Team
Christian Bunke
Qord Global Patent Filing and Prosecution
CEO & founder Aalbun. Innovation and Patent entrepreneur. Sold the 350 patents in mobile advertisement to Apple, and supports world leading IP operations. Aalbun is one of the leading patent factories globally and also support in patent litigation.
Cambridge, UK
Donal O’Connell
Innovation Harvesting, Trade Secrets, Patent Strategy
Managing Director at Chawton Innovation Services. Former head of R&D and IP at Nokia. Author of the book ‘ The Patent Factory’ detailing how he build the process to create 1000 patents a year at Nokia. Also world expert on Trade Secrets and optimising IP value.
Surrey, UK
Raghuram (Raghu) Varadarajan
Analytics, Search, General Patent Support
Head of Search & Analytics – Arctic Invent/Aalbun. Lead the Microsoft analytics, search and patent drafting team of 100 at CPA Global. Supporting leading won in Sonos vs Google and Unwired Planet vs Huawei.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Marcus Tierney
Strategy and Commercialisation.
Head of Strategy and Commercialisation for QORD. Led the R&D tax and Grants practice at PwC (Melbourne, Australia). Advisor to both Federal and State Governments on innovation policy, investment attraction and grant assessments. Graduate Australian Institute of Australian Directors
Richard Gray
Brand Strategy, Creative Communications & Marketing .
Head of brand communications for Qord. Richard has over 29 years experience working both agency and client side across the UK, EMEA and APAC both in ECD and CMO roles for clients including VISA inc, O2 Telefonica, AVIS, Canon, SIEMENS and Eastspring Investments.
London, UK
Tim Lea
Strategic Advisor
Following a 20-year career in Banking and Corporate Finance, Tim embraced the blockchain back in early 2015 writing a book, Down the Rabbit Hole, in plain English. Since then, he has been an International Keynote speaker and strategic content creator on the applications of blockchain and an active advisor to many technology projects, with a strong emphasis on blockchain, IoT, and sustainability. He is also a co-founder of Walking Between Worlds, a social impact project that energizes global Indigenous communities to amplify First Nation’s powerful voices through NFTs.
Ian Aitken
Group CTO
Mr Ian Aitken is an accomplished technology leader with over 28 years of experience in the IT, IOT, and telecommunication industries. He has demonstrated his engineering, design, and executive management expertise throughout his career. In addition, Ian has held multiple board positions in various companies including Unisono Pty Ltd, Samsung Electronics and Cisco Systems; showcasing his leadership and strategic capabilities in different industries.
Gemma Sisia
Director of Social Enterprise
Gemma runs The School of St Jude in Tanzania which provides free education to 1,800 bright, poor primary and secondary students.
In 2007, Gemma’s achievements were honoured by a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Her story has been featured twice in the ABC TV documentary program Australian Story, first in 2005 and then a follow-up in 2009. In 2012, Gemma was named one of The Australian Financial Review and Westpac’s 100 Women of Influence, nominated in the Global category, and was also a finalist for New South Wales Australian of the Year. In 2000 and 2019, Gemma was awarded a Sapphire Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International.