David Llewelyn
Chairman
dllewelyn@ipr-x.com.sg

David is one of the top Intellectual Property lawyers in the world, having been cited as one of the top 50 trade mark lawyers by Euromoney’s Managing Intellectual Property and named as a “leading individual” in intellectual property by Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession.

Having spent over 25 years in the field, David has built a global network of commercial and legal contacts and is a trusted advisor to leading companies in the world as well as guiding many small and medium sized companies in the management of their intellectual property.

David has served as a NATO fellow in 1979 and has been a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich, Germany for two years. He founded Llewelyn Zietman in 1994 and grew it into a 25 lawyer firm before joining White & Case in 1999 where he currently practices.

David is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at King’s College, London and has published and lectured extensively. He is also External Director of the IP Academy, Singapore. He co-authored a leading UK and European Union professional textbook Kerly’s Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names (14th Ed. 2005) and jointly authored Cornish & Llewelyn on Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights (6th ed. 2007). David holds an L.L.B. from Southampton University and a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford University, UK.

Charles Chow
CEO
heshenchow@ipr-x.com.sg

Charles has more than 15 years of experience in the banking and financial industry. He started his career in United Overseas Bank followed by Chase Manhattan Bank as a credit analyst where he was trained in all aspects of transactional risk analysis such as corporate lending, foreign exchange, trade financing, project syndication and investment banking.

Charles was headhunted to become the founding Investment Research Director of J Ballas & Co, a Singapore-based regional stock broking firm. He spent more than 10 years at the firm, assuming additional roles in corporate finance, proprietary trading, Malaysian market deal origination and business development. During this period, he developed expertise at promoting Asian-listed companies, taking them for frequent global investment road shows in London, New York and other global financial centres for equity capital raising. Charles grew with the firm and saw its merger with Citigroup to become Vickers Ballas & Co and eventually the sale to DBS Bank to become DBS Vickers in the S$800 million deal.

In 2004 he relocated to Shanghai to become the regional advisor to AFT Trust, a regional financial private equity group.

Charles holds a Bachelor of Commerce (1st Class Honours) from the University of Auckland, Australia.

Jeremy Hemans
Director
jhemans@ipr-x.com.sg

Jeremy currently concentrates on selecting and developing the investments for the IPR-X group. He covers the full range of industries from media and communications, beverages, bioinformatics and engineering developments. He was heavily involved in the purchase of the intellectual property rights to Pinky and Perky for IPR-X UK, the beloved singing piglet puppets from the UK media scene in the 1960s. Jeremy’s forte is a hands-on approach to investment and management in partnership with investee companies.

An accomplished entrepreneur, Jeremy has successfully developed, owned and managed commercial, residential and light industrial properties in Europe. Prior to this he managed a portfolio of investments spanning a range of industries from electronic engineering to medical and pharmaceuticals while working for a private equity firm in London after obtaining his Masters in Business Studies from the London Business School.

Jeremy also worked as a naval architect and marine seismologist after his graduation from the University of Southhampton, UK, (B.A. Ship Science, Engineering) before taking off for Latin America where he spent a year teaching jungle tribes the art of automechanics for Oxfam International, a worldwide charity.

Ng Lyn
Director
ng.lyn@ipr-x.com.sg

Lyn is an experienced negotiator having served as Head of International Agreements in the Singapore Economic Development Board. She oversaw the investment negotiations of bilateral free trade/investment guarantee agreements between Singapore and a number of countries such as China, India and Australia among others. She has also served in other capacities in the Singapore government most recently as the Deputy Director of the IP Academy where she was responsible for business development and the overall day to day management.

As a trained lawyer specializing in corporate finance and securities law, Lyn has had ample experience in the legal as well as financial services industry. After started out in 1993 as a lawyer with Allen & Gledhill, she worked in the corporate finance divisions of Vickers Ballas & Co Pte Ltd (now DBS Vickers), Citigroup Investment Bank and eventually as AVP, Corporate Finance in Salomon Smith Barney where she was primarily involved in equity capital market transactions. She successfully managed the IPOs of several companies (both local and foreign) on the SGX/HKSE/NYSE, private placements, takeovers, mergers and acquisitions and the provision of general corporate advice to both listed and private companies from diverse industries ranging from manufacturing, telecommunications, printing, ecommerce, electronics to transportation companies.

She holds a BA (Hons) in Jurisprudence (Law) from Oxford University, UK. She is also a Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple) and an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Sharon Snodgrass
Director
sharon@ipr-x.com.sg

Sharon focuses particularly on the evaluation and selection of investments in this region. In addition, she carries out the day-to-day management of the development work with the investee companies.

She has an extensive background in working for the Singapore government ranging from defence-related positions to tourism. In the latter, her work has been in research and development of technology for the tourism trade including the setting up of pioneer test projects with industry partners. Her work with the Singapore Tourism board has also involved the development of the hotel and spa industry in Singapore both in terms of overall policies such as land policy as well as schemes to attract and retain well known multinational hotel management regional headquarters in Singapore. Her work with the then-fledging spa industry in Singapore paved the way for niche spa players to enter the industry in Singapore. She has also served as a journalist for one of the major national dailies in Singapore covering political news in Singapore for a year.

She was educated in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.Sc. Policy Economics) and in the University of Oxford, UK, (BA (Hons.) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics). She also has a Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law from the National University of Singapore.