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GLOBAL LEGAL & IP HYBRID CONFERENCE

Toronto Canada l January 2025

Join us at the LexTalk World Global Legal & IP Conference on January 2025, where distinguished Toronto Canada speakers will share their insights and knowledge. This conference is your opportunity to meet top players in the legal field, grow your career, and expand your network in a rapidly evolving legal landscape.

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Monica Romelina Sijabat

Founder & Managing Partner at MRS Business Professional Consulting

Founder & Managing Partner at MRS Business Professional Consulting, Monica Romelina Sijabat, has a profession as a Tax Attorney and Tax Consultant. Monica has more than 15 years of successful experience at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia as well as the Tax Court-Republic of Indonesia as Legal Counsel for various multi-national companies, especially from developed countries such as the USA, Europe, & Asia. Monica is also a Lecturer in Economics & Tax at the University of Indonesia-Faculty of Economics & Business. Apart from being a Legal Counsel & Professor, she is also a Chartered Accountant and a Principal Member of the Indonesian Accountants Association.
Monica's educational background includes being an alumna of the Economics faculty at the University of Indonesia and also an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education in Economic Development as of June 2020. Her study focus is in the field of Taxation & Economics. Monica has also completed several Executive Education Programs at Harvard Business School since 2016. Monica has built her business with a high reputation & integrity since 2017 with the name MRS Business Professional Consulting, with a team consisting of alumni from prestigious universities in Indonesia and located in Washington DC, USA, and Indonesia.
Monica is the recipient of the prestigious Award for winning the Taxation Educational Video Competition at the Lecturer level throughout Indonesia, organized by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia-Directorate General of Taxes & the Indonesian Accountants Association. She is also the recipient of the prestigious University of Indonesia research grant award in Economic Cooperative at the Lecturer level, representing the Faculty of Economics & Business. Monica has been honored with the Lex-Falcon Global Awards 2024 and Hall of Fame 2024 for her exceptional contributions in the field of Taxation, along with several other prestigious awards.

Harry Halikias

Sr. Director, Global Information Security
at Sony Music Publishing

With over 15 years of dedicated IT, Security, and Privacy service, Harry is an experienced business leader known for developing and implementing robust cybersecurity and privacy strategies. His expertise is underpinned by a Master's degree in cybersecurity and industry-leading certifications, including CISSP and CIPP/US, complemented by a continuous learning journey through professional development and industry engagement.
A deep-seated commitment to privacy as a fundamental right is at the core of Harry’s professional ethos. Driven by this conviction, Harry creates security programs that protect and add substantial value to organizations. These initiatives ensure the safety of customer and employee data while aligning with business goals. His approach is defined by proactive risk management, focusing on anticipating and mitigating emerging threats in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Nandini Nair

Global General Counsel
at L&T Technology Services Limited

Nandini Nair is Global General Counsel of L&T Technology Service LTD, a global leading pure-play engineering services company. She began her legal career in 1999 in a small law firm in NYC, focusing on business immigration and eventually moved to the largest immigration firm in the world, where she worked with premier multinational corporations across various industries on compliance, investigations, audits, mergers and acquisitions and was a strategic partner.

In 2004, Nandini began her own legal practice, which she managed for 13 years, where she grew her firm into a two million dollar book of business. She eventually took the practice back to Big Law, where she was Partner in the New Jersey office for Greenspoon Marder, a top 200 law firm in the United States.

Nandini has written numerous articles, lectured nationally and made several TV appearances on immigration and diversity issues to a variety of organizations. She wrote and starred in a TV show on TV Asia called Bridge to Immigration. She was recognized as a premier attorney in 2021 and 2022 by Chambers & Partners USA for New Jersey Immigration, by the New Jersey Law Journal as a finalist for 2021 Attorney of the Year, NJBIZ as a 2021 Leaders in Law, by the New Jersey Law Journal as a 2020 Top Women in Law and shortlisted for Diversity & Inclusion Lawyer of the Year by Chambers Diversity & Inclusion. In 2019, she was recognized as an NJLJ “Trailblazer,” an NLJ “Immigration Law Trailblazer” and among Profiles in Diversity Journal’s “Women Worth Watching”. She is also a Board Member and Volunteer for Xavier Mission, a non-profit impact organization in New York City that feeds the homeless and provides financial assistance to those in need.

Dr. Aman Trehan

Chief Portfolio, BD Licensing & IP Officer
at Somerset Therapeutics LLC/ Somerset Pharma

As the Chief Product Portfolio, BD & IP Officer at Somerset Group Companies, Dr. Trehan has over 18 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He is responsible for overseeing all activities related to company’s product portfolio including product selection and product strategy, business development & licensing deals, intellectual property including patent portfolio, patent strategies and Hatch Waxman litigations and coordinating all R&D projects. He began his career at Ranbaxy Labs and then held leadership positions at Wockhardt, Alembic, Zydus, Novel Labs and Lupin. Dr. Trehan has received the prestigious Hatch Waxman Impact Case of the Year award and “Top 25 IP Leaders award” two times in a row highlighting his significant contributions to the field. Dr. Trehan holds a Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutics and has obtained certification in Prescription Drug Regulations, Cost, and Access from Harvard University.

Orrie Dinstein

Global Chief Privacy Officer
at Marsh McLennan

Orrie Dinstein is the Global Chief Privacy Officer at Marsh McLennan, a global professional services company operating in over 130 countries around the world. He has global responsibility for privacy and data protection, working closely with the Legal, Compliance, IT and Information Security teams, as well as other functions. Prior to joining Marsh McLennan, Orrie was the Chief Privacy Officer at GE Capital.

Orrie received an LL.M. in intellectual property from NYU School of Law and is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Law. He is a member of the New York State Bar and the Israel Bar. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and a frequent speaker on privacy, AI, cybersecurity and emerging technologies

Eugene Weitz

Legal Lead, Data & Innovation -
Office of the General
Counsel at DXC Technology

Eugene Weitz is a highly accomplished global corporate attorney and business executive, known for his leadership in transforming legal departments through strategic innovation in people, data, processes, and technology. With over five years of recent experience as DXC Technology’s Legal Lead for Data & Innovation, Eugene has played a pivotal role in driving the digital transformation of DXC’s Legal Department. He has spearheaded initiatives in Global Legal Department Knowledge Management, generative AI, and cybersecurity policy, advising the General Counsel on matters ranging from DXC’s participation in the United Nations OEWG, to active roles in the Tech Accord and Paris Call working groups. He also led the Legal Department’s Learning & Professional Development program, enabling a global team of 400+ legal professionals to tackle emerging challenges in all aspects of technology law.

Prior to DXC, Eugene held senior legal positions including Regional General Counsel roles at SAI Global and Atos, and served on DLA Piper’s Data Protection, Privacy & Security Team. His deep expertise spans technology law, digital transformation, data privacy, and cybersecurity.

Eugene is also an active contributor to the broader legal industry, having served as a Board Member for the ACC New Jersey chapter and is also a longstanding member of ITechLaw. His involvement in ITechLaw includes positions on the Board of Directors, Chair of the Global In-House Lawyer Committee, and currently serves as Co-Chair of ITechLaw’s Ambassador Program.

Flavia Mitri

Director, Product & Privacy Counsel
at Bonterra

Flavia Mitri holds a JD from PUC-Rio and an LL.M from NYU School of Law. Originally from Brazil, she now resides in New York. With over a decade of experience leading legal matters for Intel in South America and seven years as Uber’s Global Privacy Director, Flavia currently serves as Director, Product & Privacy Counsel at Bonterra.”

Michael G. Gordon

Director & Legal Counsel - US Innovative
Medicines & Biosimilars Division
at Teva Pharmaceuticals

An award-winning attorney, professor, author and mentor - with expertise spanning the areas of law, business, academia, leadership development, & transformational change - Michael G. Gordon has become a sought-after resource at some of the largest corporations & educational institutions in the world, cultivating a reputation as one of the top voices in leadership development and personal growth.

Applying his unique motivational leadership style, educational background, entrepreneurial spirit, and inherent passion for creativity to each and every of his endeavors, Michael has established a successful career spanning a variety of different, but interconnected disciplines.

Currently, Michael is Director & Legal Counsel to Teva Pharmaceuticals and its Innovative Medicines & Biosimilars Division, representing Teva’s Neuroscience Division and its most-profitable & successful portfolio of branded products treating schizophrenia, migraine, TD, MS, & more. As a regulatory & compliance attorney, Michael has practiced in both the pharmaceutical & financial services sectors for more than 15 years, and has built a proven track record of harmonizing competing business & legal needs while pioneering legal advancement, while always aiming to mentor & advance his colleagues & company.

Before Teva, Michael was corporate officer & lead in-house counsel at ADP, Inc., and practiced law at an Amlaw100 law firm - counseling financial institutions, broker-dealers, RIAs & private funds.

Outside of his legal practice, Michael has followed his life-long passion of learning, teaching, & helping others – embracing these opportunities whenever possible and perfecting them as a Professor at Seton Hall University and certified leadership coach at the nation’s #1 ranked Leadership Institute. Not only awarded "Professor of the Year" at Seton Hall, Michael was asked to create & teach his own full-year leadership & professional development program as well as lead an international leadership program across Europe’s top business & managerial universities.

Michael has since built a reputation as one of the top voices in the leadership development field – having been retained by several Fortune 500 companies and top universities to lead custom leadership programs or present on leadership, motivation & professional development.

Uniting these robust experiences, Michael authored his debut novel – an innovative and first-of-its-kind, fully-rhyming new children’s book that teaches leadership development and personal empowerment to a younger generation and strengthens the bonds between parents and their children. “The Six Simple Secrets to Being a Successful Kid” releases soon, and has opened an entirely new avenue for Michael to continue his impassioned efforts – having been booked for speaking engagements, readings, and assemblies designed around the tenants in his book.

Susan Zoch

General Counsel, Americas
at dentsu

Susan serves as General Counsel, Americas for dentsu. Susan leverages more than 25 years of legal experience across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including commercial transactions, privacy and data protection, technology, litigation, compliance, and human resources.

Susan joined dentsu through its acquisition of Merkle, where she was General Counsel. Prior to joining Merkle, Susan served in similar roles at Vertis Communications and was in private practice at BakerBotts in Washington DC. She clerked for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She holds a JD from The University of Texas School of Law, where she was Executive Editor of the Texas Law Review, and a BA from Rice University.

Monique Ferraro

Cyber Counsel at HSB

Monique Ferraro, CISSP, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, CPCU, is Cyber Counsel at Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance and Inspection Company, where she provides legal and technical expertise in support of Global Cyber Products. Ms. Ferraro's cybersecurity and privacy experience spans more than twenty-five years in digital forensics, e-discovery, information security and privacy. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Cyber Security and Data Privacy Law Program at Albany Law School and Western Connecticut State University in Cyber Security and the Homeland.

Monique obtained her law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law, her Master’s degree from Northeastern University in Criminal Justice and Bachelor’s from Western Connecticut State University.

She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Fellow of Information Privacy, Certified Information Privacy Professional/US (CIPP/US), Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU).

Monique worked for the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection for nineteen years, serving in several different roles. She was a founding member of the state’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Computer Crimes and Electronic Evidence Lab. She also wrote grants for and coordinated the design of a statewide and later regional criminal intelligence sharing network. She founded the state’s Family Violence Reporting Program and coordinated the sex offender registry. After retiring from state service and before joining HSB, she taught, had a private practice of law and a digital forensics and electronic evidence consulting firm.

She has taught at the undergraduate, graduate and law school level, teaching courses in privacy, cyber law, digital forensics, Criminal Justice, Women’s Studies and law.

She is a frequent speaker and writer on cyber and privacy issues.

Kristin Meister

Senior Counsel and Director of Litigation at IDEMIA

I am Senior Counsel and Director of Litigation at IDEMIA in charge of litigations, investigations, IP, data privacy, and trade compliance. I also cover contract review and negotiation as well as corporate law matters for the company. I reside in the Washington, DC area.

IDEMIA is a global technology company PE backed by Advent International, focusing on biometrics, cryptography, secure credentialing, secure transactions, and identity-related services. IDEMIA services both commercial as well as governmental entity clients.

I spent the first 7 years of my practice at two global defense firms followed by 6 years prosecuting securities class actions at Bernstein Litowitz. I then spent over 6 years managing a diverse international cross-border litigation docket, external governmental investigations and internal investigations, subpoenas, and other third-party requests at the New York branch of a global financial institution headquartered in France. I relocated to the Washington, DC area in 2023.

Marc Mandel

Senior Vice President &
General Counsel at EXOS

Marc Mandel is a three-time General Counsel with a background in technology and operations management. He currently serves as the General Counsel of Exos, a pioneer in human performance research dedicated to helping elite athletes and corporate employees to achieve their highest potential.

He also co-founded the legal technology SaaS company CCPATollFree.com, bringing privacy law compliance to Fortune 500 clients, where he led product design and sales.

Marc holds a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University and a J.D. from Tulane University, each earned magna cum laude.

David Hamilton

Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Fiserv

David Hamilton is Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Fiserv, the global fintech and payments company, responsible for global privacy, AI, and security issues. In this role he advises on and enhances Fiserv’s Global Privacy and Cybersecurity programs, including relating to incident response process and preparedness. David is Fiserv’s lead AI counsel, sitting on Fiserv’s AI Steering Committee and represents the legal team through Fiserv’s AI Acceleration Hub. David also advises product teams on privacy-by-design in Fiserv’s products and services throughout the organization, and acts as the primary privacy counsel to Clover, Fiserv’s point of sale business. David negotiates the data terms of the company’s most significant relationships, and works closely with Fiserv’s Data Commerce Solutions business on various data initiatives to help further grow the business. David engages in M&A diligence and litigation/regulatory issues, inquiries, and briefings impacting privacy, data and AI. David also advises and develops information on privacy matters to members of the company’s executive leadership team and coordinates closely with the Chief Privacy Officer and his compliance team to develop processes in compliance with numerous global privacy laws. David is a strategic business partner, helping to grow and support the business and counsel appropriate management of risk. He advises teams across the company at all levels.

David is a former litigator, having started his career at a New York based financial services litigation boutique law firm. David represented the largest US retail banks, fintechs and tech companies in litigation, class-action defense, and privacy and security matters. David has (successfully) argued appeals before New York’s state and federal courts, and defended banks in state and federal class actions.

Christopher Bowen

Corporate Counsel at
Google LLC

Christopher Bowen is an attorney with 19 years of experience, including with the U.S. Department of Justice, two AmLaw 50 law firms, IBM, and a space start-up. He primarily supports his clients' contracts with public sector entities, including Federal, State, and Local. Both as in-house and outside counsel, he has negotiated intellectual property and data privacy clauses with public sector customers as well as suppliers and integrators. He lives in Stony Brook, New York with his wife and two daughters.

Om Jahagirdar

Deputy General Counsel
at Amtrak

Om Jahagirdar is a Deputy General Counsel at Amtrak, handling all types of commercial transactions including real estate, finance, insurance, construction procurement, AI, and other corporate matters. He has additional experience with bankruptcy, mortgages, and lending. Prior to Amtrak, he worked at Freddie Mac and various lawfirms.

Kai Falkenberg

General Counsel at The Guardian US

Kai Falkenberg is General Counsel of The Guardian US, one of the top news sites in the US. She has more than 20 years’ experience in media law including M&A, data privacy, intellectual property, labour relations, compliance and litigation. Before joining the Guardian, Ms Falkenberg served as the chief legal officer of several privately-held media companies and as acting commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media Entertainment, overseeing the country’s largest municipal broadcast network and the regulation of all film and television production in the city. She also teaches media law as a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School.

Mushegh Manukyan

International Mediator and Arbitrator

Mushegh Manukyan is an international mediator and arbitrator, currently working with a global organization. Before, he served as a mediator at the D.C. Court of Appeals and the World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman and focused on encouraging mediation globally, especially in the context of investor-state disputes. He has extensive experience in mediation and arbitration and in representing foreign companies in various complex matters. Most recently, he practiced international dispute resolution at the Washington, D.C. office of a leading international arbitration law firm and was Senior Counsel at a Texas-based high-tech company, managing Russia and CIS, India, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Oceania legal matters for more than 10 subsidiaries of the company.

Mushegh was instrumental in establishing Armenia’s mediation system and is the author of Armenia’s first mediation laws. He founded the first private mediation and arbitration center in Armenia and mediated over 500 cases involving 90+ nationalities in Armenia, Massachusetts courts within the Harvard Mediation Program, the D.C. Court of Appeals, and beyond.

Mushegh holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Yerevan State University (Armenia), a Ph.D. in private international law from Russian State Social University (2009) in Moscow, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (2016).

Charles Blackburn

Former Assistant General Counsel and Commercial IP Lead at Microsoft Corporation

Charles Blackburn is recently the Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft, where he led the legal support for the company's AI and cloud services delivery units and developed its Commercial IP Center of Excellence. Prior to Microsoft, Charles has supported sales, partner, services, and product functions for publicly traded semiconductor and software companies. Charles holds degrees from Emory University and Georgetown University Law Center.

Brian Zeve

Technology Business Executive, Independent Consultant, ex-IBM

Hanna Madbak

Senior Director - IP Management at Adeia

Hanna Madbak has over two decades of experience managing intellectual property and advising senior executives on a wide range of legal issues, including technology transfers, intellectual property management and monetization, as well as general corporate and commercial matters. In addition to his extensive AMLaw100 experience, Hanna cofounded an IP boutique law firm and a patent licensing company in New York.

Hanna is currently the Senior Director of IP Management at Adeia. In this role, Hanna collaborates with the licensing team and the patent prosecution team to monetize and grow Adeia’s patent portfolio comprising over 13,000 patents and generating over $500 million in yearly revenue. Hanna is a technologist, an inventor and a forward-thinking IP strategist currently engaged in research in the field of generative AI and its application to patent portfolio management and monetization.

William Mansfield

Director of Intellectual Property at
ABRO Industries

William Mansfield is the Director of Intellectual Property for ABRO Industries, Inc. headquartered in South Bend, Indiana. ABRO exports a wide variety of household, automotive and light industrial goods such as glues, tapes and oils from the United States under the ABRO® brand to individuals in developing nations worldwide. While virtually unknown in Western Europe and the United States, ABRO® is a major brand name in countries such as Pakistan, Nigeria and Kosovo. As Director of Intellectual Property, Mr. Mansfield is in charge of protecting the over 2,000 trademarks ABRO has registered in over 175 countries. He has himself traveled to 59 foreign countries and handled matters in over 160. This involves coordinating the actions of attorneys, investigators, and government officials on six continents (and he is hoping for a case in Antarctica to arise one day as well).

Mr. Mansfield earned both his J.D. and M.B.A. from Indiana University. He is the Vice-Chair of the Quality Brands Protection Committee of China where he helps the group’s mission to provide support to international brands facing intellectual property issues in China. Mr. Mansfield also provides consulting services to small and medium-sized businesses facing counterfeiting and other intellectual property related difficulties through his company, Emergent IP Consulting, LLC. Finally, he is an adjunct professor of international business at the University of Saint Francis.