Archives: Speakers

Paolo Di Trapani (1962; PhD in physics in 1991) is Associate Professor of Optics at Insubria University in Como (IT), where he has developed and directed two experimental facilities based on high-power ultrashort pulse (ps-fs) lasers.

René Schumann is the Managing Director of Hochtief ViCon, a leading service provider for digitalisation of business processes and BIM with headquarters in Germany and projects in Europe, Middle East and Australia.

Harrie Temmink is currently Deputy Head of the Industrial Property and Fight Against Counterfeiting Unit Public at DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW), European Commission.
Harrie has a Dutch Law Degree and a Spanish Language and Literature Degree from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). He worked previously as a lecturer in Public Economic Law (1990-2000), at the Netherlands Competition Authority (1998-2000), as a Legal Secretary to the Court of Justice of the European Communities (2000-2003), at the Industrial Property Unit of DG Internal Market and Services (2003-2008), as a Member of Cabinet of Mrs Meglena Kuneva, European Commissioner for Consumer Affairs (2008-2010), and as Deputy Head of the Online and Postal Services Unit (2011-2014) and the Public Interest Services Unit (2014-2017).

Svetlana joined INCOPRO in 2015 and worked as Enforcement Analyst and then Brand Protection Team Leader before becoming a Principal Analyst in 2018. After obtaining degrees in international relations and law, Svetlana worked in tech and cybersecurity companies where she gained an understanding of internet technologies and developed online investigative skills. Having studied IP law, this knowledge has assisted Svetlana with building successful brand enforcement strategies for clients across fashion, fast moving consumer goods, e-commerce and media sectors. Svetlana is now managing the Brand Protection teams at INCOPRO ensuring innovative and creative approaches to the brand protection challenges faced by INCOPRO’s customers. Svetlana also advises on best enforcement practices across online platforms and being a native Russian speaker she specialises in enforcement of IP issues in Russian speaking countries.

Danae has over 10 years’ experience in the tech industry defining, developing and managing digital products and R&D solutions. Currently, she is in charge of defining and developing the company’s product portfolio. This includes Red Point’s IP monitoring and enforcement platform: one of the company’s core solution against brand abuse, which detects over 200,000 IP infringements every month.

Joost van Ooijen is Director Intellectual Property at AkzoNobel. Joost and his team are responsible for managing and protecting the AkzoNobel IP portfolio globally, handling a broad variety of IP agreements and handling the IP aspects of M&A projects. Prior to joining AkzoNobel, Joost worked as an all-round IP/IT lawyer at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, one of the leading law firms in the Netherlands. Joost is a regular speaker at seminars and events and acted as lecturer for various post-academic IP courses.

Matthew has worked in the consumer goods market since 2003 where he helped develop the GSS forum, predecessor to current show. Since 2014 he has been responsible for editorial for 4 trade magazines: Packaging Today, Converting Today, Beverage Packaging Innovation and Packaging & Converting Intelligence. Matthew has moderated roundtables at conferences on all aspects of packaging, supply chain and safety of protection of products.

Mike is a marketing veteran with almost 25 years of experience in marketing to the enterprise, government, and consumer markets. His background is the marketing of technology, telecommunications, and business to business products. Prior to joining DSS, Mike was the founder and managing partner of Marketative Consulting which he started in 2004. Marketative was a marketing consulting firm focused on building marketing programs based upon quantitative metrics for technology companies and startups. Mike has also served in a variety of marketing roles for emerging and Fortune 500 companies including marketing leadership positions with UUNET Technologies, Eyecast Corporation, and Cable & Wireless. In these organizations Mike was responsible for marketing strategy, brand management, product marketing, product management, and marketing communications.

At DSS, Mike is responsible for marketing and product management. He is tasked with gathering feedback from customers and prospects and distilling it into solutions which solve the difficult brand protection problems currently challenging the market.

Jim Reiman (Rí-man) has more than 40 years of experience in paper, packaging and printing. He spent the first half of his career at Westvaco (West-váyko) Corporation (now WestRock) in a variety of Sales and Marketing positions. He has worked in brand protection and product integrity since 2001 when he became Vice-President Sales & Marketing for Westvaco Brand Security. After a short time at DuPont Authentication Systems, Jim became Director of Sales for Sun Chemical Brand Protection in 2005. He and his coworkers at Sun Chemical have extensive experience protecting a wide range of consumer products globally.

Zihan has been working for Yellow Brand Protection for over six years, with time spent both at the Sweden and China office locations. She has been instrumental in building the largest Shanghai based brand protection team of highly skilled Client Managers and Analysts.

An expert on Chinese trademark law, Zihan has extensive knowledge in Chinese trademark protection, as well as patent and other intangible assets. She has also been involved in a number of successful online to offline cases where a brand’s intellectual property rights have been infringed. Zihan has close working relationships with many of the well-known Chinese online selling platforms, such as marketplaces and messaging apps, which proves extremely beneficial for supporting client’s brand protection programs.

As the Yellow Brand Protection Asia Director, Zihan continues to develop the business in Asia, by effectively providing global online brand protection schemes to clients from different industries.

Applying the state-of-the-art technology to clean the internet from IP infringements is Zihan’s ultimate aim.