About Us

Cambridge IP Team | Advisors | Scientific Advisory Board

Cambridge IP offers a range of products and services meeting the IP intelligence needs of the technology sector.

We are physically based in Cambridge, UK and in London, and have representation in Boston and Houston in the USA and Geneva in Switzerland. We Dwork with clients around the globe.

Our clients range in size from blue chip corporations to individual inventors. Uses of our work include: rapid patent search delivery, customised patent map development, informing freedom to operate decisions, developing IPR strategies and helping with sustainable intellectual property management.

Our rigorous methodology and systems enable us to gather and analyse complex patent datasets with consistently superior quality and delivery times.See information on our team below, also find out more about our Advisors

Cambridge IP Team

Ilian Iliev (CEO & co-founder)

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) To contact Ilian by email, click here

Quentin Tannock (Chairman & co-founder)

Quentin works primarily with clients in the life sciences and nanotechnology sectors.

Prior Experience:

Prior to CambridgeIP Quentin assisted a venture-backed nanotechnology holding company with a dozen startups develop and deliver their the IP research and IP portfolio strategy; established major university-corporate research alliances at Cambridge University; was a member of the Lambert Working group on Intellectual Property tasked by UK government to draft model contracts for industry-university collaborations; Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators IP & Electronic Media Group; co-founder of several startup companies including a chemical company and the online complaints resolution hub GetClosure. He is a Visitor at the Cambridge University Institute of Biotechnology.

Contributions to Industry:

Quentin has written articles in leading international commercial law journals, and has contributed chapters to textbooks on IP strategy, IP policy and commercialising early stage technologies. He presents regularly at conferences and online seminars.

Interests: Quentin is a keen fly-fisherman for wild trout and salmon.

Education: Law - LL.B (Hons), LL.M (Cambridge)

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Dr Robert Brady (Non-Executive Director)

Dr Robert Brady has joined the CambridgeIP Board as a non-Executive Director. Dr Brady acts as an active mentor and advisor for several growth companies, specializing in information technology and services. He is the current treasurer of Cambridge Angels investment group.

Prior Experience: Previously, Dr Brady was a Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge where he specialized in the field of physics. His published research includes two articles in Nature on computer optimization strategies and electrolysis of copper sulfate. In 1985 he began his commercial career with the founding of Brady plc. Brady plc has grown into a leading supplier of transaction and risk management software solutions to companies and banks operating in the metals and minerals, energy and 'soft' commodity sectors.

Interests: Real Tennis, Squash, Fell Walking.

Education: PhD Physics (Cambridge), MA Physics (Cambridge)

Mark Meyer (Business Development Manager – North America)

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 Poole (Representative in Boston)

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 Yossifov (Consultant and Business Development Manager - Switzerland)

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 Lallement (Senior Associate)

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 at Guy’s Hospital for 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 van der Vegt (Senior Associate)

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 effe ct 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 hiking, history, gardening and art.

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

Sarah Helm (Associate)

Sarah works on CleanTech and Environmental Projects, as well as buisness development.

Prior Experience

Sarah has her undergraduate background in Environmental Geosciences, which she has utilized by working in both the private sector in the energy industry and research and communication of natural resource management for an NGO. While studying for her MSc at Oxford she worked with WWF in Pakistan to research the cause of diminishing water quality of the Keenjhar Lake ecosystem, and offered sustainable management plans to help ensure livelihood security for the surrounding communities.

Interests: Sarah's interests include travel, wine and photography.

Education: MSc (Oxford); BSc Honours (Texas A&M University).

Dr Philip Coldrick (Associate Consultant)

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.

Advisors

David Cleevely - Advisor

David Cleevely (FREng, FIET) is the Chairman of CRFS, which he co-founded in July 2007, and the founder and former Chairman of telecoms consultancy Analysys (acquired by Datatec International in 2004). In 1998, he co-founded the web based antibody company Abcam (ABC.L) with Jonathan Milner and was Chairman until November 2009. In late 2004 he co-founded the 3G femto base station company, 3WayNetworks, which was sold to Airvana in April 2007. For 8 years until March 2009 he was a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board. From 2001 to 2008 he was a member of the Ministry of Defence Board overseeing information systems and services (DES-ISS, formerly the Defence Communications Services Agency). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the IET and he has recently held an Industrial Fellowship at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. In 2009 he was appointed the Founding Director and Executive Committee Member of the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.

He has invested in over 35 companies and is Chairman of four of them. He has been a prime mover behind Cambridge Network, co-founder of Cambridge Wireless, co-founder and Chairman of Cambridge Angels and is a member of the IET Communications Policy Panel.

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.

Scientific Advisory Board

Dr Daryl Boudreaux

Nanotechnology and materials science

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.

Professor Christopher Lowe (University of Cambridge)

Biotechnology and medical devices

Christopher R. Lowe received his B.Sc and Ph.D degrees in biochemistry from the University of Birmingham in 1967 and 1970 respectively. He has conducted post-doctoral research in Liverpool and Sweden and held a lectureship/senior lectureship at the University of Southampton. He is currently Director of the Institute of Biotechnology and Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of Trinity College and has been awarded a number of distinctions in his field over the past two decades, including ) the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement (1996) and the Jubilee Medal of the Chromatographic Society (2002) Prof Christopher Lowe has 250 publications, 7 monographs and 40 patents.

The principal focus of his biotechnology research programme over the last 30 years has been the high value - low volume sectors of pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals and diagnostics. He is actively involved in many collaborations worldwide, is on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals, sits on a number of research council, grant awarding and government committees, and is active in various legal and entrepreneurial roles.

Professor Robert K. Perrons (Queensland University of Technology)

Oil & gas technologies and technology and innovation management

Robert assists our Energy and Clean Technology team as well as contributing to our technology policy thought leadership work in various sectors.

Rob is currently an Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Previous to this appointment he has worked in a number of roles and locations for Shell International’s Exploration & Production division. He started his career in Shell’s Strategy & Economics team in 1997, and then worked for several years as a production engineer in the company’s overseas operations (offshore and onshore). He then left Shell for three years to work as an Industrial Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, but re-joined Shell again in 2004 to become the company’s Executive Coordinator of R&D.

He graduated summa cum laude with a B.Eng. in mechanical engineering from McMaster University in Canada, where he was the class valedictorian. He also earned a S.M. degree in Technology & Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD in engineering from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. He is chartered as a C. Eng. (IMechE) in the UK, a Eur. Ing. in Europe, and a CPEng professional engineer in Australia. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and continues to stay connected to the University of Cambridge as an Affiliated Researcher.

Dr Philippe Rogueda (Monash University)

Pharmaceutical formulations and industrial chemistry

Philippe assists our Health and Life Sciences team, contributing his vast experience and knowledge from working in senior management at top companies in his field.

Philippe is an industry renowned Product Development Specialist with extensive experience of formulation science and device technologies working within global blue chip organisations. Areas of expertise include: driving innovative drug delivery from initial concept through to product development in oral and inhaled technologies through sPoC to Phase III; creating innovative research techniques, adapting technologies from alternative industry sectors; and utilising personal international network to drive commercial success. Philippe has experience working in senior management roles in both Novartis and AstraZeneca, and is currently the CTO of VaryDose, an adjunct senior lecturer at Monash University and a visiting professor at the Kunming University of Science and Technology in China