Ilian works with clients in the life sciences, energy and telecom sectors.

Prior Experience:
Prior to CambridgeIP Ilian was a co-founder of an award-winning medical diagnostics university startup. Since 2001 Ilian has also provided strategic advice to blue chip companies (including a Top 5 global corporate law firm), and technology companies and startups. He has advised on innovation policy in the UK, South Africa and Bulgaria. In 1997-2001 he co-founded and managed a 100 employee family business in the electrical industry.

Contributions to Industry:
Ilian is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs), a regular contributor to the Licensing Executive Society and has published widely in both academic and business media on the topics of innovation finance, science-industry technology transfer, service sector innovation and technology policy.

Interests: Ilian is an avid snowboarder and chess player.

Education: PhD Candidate (Cantab), MCom (Wits), BA Honours (Wits)

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Angus leads CambridgeIP’s technology development.

Prior Experience: Angus brings over twenty years experience of Product Management and Product Marketing holding senior roles at Sun, Lotus, Microsoft and Oracle after which he consulted for BT where he ran the product team for their Microsoft based managed collaboration services. Since then Angus held senior global product management roles at a number of startup software companies helping them to achieve their goals. Most recently two of the startups he has worked with have been acquired by NASDAQ quoted companies.

Interests: Angus is a Porsche 928 enthusiast and maintains a Porsche 928 site.

Mark leads our engagements with USA based clients, and he has a special focus on the Energy sector. He operates from offices in the Oklahoma City and Houston metro areas.

Prior Experience:
Mark has more than 20 years of business development experience in the energy sector consulting with a broad array of firms from Global 500 companies to individual inventors. Prior roles have included VP and Director level assignments at independent oil & gas companies, international oil companies, energy sector start-ups and high tech firms setting strategy, growing revenue and raising capital. Mark has been recognised by Harvard Business Review, Gartner Group and IBM Corporation for best practices in business transformation and business development.

Interests: Mark is also an amateur astronomer with Newtonian and Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes.

Education: BS in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

Ralph is CambridgeIP’s representative in Boston, and assists CambridgeIP with business development on the US East Cost, and broader strategic engagements.

Prior Experience:
Ralph Poole has extensive executive experience leading Knowledge Management, Executive Education, Business Research and consulting projects in global companies. He held senior executive positions in four of the world's premier management consulting and IT consulting firms: Boston Consulting Group, Bain &Company, Ernst &Young LLP, and Capgemini (a French IT consultancy). At Bain he was responsible for business research, knowledge management and learning from Associate Consultant through Partner. At Ernst &Young and Capgemini, he created the Centre for Business Knowledge and, as Chief Knowledge Officer, led the effort to combine Knowledge, Learning and Methods to improve consultant skills, make learning delivery cost effective and to guide the efficient execution of projects. With projects of this magnitude, all of his interventions involve technology implementation and significant change management components. Ralph is an expert at managing change in large geographically dispersed global organizations. In addition, Ralph led new product and service innovation programs in global companies and now consults and trains on implementing innovation strategies.

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Vladimir leads our engagements with clients based in Switzerland, as well as clients in Germany, Eastern Europe and Russia. He has a special focus on Innovation and Transfer of Technology related projects and relationships with patent offices.

Prior Experience:
Vladimir has more than 35 years of experience in intellectual property, transfer of technology, licensing, innovation and IP infrastructure development. Prior roles have included licensing executive, project manager and director at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), where he has had numerous assignments related to developing national and regional IP information and Innovation promotion systems in countries of Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caribbean.

Vladimir is an IP practitioner and member of the Licensing Executives Society -Switzerland and has a vast experience in lecturing on IP, innovation, IP information and technology transfer subjects in many countries worldwide.

Interests: Vladimir is interested in literature, history and archeology, classical music and is an avid skier.

Education: Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Mining and Geology in Sofia, Bulgaria; Postgraduate Degree in IP Management from the Sofia Technical University and Postgraduate Degree in International Economic Relations from the All Union Academy of Foreign Trade in Moscow.

Arthur focuses on patent mapping and broader research to support our life sciences clients.

Prior Experience:
In his past work Arthur led the execution of a turnaround strategy for a high-growth international chemicals industry company, with sites in France and California. He helped start-up a biochemical division by gathering a strong team, forecasting the company activity in South-East Asia and Latin America and implementing the business plan. While working on his MSc at Guy’s Hospital, King’s College he found the best protocol to extract the streptococcal antigen I/II (SA I/II), a major cell surface glycoprotein of Streptococcus mutans from strawberry leaves to mass produce it. Arthur is also involved in several sailing communities and is a connoisseur of fine wine.

Education: MBA (AIT), MIM (Ceram), MSc Molecular Biology (UPS)

Helena focuses on patent mapping and broader research to support our software and engineering-based technology clients.

Prior Experience:
Trained as an applied mathematician, during her MPhil Helena was part of an inter-European research training network where she created simple earth system models to analyse the effect of biogeochemical feedbacks on climate change. Prior to that Helena completed an MSc (UCT) where she was responsible for analysing the mechanical behaviour of a novel biomedical device proposed by a leading American-based pharmaceutical company.

Interests: Helena’s interests include gardening, reading history and jewellery making.

Education: MPhil (Cantab), MSc(med) (UCT), BSc Honours (UPE)

Sarah Helm (Associate)

Phil leads CambridgeIP’s efforts in the printing, imaging and printed electronics sectors.

Prior Experience:
Phil is an experienced Intellectual Property Manager, Project Manager and Research Scientist. He became a Senior Associate of CambridgeIP after 27 years in Kodak Ltd and Kodak European Research where he developed the commercial and project management skills to bring innovative concepts from laboratory through manufacture to become successful products, primarily in printing and printed circuit board businesses. In this time, he also was named inventor on ten patents.

Phil also assumed responsibility for the IP management of Eastman Kodak’s Black and White technology platform, which involved the management of a patent portfolio in excess of three hundred patent families. This responsibility involved ensuring new IP was a strategic fit with the corporate portfolio, conducting prior art searches, providing patent landscape mapping for strategic planning and liaison with the patent group for new filings and renewal decisions.

Daryl assists our nanotechnology and University Technology Transfer Office clients, contributing a wealth of science and technology transfer expertise.

Prior Experience: Daryl established and was Director, Office of Technology Transfer at Rice University in Houston, Texas for six years (from 1998 — 2004), where he managed Rice's technology licensing and business development activities. In this period he founded and funded 9 nanotechnology based companies & raised the visibility of Rice's IP portfolio to #1 in value in the US. Prior to the Rice assignment, Daryl established and directed the Office of Technology Transfer at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. Daryl is an active member of AUTM and served on its Board of Trustees as Vice President for Professional Development from 2004-6.

After leaving Rice University Daryl was a Partner & Chief Scientific Officer at NanoHoldings LLC for 4 years (April 2004 to December 2008). His primary role was identifying and qualifying early stage investment opportunities, and was also involved in subsequent IP negotiations with the TTOs of major US universities for the ten-plus concluded investments. Since leaving NanoHoldings, Daryl has a busy consulting practice helping companies and universities with commercialization decisions on nanotechnology enabled innovations.

Advisors

Peter Harverson - Advisor

 

Peter Harverson is a member of the CambridgeIP Advisory Board.  Peter Harverson has held a number of senior executive roles at NASDAQ/NYSE companies such as Texas Instruments, Intel Corp, Daisy Systems, Valid Logic, Cadence Design Systems and Sun Microsystems. Notably, while at Sun Microsystems he headed the entire development of the companies European Corporate Accounts programme.  More recently Peter Harverson has used his technical background and extensive experience of the technology market to assist in the operational management of numerous growth companies. Peter Harverson currently acts as non-executive director to Ubisense Ltd, Aspex Seminconductor Holdings Ltd, CRFS Ltd and as an advisor to Pulsic Ltd.

Walter Herriot, OBE - Advisor

Walter was Cambridge Evening News Businessman of the Year in 2001. In 2007 he received the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion. In 1999 Walter received an OBE for “Service to businesses in the East of England. In 1999 Walter received an OBE for “Service to businesses in the East of England”.

Walter was Director of St John’s Innovation Centre Cambridge from 1990 to 2009. Prior to that he worked at Barclays Bank and was instrumental in facilitating the establishment of the Cambridge Phenomenon: in its crucial start-up stage from 1978-1985. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire.

Prof Nelson Phillips - Advisor

Professor Phillips is the Head of the Organization and Management Group at Imperial College Business School as well as the Director of Executive Education. Prior to joining Imperial College Business School, he was the Beckwith Professor of Management Studies at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2005 and an Associate Professor in the Strategy and Organisation Area at McGill University in Montreal, Canada from 1993 to 2002. While on sabbatical in 2000/2001, Professor Phillips spent six months as the Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas 21 Fellow at Melbourne University in Melbourne, Australia and six months as a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Professor Phillips completed his PhD in Organisational Analysis from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1995.

His research interests include technology strategy, knowledge management, international management, organizational forgetting, discourse methods, and entrepreneurship and family business. He has published more than 60 academic articles and book chapters. Professor Phillips has taught a range of courses in strategy and organisation theory at the undergraduate and graduate level. He also teaches widely internationally including regular courses in the EMBA course at Chongqing University in Chongqing, China and in McGill University's MBA program in Tokyo. In addition, he has been very active in executive education where he has been involved in program design and delivery for a wide range of clients including Allen & Overy, Deutsche Bank, BT, ARM, Shell, and the Royal Bank of Canada.