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Anna Molony is Co-Founder of Two IP, where she leads the legal practice as well as finance and operations. Two IP is a firm built around a fee-share consultancy model, enabling experienced patent and trade mark attorneys to build their own practice within a structured, supported environment, and designed to better align client service, commercial outcomes and how attorneys work. Anna is a UK and European Patent Attorney with over 25 years’ experience across private practice, in-house roles and IP-led businesses, including founding and growing two patent firms and establishing an in-house patent function within a venture-backed technology company. Alongside her work in IP, she has held board roles with Bowls England, where she led the work on adopting Tier 3 of Sport England’s Code for Sports Governance, bringing a strong focus on effective governance and organisational structure.

Michael is a Partner in Gowling WLG’s intellectual property practice, based in Birmingham. He has extensive experience managing patent and design litigation in the English courts (from IPEC to the High Court) and coordinating international patent litigation. In his role as Head of Automotive IP (UK) Michael also has experience of advising clients on transactional issues and the development of IP & innovation strategies more generally, particularly in the automotive and engineering sectors.

Simeon is Communications Lead for the One IPO Transformation Programme. He has worked in public sector communications for 15 years, having previously worked in a variety of comms roles at the Office for National Statistics and UK Statistics Authority. Simeon joined the IPO in 2020 and acts as a key link between IPO developers and customers. In his spare time, Simeon is an avid gamer and a Tae Kwon-do instructor.

Helen is the friendly face of risk management and compliance. Her award-winning consultancy, Risk Evolves, helps growing businesses to realise the benefits of effective risk management and the value of compliance with data privacy, information security, H&S and Environment Social and Governance (ESG). This is delivered with a pragmatic, no jargon approach . Helen’s a great believer that consultants should ‘practice what they preach’ and the organisation has achieved a number of certifications itself and is one of just 1200 BCorp companies in the UK.

As well as supporting clients with compliance and risk management projects, Helen is a popular speaker and trainer. She also represents the needs of growing British businesses on several committees, including the FSB and the West Midlands Cyber Resilience Centre.

Tom Carver specialises in intellectual property law and has substantial multi-jurisdictional patent and design right litigation experience. His experience includes two cases that went to the UK Supreme Court. He is recommended by Legal 500 and in IAM Patent 1000, and an “IP Star” in the Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars Handbook. Named as an expert on the China IPR SME Helpdesk, he spent three years in Guangzhou, China, advising on enforcement of intellectual property rights in China and general commercial matters. Tom is also member of the Advisory Council for the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University, London.

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Anna Molony is Co-Founder of Two IP, where she leads the legal practice as well as finance and operations. Two IP is a firm built around a fee-share consultancy model, enabling experienced patent and trade mark attorneys to build their own practice within a structured, supported environment, and designed to better align client service, commercial outcomes and how attorneys work. Anna is a UK and European Patent Attorney with over 25 years’ experience across private practice, in-house roles and IP-led businesses, including founding and growing two patent firms and establishing an in-house patent function within a venture-backed technology company. Alongside her work in IP, she has held board roles with Bowls England, where she led the work on adopting Tier 3 of Sport England’s Code for Sports Governance, bringing a strong focus on effective governance and organisational structure.