Speakers
Conference Co-Chairs

Tom Irving
Partner
The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

Forrester Liddle
Head of IP and Legal, US R&D
Novo Nordisk
Government Speaker

Charles Kim
Deputy Commissioner for Patents
United States Patent and Trademark Office

Hon. András Kupecz
Legally Qualified Judge
Central Division (Section Munich)
UPC Court of First Instance
Association

John Nappi
Assistant General Counsel
PhRMA
In-House Counsel

Rick Aldridge
Managing Director, Healthcare Investment Banking
Lazard

Tashica Williams Amirgholizadeh, Ph.D.
Senior Associate General Counsel, IP,
IP Alliance and Due Diligence (IPADD), Team Lead
Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Anna L. Cocuzzo
Managing Counsel, Patents, Boston
Merck

Jason Derry
Life Sciences Intellectual Property Counsel
Former Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property, Synthego

Debbie Drazen, Ph.D., J.D.
Assistant General Counsel – Patents
Johnson & Johnson

Julie Anne Gillespie
Executive IP Strategist
Former Vice President, Head of Intellectual Property, BioNTech

Henry Gu
SVP, Head of Intellectual Property
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals

JM Lee
Director, Business Development
Novo Nordisk

Hilary Libka
Chief IP Counsel, Associate General Counsel
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Erica Norey
Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property for Global Business Development and M&A
Sanofi

Jocelyn D. Ram
Intellectual Property Counsel
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Jasbir Sagoo, Ph.D., J.D.
Associate Vice President of Intellectual Property, LSAG
Agilent Technologies, Inc.

William Vickery
Director of Due Diligence
Servier

Lulu Wang
Head of Intellectual Property
Orna Therapeutics

Robin Weatherhead
V.P., Intellectual Property & Legal
Ventus Therapeutics
Outside Counsel

Thorsten Bausch
Partner
Hoffman Eitle

Margaret Bolce Brivanlou, Ph.D.
Partner
Ballard Spahr LLP

Thomas J. Campbell, Jr.
Partner
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Jennifer J. Chheda Ph.D.
Partner
Jones Day

Richard B. Emmons
Partner
Withersworldwide

Michael L. Fuller
Partner
Knobbe Martens

Kathleen Gersh
Co-Chair, Life Sciences
Loeb & Loeb LLP

Marsha Rose Gillentine, PhD
Director
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

James Matthew Gould
Of Counsel | Intellectual Property | Life Sciences
Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney P.C.

Keisha Hylton-Rodic
Managing Principal
Hylton-Rodic Law (Washington, DC)

Michael P. Kahn
Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Kurt R. Karst
Director
Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C

Chris Katopis
Principal
Association Counsel
IP Consultant
American Bar Association

Sherry M. Knowles, Esq.
Owner/Principal
Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies

Anne Elise Herold Li
Partner
Crowell & Moring LLP

Mercedes Meyer, Ph.D.
Attorney
Banner Witcoff

Jeffrey Morton, Ph.D.
Partner
Haynes and Boone, LLP

Kevin Noonan, Ph.D.
Partner | Co-Chair Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals Practice Group
McDonell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Caitlin E. Olwell
Counsel
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Alicia A. Russo
Partner
Venable LLP

Robert N. Sahr, PhD
Shareholder | Biotechnology
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Mary C. Till
Of Counsel
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
