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Nigel Jennings is a truly international patent attorney. Having been a Partner of Kilburn & Strode, one of Europe's leading patent attorney firms, for over 30 years, and an avid traveller, there are few people in the industry who don't know Nigel. Managing IP magazine recognised Nigel as an 'IP Star' for Trade Marks in their 2014 and 2016 IP Stars guide. Nigel has also been acknowledged in The Client Choice Awards 2015 for his UK patent work, amongst many other accolades.

When he heard about Billtrader, Nigel said "that's precisely the same idea I had ten years ago" and, recognising that Billtrader represented a clear solution to a long-felt industry need, Nigel immediately accepted our invitation to become Chairman of the Billtrader Board. We are delighted to have Nigel's very able assistance in shaping Billtrader's global expansion strategy.

Nigel has an Honours Degree in Engineering from Cambridge, is a European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney, a former Chartered UK Patent and Trade Mark Attorney and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, The Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office, the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys and many others.

David Madigan is the Executive General Manager of Griffith Hack, one of Australia's largest and most respected patent attorney firms. Prior to his appointment as EGM he was Griffith Hack's Chief Financial Officer for 13 years. In this role, he brought Griffith Hack's international currency strategy to a level of sophistication that was well-ahead of industry norms. When introduced to the Billtrader concept he immediately recognised that it had the potential to take Griffith Hack's management of currency issues to a whole new level and we are delighted to have his wisdom, vision and experience on the Billtrader board.

David holds a Batchelor of Business (Accounting) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and is a member of CPA Australia. He is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Ben has worked extensively with fast-growing businesses, specialising in Operations by delivering best-practice solutions in HR, finance, IT and customer delivery. As one of the early team members at inovia, the world-leading patent filing platform, Ben helped establish and run the business back-end, overseas growth and integration into new parent company RWS following the sale of the business. He is a Non-Executive Director at PractiFI, a business management platform for financial advice and superannuation with clients across Australia, USA and Europe. Ben is excited to be joining Billtrader and bringing together his interests in IP and Fintech.

Ben holds a Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney, and earned his IP stripes from a stint as a Patent Examiner at IP Australia many moons ago.

In the UK, Jackie Taylor has been heading up our UK business development since 2017. Jackie has previously had significant IP experience whilst working for inovia for six years up to 2013, working with both patent attorney firms and corporate IP departments. Prior to inovia, Jackie was involved with software sales for Reuters and with financial sales for Lombard North Central. Jackie will be attending the London IP Summit in October 2018 and can be contacted on [email protected] or +44 7502 861 005