Who We Are
We are a team of consultants with substantial experience in legal, financial and business fields. We can see a lot of companies have under-optimised intellectual assets. Our expertise is in bringing out the value of your "invisible gold" so your business can compete more effectively into today's world. We do this by creating strategies to make your IP the cornerstone of your business.
Management:
David Llewelyn
Chairman
Author of the seminal book, "Invisible Gold in Asia: Creating Wealth from Intellectual Property", David Llewelyn's mission is helping companies exploit their existing but under-utilised intellectual assets. For over 25 years he has been advising companies, from small to large, across the globe, how to manage their intellectual assets or their "invisible gold". These days, having taken up residence in Singapore after many years in London, he is especially enthusiastic about strategising for companies operating in the Asia Pacific.
Cited by Euromoney as one of the top 50 trade mark lawyers in the world, David is also a prolific writer on intellectual property and the author of professional textbooks such as Cornish, Llewelyn & Aplin's Intellectual Property and Kerly's Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names.
He also teaches at the Singapore Management University as a Visiting Professor and in King's College, London as the Professor of Intellectual Property Law and the Hong Kong University.
David holds an LL.B. in Law from Southampton University and a degree in Civil Law from Oxford University.
Charles Chow
Director
Charles has had over 25 years experience in banking, finance and private investment. After starting out with Chase Manhattan Bank, Charles become the founding equity research director of J Ballas & Co, a Singapore based regional stock broking firm which eventually merged with DBS to become DBS Vickers. Charles subsequently assumed senior roles in corporate finance, proprietary trading, equity market deal origination and business development. He originated many of the deals particularly involving the state privatization projects in Malaysia. Charles is a private investor himself and he also provides financial advisory services to a family office in Shanghai.
He lectures at the University of Auckland Business School and is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and the CPA Australia.
Jeremy Hemans
Director
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
Lyn has had ample experience in the corporate finance field as trained lawyer specializing in corporate finance and securities law. She started with Allen & Gledhill, before moving onto the 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 has advised both listed and private companies from diverse industries.
In addition, she has also worked with the Singapore Economic Development Board negotiating FTAs and also served as the Deputy Director of the IP Academy in Singapore.
She holds a BA (Hons) in Jurisprudence (Law) from Oxford University, UK.
Sharon Snodgrass
Director
Sharon is the day to day general manager for IPR-X including managing client relations. 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 as well as dealing with overall policy issues for the hotel sector. 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 has a M.Sc in Policy Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics, Economics from the University of Oxford, UK. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law from the IP Academy, Singapore.