Pablo Tapia

Senior Corporate Counsel

Microsoft

Yu-Ming Dammann

Senior Associate General Counsel (Head of IP)

Kite Pharma

Jeri Rouse Looney

General Counsel

Zeroavia

Rebecca Wais

Vice President Intellectual Property and Legal Affairs

Tessera Therapeutics

James Pooley

Independent Advisor

Rose James

Global Senior Director- IP

Expedia Group

Monica Baig-Silva

Vice President Intellectual Property

Thermo Fisher

Monica Baig-Silva (Vice President, Intellectual Property at Thermo Fisher Scientific) provides strategic counseling and intellectual property support for Thermo Fisher’s biotechnology, pharmaceutical and clinical trials businesses.  With over 15 years of experience, Monica routinely handles all matters of intellectual property protection.  In addition, Monica has extensive experience advising on matters related to IP infringement, employment agreements, contract negotiations, and cyber security.  A champion of trade secret protections, Monica founded Thermo Fisher’s trade secret and risk assessment committee for internally monitoring company trade secret practices. Monica is currently a member of the Intellectual Property Organization’s trade secret committee.

Katie Nolan-Stevaux

Senior Director- Associate General Counsel- Litigation

Genentech

Dimitri Kirimis

Principal Counsel

Cruise

Dimitri is Principal Counsel for Intellectual Property at Cruise, an autonomous vehicle (AV) company that offers rides in several cities, including San Francisco, California; Austin, Texas; and Phoenix, Arizona.  At Cruise, Dimitri handles patent licensing, patent defense strategies, and patent prosecution across a variety of AV technologies.

Prior to Cruise, Dimitri was a partner at several law firms and an attorney at a startup company focusing on wireless technologies. He is a Patent Attorney admitted to practice law in the State of California and before the USPTO.