of the Technology Bank for the Least Developed the Counties and to the Ten-Member High Level Advisory Group of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism. She has published extensively in leading international journals. Her recent books include Oxford Handbook of China Innovation (2022), Innovation Under the Radar: The Nature and Source of Innovation in Africa (2020), China’s Path to Innovation (2015), China’s Role in Global Economic Recovery (2011), and The Rise of Technological Power in the South (2010).

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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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Former Head Global IP Valuation Committee, Licensing Executives Society International (LESI)
André Gorius graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, 1985), where he obtained the titles of « Docteur de Troisième Cycle » and « Professeur Agrégé » in Physics. In 1988, he obtained his PhD (“Doctorat d’Etat ès Sciences”) in Chemical Engineering. He specializes in valuation of intangible and IP assets and start-ups, in the general frames of Technology Transfers, Merge & Acquisitions, and Transfer Pricing, Litigations. Since July 2019, he is a consultant and advisor to companies, he is a member of the “Association d’Experts en Evaluation d’Entreprises” (Enterprise Valuation Experts), AMAVI (Association for Management and Valuation of Intangibles), is a former Chair of the IP Valuation Committee, within LESI (Licensing Executives Society International) and since January 2023 is an International IP Valuation Expert for WIPO.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/4f0c57dc-329b-471a-829d-4125707440bb.jpg","name":"Mr. André Gorius","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":225414,"bio":"

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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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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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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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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H.E. Ms. Indranee Rajah,
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Second Minister
for Finance and Second Minister for National
Development, Singapore
Ms Indranee Rajah is the Minister in the Prime Minister’s
Office. She is also Second Minister for Finance and National
Development. Ms Rajah is the Leader of the House for the
14th Parliament. She has been a Member of Parliament for
the Tanjong Pagar Group Representation Constituency
(GRC) since 2001. She is a Senior Counsel and was a
practicing lawyer before joining Government. Ms Rajah
assists in the oversight of the National Population and Talent
Division in the Prime Minister’s Office.
Under her Finance portfolio, she is involved in the
development of the Government’s fiscal policies. She also
oversees the Professional Services Programme Office and
Infrastructure Asia. As Second Minister for National
Development, she is involved in the formulation of
Singapore’s housing and development polices.
Ms Rajah is also involved in the Forward Singapore exercise,
as one of the Ministers overseeing the Care pillar. This pillar
explores how to enable every Singaporean to lead a dignified
and fulfilling life, and to better care for themselves and others
around them. Forward Singapore is a collective effort
between the Government and Singaporeans, to refresh
Singapore’s social compact and set out a roadmap for the
next decade and beyond.

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Vice-President for Science, Technology and Knowledge-based Economy of I.R. Iran
H.E. Rouhollah Dehghani Firouzabadi is an associate professor at Sharif University of Technology and distinguished researcher in the field of Aerospace engineering. Since 2022, by the decree of the President of I.R.Iran, He has been appointed as the Vice-President for Science, Technology, and Knowledge-based Economy and Chairman of Iran's National Elites Foundation. He held previous roles as Deputy of Research, Technology and Innovation, Islamic Azad University and Deputy of Cultural and Social Affairs, Sharif University of Technology.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/218f58ec-d849-45bf-898a-7df17e6b288f.jpg","name":"H.E. Mr. Rouhollah Dehghani Firouzabadi","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":226362,"bio":"

Mr. João Negrão,
Executive Director, European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Mr Negrão led the expansion of the EUIPO’s cooperation with national and regional EU IP offices, creating the European Union Intellectual Property Network. In the framework of this cooperation, the EUIPO, together with the national offices of the Member States, developed some of the most advanced IT systems and tools, such as TMview and DESIGNview, which are today fully available, online, in more than 30 languages, and free of charge, to all the users of the IP system. He also led the creation of the Convergence Programme, which harmonises practices at EU level, and oversaw the expansion of the EUIPO’s international cooperation activities.

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Ms. Pamela Coke-Hamilton,
Executive Director, International Trade Center
Pamela Coke-Hamilton has served as Executive Director of ITC since October 2020. Since that time she has led the agency to meet the economic and trade challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent global supply chain disruptions. Ms. Coke-Hamilton has a breadth of experience and expertise in trade-related capacity-building and sustainable development and a deep understanding of the challenges faced by vulnerable economies such as the small island developing states and least developed countries.
Ms. Coke-Hamilton has worked extensively with the private sector and academia across African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to build trade-related institutional strength within member States. She also established the Women Empowered through Export (WeXport) platform to address the disadvantages that women-owned firms experience in accessing markets. She began her career in Jamaica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and later also served as Director of Trade, Tourism and Competitiveness of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA).

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Mr. Peter Kažimír,
Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia
In April 2012 Mr Kažimír was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic. As Finance Minister, from 2012 to 2019, his main priorities included combatting tax fraud and evasion, structural reforms, and public spending rationalization via projects such as the Value for Money spending review. Since 1 June 2019 Mr Kažimír has served as the Governor of Národná banka Slovenska (NBS). As NBS Governor, he is also a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, a member of the General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board, Alternate Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the Slovak Republic and, since 4 June 2019, Governor of the International Monetary Fund for the Slovak Republic. Mr Kažimír was chosen for the 2018 European Finance Minister of the Year Award by the Banker, a British magazine.

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Ms. Astrid Bartels,
Head of Access to Finance Unit, Directorate-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
Ms Bartels has been working on financial instruments for SMEs and related policies since 2011. Prior to that, she worked in the area of chemicals legislation, where she was instrumental to setting up the European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki.
Before joining the Commission in 2002, she was a consultant for Bain & Company and also a corporate client relationship manager at Deutsche Bank. She holds a Vordiplom in economics from the University of Hagen and obtained an MBA from the University of North Carolina, Kenan Flager Business School, USA.

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Ms. Nabila Aguele Member of the Board of Directors of INSEAD, former Special Adviser to the Ministry of Finance and Planning Nabila Aguele served as a Special Adviser to Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, and supports on international development cooperation; and performance monitoring and evaluation for data-driven policy formulation and implementation. Ms. Aguele previously served as a Special Adviser to the Nigerian Minister of Finance, and as a Technical/Special Adviser to the Nigerian Minister of State for Budget & National Planning. Before that she practiced law in the United States, representing Fortune 500 companies in complex civil litigations at international law firms Morrison & Foerster LLP and Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal LLP (now “Dentons”).

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Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
Mr Haskel has taught at the University of Bristol and London Business School and been a visiting professor at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, USA; Stern School of Business, New York University, USA; and visiting researcher at the Australian National University. His research is on productivity and intangible investment and is the co-author of the book, “Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy”. He has been a non-executive director of the UK Statistics Authority and panel member of the Competition and Markets Authority.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/bbdadb2c-8c8a-4c70-8d9f-c283a0089ef9.jpg","name":"Prof. Jonathan Haskel","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":226368,"bio":"

Prof. Nicolas Crouzet
Associate Professor of Finance, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Mr. Crouzet joined the Kellogg School of Management in 2014.He has a bachelor in science degree. in engineering from Ecole Polytechnique and a PhD from Columbia University. His research focuses on the macroeconomic and financial determinants of corporate investment.

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Ms. Dulce Maria Miranda
IP Partner, Deloitte Legal and Former member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Intellectual Property Valuation
Ms. Miranda is a Partner in Deloitte Legal Spain, with a vast experience in intellectual property law (protection, enforcement, and monetization of IP rights). She also specializes in the legal aspects associated with taxation of intangibles. She was a member of the group of independent experts appointed by the European Commission (Directorate General for Research and Innovation) to draft a report on the valuation of industrial and intellectual property rights. She is listed in some of the most renowned legal directories, such as Chambers & Partners, in the field of intellectual property law. She is a co-author of several publications in this field.

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Ms. Margherita Marini
IP Commercialization Specialist, IP Commercialization Section, IP for Innovators Department of WIPO
Prior to joining WIPO, Ms. Marini was the Head of Global Innovation Services at University College London (UCL) where she led the department advising R&D intensive small-medium enterprises (SMEs), spinouts and startups on how to commercialize new technologies and grow through international collaborations, tech repurposing and mergers & acquisitions. Ms. Marini also worked at CERN's Knowledge Transfer Department, with a particular focus on translating detector-related tech (semiconductors, microelectronics, and digital tech) for industrial applications in the healthcare sector.

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Head of Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT) and Services, NatWest Group
Mr. Bellamy has been a front-line Banker for 29 years and for the last 10 years, has been responsible for the strategy, proposition, and risk for the global TMT sector with a portfolio with a balance sheet of c£17bn.
His team is the no.1 supporter of the UK Tech sector helping businesses ranging from universities to spin outs, to FTSE100 to get the 3B’s –get Backing, get Big & get Bought. Mr. Bellamy is a mentor on the Imperial Ventures Mentoring Service (IVMS) for world class Imperial College spin outs. He is accredited by the Institute of Enterprise & Entrepreneurship and Board Advisor to some of the UK’s most exciting start-ups.”","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/cdbecc7a-ffd6-47e3-a7c4-996ba5a30015.jpg","name":"Mr. Neil Bellamy","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":226372,"bio":"Mr. George Gachara Managing Partner, HEVA Fund
As the managing partner at HEVA Fund from 2013 to 2022, Mr. Gachara raised over USD 10 million, deploying it to over 100 businesses in the sectors of film, music, fashion, and gaming in East Africa. His influence further extended to supporting the establishment of initiatives such as the Ford Foundation backed Documentary Africa Fund (2018), the Netflix Film and Television scholarship program in East Africa (2022), and the Mastercard Foundation's creative industries program (2023). As a scholar, filmmaker, and author, Mr. Gachara has over 12 research projects, a catalogue of films featured globally which won awards. including the Berlinale Teddy Awards, Jury Prize (2015). He is also the author of the book: “The Reverse is True. A Reflective Journey.”","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/2ee8b99c-181f-4132-a9f0-5ec3975f2c71.jpg","name":"Mr. George Gachara","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":226373,"bio":"Ms. Gabriela Contreras Aguilera
Corporate Legal Manager LATAM, Luminova Pharma Group
Ms. Contreras Aguilera is a lawyer and notary public with more than 18 years of experience in the field of intellectual property law. She worked as the Director of Intellectual Property of a leading law firm in Guatemala. Before joining the private practice, Ms. Contreras Aguilera worked for the Department of Oppositions at the Intellectual Property Registry of Guatemala and for the Chamber of Commerce of Guatemala. Currently, Ms Contreras Aguilera is the Corporate Legal Manager for Latin America of Luminova Pharma Group, a pharmaceutical company with presence in more than twelve countries.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/0eb62b41-c637-401e-82bb-243ef8116156.jpg","name":"Ms. Gabriela Contreras Aguilera","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":226374,"bio":"

Ms. Chen Mingyuan
Director of Operational System Construction Division, Intellectual Property Utilization and Promotion Department, China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)
Ms. Mingyan is a government attorney and a nationally recognized professional in the field of intellectual property. Since 2000, she has been engaged in macro-level intellectual property management, intellectual property financial services, utilization of intellectual property, and patent administrative law enforcement at CNIPA. She is responsible for policy development and work promotion and has authored over 10 national standards, including \"Guidelines for Intellectual Property Management in Higher Education Institutions”, “Guidelines for Intellectual Property Management in Research Organizations”, “Guidelines for Patent Navigation\" and \"Guidelines for Patent Evaluation\".

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Mr. Hassan E. Zanaldain,
Senior Business Developer, Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP)
As the Business Development Specialist at the Saudi Authority of Intellectual Property (SAIP), I lead groundbreaking initiatives, guiding innovators from concept to IP filing and market launch. Serving as a key advocate and project manager for the IP Exchange Market within the National Intellectual Property Strategy, I leverage emerging technologies to activate passive IPRs. Committed to strategic awareness, I facilitate workshops, mobilizing knowledge, and fostering support for innovative ventures.

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Ms. Leann Pinto
Chief Executive Officer, IPwe
Leann Pinto began a career as a pharma patent litigator. In 2019, Ms Pinto joined IBM’s IP business group where she generated over $150 million in revenue, eventually moving up to the Director of Patent Licensing role Ms Pinto has overseen the final development and launch in January 2023 of IPwe’s financial IP valuation and business insight strategy tool called Smart Intangible Asset Management (SIAM). Leann was nominated CEO of IPwe in April 2023 and continues to lead the company's growth in partnerships, SIAM users and expansion into Japan. She is widely known as a thought leader in IP finance, having recently earned a slot in IAM’s Strategy 300, as well the application of AI and blockchain—the core technologies underlying IPwe’s SIAM—to IP strategy and utilization for business.

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Mr. Brian Hinman
Chief Innovation Officer, Aon Intellectual Property Solutions
Mr. Hinman has over 30 years of experience in the field of intellectual property and was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame in 2023 and received the Q Todd Dickinson Award for Lifetime Achievement in Intellectual Property. He has held senior executive positions at some of the world’s leading companies. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Philips and CEO of Philips Intellectual Property and Standards. Mr. Hinman was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Unified Patents Inc., and prior to that, he held positions of Vice President of IP and Licensing at IBM, Verizon and InterDigital, and was founding CEO of Allied Security Trust.

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Head of AI and Data Center of Excellence, UBS Group
Mr. Parmaksiz is the Head of UBS's Artificial Intelligence and Data and Analytics Center of Excellence in Investment Banking (IB AI CoE). The CoE collaborates with internal functions to facilitate onboarding to the data ecosystem, create re-usable systems and promote them, and develop standards and best practices. Prior to joining the UBS Group, Mr. Parmaksiz held various leadership roles in global banks for over a decade. As the Head of Innovation and Automation in UBS's Group Risk Control division, he designed and implemented projects that enhanced risk management processes. Previously, as the Head of quantitative teams, he oversaw the development of models in the areas of market and credit risks, helping banks to optimize their regulatory capital requirements.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/66c0a994-ef8d-46aa-95f7-927a325db387.jpg","name":"Mr. Musa Parmaksiz","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":226379,"bio":"Mr. Rafael Ferraz Vasquez,
Legal Officer, Copyright Law Division, Copyright and Creative Industries Sector, WIPO
Since 2013, Rafael Ferraz Vazquez participates in global policy discussions as part of the Copyright Law Division, Copyright and Creative Industries Sector of the World Intellectual Property Organization. He obtained his bachelor from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and holds a master degree in Intellectual Property and Information Society from the University of Alicante, Spain. Before joining WIPO, Rafael worked as a lawyer in Brazil where he advised companies on intellectual property issues including licensing negotiation and strategic IP protection. Rafael had also collaborated with other international organizations such as the EUIPO before joining the Copyright Law Division at WIPO.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/584c3e97-cfe8-4d45-9cf8-659a8aeb62da.jpg","name":"Mr. Rafael Ferraz Vasquez","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":226380,"bio":"Mr. Joern Radloff
Global Head of Music Publishing and Partnerships, Twitch Music
Mr. Radloff is the Global Head of Music Publishing & Partnerships for Twitch Music, a leading global music licensing, strategy, and music repertoire valuation. Previously, he held the same position at Amazon Music following on from a role leading and scaling the IP Rights/Music licensing team for ByteDance / TikTok.
His career builds on previous roles as an IP and M&A lawyer and strategy consultant in international law firms, strategy consultancies and start-ups – evaluating, defining, and executing business strategies in IP monetization, tech, and music rights markets.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/0f7340e4-03c5-472a-9f6b-b68a543261d9.jpg","name":"Mr. Joern Radloff","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":226381,"bio":"

Ms. Lucrecia Cardoso
Secretary of Cultural Development, National, Ministry of Culture of Argentina
Ms Cardoso is currently in charge of the Secretariat of Cultural Development, under the Ministry of Culture of Argentina. She also served as Executive Director of the Observatory of the Audiovisual and Info communications Sector (OSAI) and was one of the compilers of the book \"Políticas y producción audiovisual en la era digital en América Latina\", which synthesizes the results produced within the framework of the CLACSO Working Group on the subject.

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Senior Economist, World Bank Group
Ms. Zhu is a Senior Economist at the World Bank Group based in Washington, DC. She serves as a technical lead in digital business ecosystem, entrepreneurship, and innovation-driven growth topics. Her recent practice covers new knowledge on the industrial organization of platform-based and data-driven businesses, including those in the creative industries and e-commerce. Her scope of work is global and has field experience in implementing investment projects and reforms in Africa, Middle East, Central Asia and Southeast Asia. Her publications in peer reviewed journals are in the areas of economic geography and econometrics.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/dafb5eec-9d5e-4f0d-be1b-ad3eb93fa2a0.jpg","name":"Ms. Juni Tingting Zhu","jobs":"","urls":""},{"id":226383,"bio":"

Mr. Joseph Calabrese
Former Partner and Global Chair of Entertainment, Sports, and Media, Latham Watkins
Mr. Calabrese provided his clients with a uniquely experienced perspective on a full spectrum of film, television, sports, and content-related business transactions including negotiating complex distribution and licensing agreements, mergers and acquisitions and structured finance transactions. He currently serves on the Board of the Constitutional Rights Foundation. He also serves on the Executive Board of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Executive Committee and the Cornell Law School Advisory Committee. Mr. Calabrese has been continually recognized as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal.

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Head, Creative Economy Section, Department for Economics and Data Analytics, IES, WIPO
Mr. Cuntz heads the Creative Economy Section at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. Before joining WIPO, he worked as a senior consultant at the Federal Expert Commission for Research and Innovation (EFI) in Berlin and as a research fellow at the European Commission in Seville. His economic research focuses on creativity, the role of intellectual property, and the impact of digitization on creative industries.","birthdate":"","country":null,"email":"","photourl":"https://c.connectedviews.com/assets/36fea078-47be-46e0-8c76-125e12ca9ca7.jpg","name":"Mr. Alexander Cuntz","jobs":"","urls":""}];