Dr Gordon Lovis

Gordon has extensive hands-on experience of all aspects of the successful creation, development, management and commercialization of Intellectual assets. He has managed industrial R&D operations, set up and run a high technology company, held the positions of Senior Licensing Executive and Associate Director of Licensing at BTG and QED respectively, worked as a marketing consultant and set up and run the European subsidiary of a Japanese IP company. Prior to joining IP Asset Management, Gordon was Director of Intellectual Asset Management at ITI Energy (part of ITI Scotland Limited) a publicly-funded entity which identifies, funds, and commercializes (through IP) a wide range of research and development projects in the energy sector. In this role he designed and implemented effective IP management systems encompassing all aspects of the project cycle, including evaluation of pre-existing IP, identification and protection of new IP (in accordance with the commercial objectives of each project) and was directly involved in the design and implementation of commercialization strategies.

Dr Lovis holds a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Physicist, a Member of the Institute of Physics and a Member of the Institute of Knowledge Transfer.