Ruth Ma Swilling
Mike Binns
Micheal Binns is Head of Patent Portfolio Strategy for Meta’s Family of Apps and an Associate General Counsel on the Patent, Licensing, and Open Source team at Meta, formerly Facebook. Michael also leads Meta’s IP Trade Secret and Design Patent protection strategies. As a registered patent attorney, Mike’s helped protect global copyrights and trademarks in addition to patent rights for a wide range of industries. At present, he advises on global IP portfolio strategy and risk mitigation related the future of social networking, AR/VR, and the metaverse. Micheal has and continues to protect the knowledge, systems, and inventions that are business-critical drivers of revenue.
Before joining Facebook, Micheal was the Atlanta Office Development Partner at Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, where his experience included the litigation, counseling, and prosecution of all forms of intellectual property related to a variety of industries and technologies.
Matthew Murphy
Mark Abumeri
Dharmesh Jani
Lana Gladstein
Matt Jones
Matt Jones joined Rambus in 2019 and currently serves as the Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Rambus. He is responsible for development and growth of the company’s silicon and IP products, driving high-performance, secured memory and interconnect architectural innovation in Data Center and Edge Connectivity applications. Prior to his current role, Matt served as General Manager for the company’s IP Cores business unit. Before joining Rambus, Matt held various product line management and marketing positions for microprocessor, connectivity, and power management products over a twenty-four-year career at IDT, later acquired by Renesas. Matt holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University.
Julie Lappin
Julie is a Senior IP Counsel at Nestlé S.A. She has worked for multiple business units in her 14+ year career with Nestlé, including Coffee, Nestlé Health Science, and PetCare. Julie significantly contributed to developing and deploying Nestlé's trade secret protection program. Before joining Nestle, she was a Corporate Patent Counsel at Pfizer Inc.
