Sophio Tatabadze
Managing Compliance Officer, Head of Sanctions Advisory, Financial Crime Compliance
Danske Bank
Emanuella Marrone
Group Trade Controls Compliance Manager
Vodafone Group Plc
Suzanne Renes
European Patent Attorney
Sanofi
Suzanne graduated Cum Laude from Amsterdam University College in 2015 with a BSc in Biomedical Sciences. In 2016 she graduated from University College London with an MSc in Pharmaceutical Formulation and Entrepreneurship. She is a qualified Dutch and European Patent Attorney that started her career in the Pharma team at NLO in 2018. Since January 2022 she has been employed in the Ablynx team of Sanofi in Ghent, where she has been working as a patent attorney specializing in immunoglobulin single variable domains (camelid-derived VHH). In her free time, she enjoys learning new languages, playing badminton and dancing salsa.
Christoph Rehfuess
Head of IP
Sotio
Margaret O’Gara
Head of Intellectual Property
Nanobiotix
Margaret is a French and European patent attorney currently heading IP at a late development stage biotech in Paris, called Nanobiotix.
She started her professional career as a researcher in the pharma industry in the UK and France, before moving into patents in 2004.
Since then she has worked both in-house and in IP firms and spent nearly ten years with Santarelli before taking the IP position at Nanobiotix early 2020. Margaret has considerable experience in all aspects of European patent prosecution, and post grant proceedings, as well as strategies for filing new applications . She is interested in data exclusivity and prolonging the protection of innovative products.
Bea McDonald
Head of IP
Vaccitech
Lyubka Petrova
Member of the Advisory Committee of the UPC and the European Judges Group for Mediation
Lyubka is an experienced judge and member of the Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria. She was a former Vice President of the Administrative court of Sofia, with a demonstrated history of working in the judiciary.
Lyubka was appointed as a Bulgarian representative and member of the Advisory Committee of the Unified Patent Court.
She is a member of GEMME and the European Judges Group for Mediation. She is also a visiting lecturer of CopyrightX – Harvard for Bulgaria.
Lyubka is skilled in Intellectual Property, Negotiation, Research, Adminstrative Litigation and Data Protection. Her legal background includes work as lawyer and legal adviser.
