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Dr Bobby Mukherjee, Chief Counsel, IP & Technology Law – BAE Systems plc and Past President (2012-2014) of the IP Federation. He was the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) President for 2025. He previously served and currently sits on CIPA Council, and chaired the CIPA Internal Governance Committee in its formative stage.

Bobby is a qualified UK and European patent attorney with over 28 years’ experience of IP gained in private practice and at BAE Systems plc. He is currently the Head of IP (2009 -) at BAE Systems plc (a FTSE 30 company), which has one of the largest in-house IP teams in the UK.

Bobby has been named a Corporate IP Star by Managing Intellectual Property every year since 2015.

Alicia graduated from the University of Leeds with an honours degree in Colour and Polymer Chemistry and was awarded a PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry for her research in the area of photochromics.

Her research included altering the molecular structure of naphthopyrans to develop predictive techniques for producing molecules of tailored wavelengths for use in the ophthalmic industry and resulted in seven published scientific papers.

Currently, Alicia works particularly in the fields of chemistry, dyes and pigments photochromic materials, medical devices, laboratory consumables, toys, clothing, oil & gas and natural sciences in general.

Alicia is a Chartered Patent Attorney, a European Patent Attorney and a Chartered UK Trade Mark Attorney, having won the Payne/Bennett Memorial Award for scoring the highest mark in the UK for one of her Final Trade Mark examination papers.

Alicia has also obtained the Intellectual Property Litigation and Advocacy Certificate at Nottingham Trent University which enables her to represent clients directly before the High Court.

Alongside sitting on the Council for the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys’ as a Past President for 2022 and being an active member of their Trade Marks and Design & Copyright Committees, Alicia also sits on the Council of FICPI-UK as treasurer and the Council of EPI.

In her spare time Alicia enjoys crafting in particular knitting and crochet and she’s often found with a ball of wool and needles around her person, she also enjoys tinkering with cars and has rebuilt a couple of rotary car engines in her front room!

Pawel (Pav) Piotrowicz is an attorney in Venner Shipley’s Electronics, Software and Communications team with over 25 years’ experience, and is the firm’s former Managing Partner. Pav played a central role in Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) G1/19 (Pedestrian Simulation), for which he won the Managing IP award for European Impact Case of the Year in 2022.

Freddy Guemeni is Associate Director of IP Strategy and Intelligence at the University of Manchester Innovation Factory, where he leads IP Services and supports the senior leadership team in shaping the organisation’s approach to intellectual property. His work focuses on integrating IP and innovation intelligence across the commercialisation pipeline to support informed decision-making, value creation and strategic differentiation.

A qualified European Patent Attorney with over a decade of experience in research commercialisation and strategic IP management, Freddy oversees the University’s IP portfolio and external patent counsel network. He was listed in the IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists in 2024 and 2025.

Freddy began his career drafting medicinal chemistry patents in the biopharma sector before moving into university technology transfer and innovation consultancy roles, including at Imperial Innovations, the NIHR and Inventya. He holds the Master of Intellectual Property Law and Management from CEIPI, Université de Strasbourg, co-developed with the European Patent Office.