Advisory Board

Pascal Hetzscholdt - DtecNet / MarkMonitor
In a time when there wasn’t a 3G network or anything remotely similar, Pascal was playing around with applications that allowed for streaming of audiovisual content between mobile phones on behalf of Dutch and Scandinavian telecom operators.

At the end of the nineties he joined the team of Cybercops at the Dutch National Police (KLPD) as a policy adviser, focusing on issues such as hacking, online child pornography and cyberterrorism.

In 2006 Pascal represented movie studios Warner Bros & NBC Universal as their Benelux Anti-Piracy Manager and it didn’t take long before the Motion Picture Association of America would have him represent all of the six major Hollywood studios as the MPAA’s Director of Content Protection for the EMEA region. There he aimed to address the challenging issue of large scale illegal online file sharing by making a plea for more enforcement, criminal prosecution and civil litigation, as well as promoting legal distribution, close cooperation with Internet Service Providers and operators of online services and better education. Specifically regarding the downsides of a lack of respect for another person’s, company’s or government’s (digital) property, no matter whether it concerns games, music, movies, books or financial or personal data.

Today Pascal is representing Dtecnet, a MarkMonitor company, as their Anti-Piracy Specialist for the EMEA region. Dtecnet is a global anti-piracy company which works with the largest rights holders in the world, in more than 25 countries worldwide, covering industries such as motion pictures, music, software, games and law enforcement. MarkMonitor, the leading global provider of brand protection for the enterprise, offers solutions that safeguard brands, reputations and revenues from ever-evolving online risks. The company’s exclusive access to data, combined with its real-time prevention, detection and response capabilities, enables a more secure Internet for enterprises as well as their customers. More than half the Fortune 100 depend on MarkMonitor to help safeguard their brands online.

Tim J. Kuik - BREIN
Mr T. J. Kuik is an international entertainment and Intellectual Property (IP) lawyer. Since 1999 he is the managing director of the BREIN foundation and developed the optical disc and internet content protection strategy for the entertainment industry in the Netherlands. BREIN is the Dutch private content protection and enforcement organisation for authors, performing artists, publishers, producers and distributors of music, film, games and books. Its strategies are recognized as exemplary by international and national enforcement programs.

Over the last years BREIN has been responsible for several thousand case files per annum of which around 85% concern internet piracy. BREIN’s civil enforcement focus is on the take down of illegal intermediaries making structural use of the availability of unauthorized copyright protected content.

Kuik graduated at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 1982 in Dutch Law with specialisation in Intellectual and Industrial Property. As a law student he created the enforcement work of Burafo, the newly formed legal aid bureau for professional photographers.

After his study he worked as counsel in business and legal affairs for CIC Video International, a world-wide home video joint-venture between the motion picture studios Paramount and Universal, based in Amsterdam and London.

In 1992 he became vice-president and regional director of the Motion Pictures Association (MPA) in Brussels representing the major Hollywood studios, where he created and supervised 33 national anti-piracy organisations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

From 1996 he was senior vice president and worldwide director of the MPA/MPAA anti-piracy program based in Los Angeles, supervising 69 national organisations throughout the world, including the US.

In 1999 Kuik became managing director of the newly formed BREIN in the Netherlands which unites the content protection programs for music, film, games and books. Kuik also headed the Dutch Special Criminal Investigation Authority BumaStemra (ODBS), i.e. the Intellectual Property crime unit in the Netherlands, from 1999 until 2003 when it transferred to the public law enforcement agency for fiscal and economic crime FIOD-ECD. Under his tenure the share of organized crime in IP fraud in the Netherlands decreased with over 80 percent.

Thomas Dillon - Lawyer & Public Policy Consultant
Thomas Dillon is a lawyer and public policy consultant. After practising at the English Bar, he worked for the Motion Picture Association in Brussels for 8 years, leaving in 2009 as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, EMEA. In 2009 he set up his own consultancy practice in London, through which he supplies legal and managerial services in both the content and private equity sectors.

He took his bachelor degree at Queens’ College, Cambridge and his MBA at Sir John Cass Business School, City of London. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the California Bar.

Thomas Dillon is a director of the Film Agency for Wales and sits on the London committee of the Royal Television Society. He is chairman of Creative Advantage Fund, a regional venture capital fund for the creative industries. He is a member of BAFTA.

James Bevan - Vandagraf International Limited
James has approaching 25 years experience in the packaging and labels sector, during 20 years of which, he has been actively engaged in international consultancy projects.

He has numerous years experience, researching, analysing and writing techno-economic reports, primarily in the packaging / logistics field continuing to building on skills acquired with the Battelle Institute in Geneva during the early 1980s.

Prior to founding Vandagraf International in 2002, James worked with Mike Fairley at Labels & Labeling Consultancy since 1998. During this period James and Mike have worked together as co-Authors on a series of confidential dedicated single client Consultancy assignments and also several multi-client studies.

James is also a Director of World Wide Security Exchange Limited, a web-site based information source, founded by Mike Fairley.

James started his career with the Metal Box Company in England as an engineering graduate in 1974 (BSc hons University of Southampton). He held several positions with Metal Box over seven years with the company and left to complete an MBA at Insead in France. He then joined the Battelle Institute in Geneva and worked on a series of international techno-economic studies in packaging and related areas over a period of around 4 years.

Setting up later as an independent consultant based in Switzerland for several more years, continuing to carry out packaging / logistics related consultancy assignments for major brand owners in the food processing, tobacco and other market sectors, including Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle, Philip Morris and Serono.

He then carried out a three year assignment with Energizer / Eveready, prior to returning to the United Kingdom to join Labels & Labeling Consultancy.

Guido Baumgartner - COTY Germany GMBH
Guido, Immediate Past Chair of the MARQUES Council is Head of the Department Global Brand Protection at Lancaster Group GmbH. His area of responsibility is to enforce selective distribution and brand protection for the whole Lancaster Group.

Guido qualified at the Universities of Heidelberg and Lausanne. He is a member in various industry associations and chairs the working group on Selective Distribution and Law of the German Brand Association.