Speakers

	Herbert Aichinger Mr Herbert Aichinger has a background in chemistry. During his 12 years in the Commission he has had numerous responsibilities as Head of Unit including Industrial Air Pollution legislation, Genetically Modified Organisms, Green Public Procurement and currently as Senior Advisor the Sustainable Consumption and Production action plan.

	Maria-Jesus Alonso Experienced in-house lawyer, specialized in Regulated industries (telecoms, food & packaging, and pharmaceuticals), with over 20 years experience in multinational companies in Southern Europe and LatinAmerica. Until November 2007, MJAlonso has been Chairman BOD Cable & Wireless Spain as well as Regulatory & Public Policy Director for Southern & Eastern Europe and LatinAmerica. Formerly MJAlonso has been General Counsel and BOD Secretary for France Telecom in Spain, for Tetra Laval in Spain and Portugal, and SmithKline (now GSK). Currently (since 2008) MJAlonso is BoD member and General Counsel of an Investments & Assets Management Firm and is also Country Representative in Spain of ACC Europe –Association of Corporate Counsel-. MJAlonso speaks 5 languages (Sp, En, Fr, It, Port) MJAlonso is married, and has 2 boys (teenagers)

	Bill Batchelor - Partner, Baker & McKenzie Practice Area Bill is a partner in the European & Competition Law Practice in Brussels where he specialises in EU and UK competition law. Practice Description Bill spent six months with the UK antitrust regulator, the Office of Fair Trading, as part of the team responsible for bringing in the 1998 UK Competition Act. He has worked for DG Competition, the European Commission’s Competition Directorate-General, before joining Baker & McKenzie. Bill has worked in the Washington DC, London and Brussels’ offices of Baker & McKenzie. Representative Matters Mergers and Joint Ventures - advising on EC and multi-jurisdictional merger control laws in relation to mergers and joint ventures. Recent projects include BP/Nova styrenics joint venture (for BP), Cisco/WebEx (for Cisco), ADM/Pura (for ADM) and Bain/American-Standard (for American Standard). Distribution - advising on the impact of EC competition law and compliance auditing the franchising and distribution practices of clients in a wide range of industries, including the automotive, industrial and agricultural machinery, 3G mobile, data networking equipment, telecommunications, travel financial services and software sectors. Competition investigations and litigation – acting for complainants and defendants in cartel and market power investigations. Recent projects include: defending Archer Daniels Midland before the UK and EC authorities and EC courts, securing significant reductions in fine in respect of the Citric Acid, Lysine and Sodium Gluconate investigations; successfully representing KirchMedia (now Infront) before the European Court of First Instance and Court of Justice reversing approval of a UK law mandating free-to-air coverage of the FIFA World Cup; defending a large multinational bank in the Belgian Banks cartel investigation of the European Commission into the fixing of currency conversion rates leading to a successful settlement; representing a major global reinsurer in the successful settlement of an EC cartel inquiry; securing access to interface information for a complainant from the UK competition authorities in respect of a dominant software vendor; successfully defending abuse of dominance investigations by the EC authorities into a multinational travel financial services company. Education & Bar Admittance Bill graduated from Bristol University and has also studied at the University of Hanover. Bill qualified as a solicitor (England & Wales) in 1998. Publications In addition to in-house and client briefs on competition law, commercial and gambling issues, Bill’s external publications include contributing to Butterworths Competition Law, Cartels Chapter, Sweet & Maxwell’s IT Encyclopaedia, Competition Law Chapter, authoring “B2B Marketplaces and EC Competition Law” (Antitrust Bulletin), Criminalisation of Competition law (“Business Crimes”), the “New Cartel Offence” (the Lawyer), “Price-Fixers - in the OFT’s Sights” (Fraud Intelligence) and “Application of the Technology Transfer Block Exemption to Software Licensing Agreements” (CTLR); “The Fallout from Microsoft: The Court of First Instance Leaves Critical IT Industry Issues Unanswered” (CTLR)

	James T. Bellerjeau James Bellerjeau is General Counsel and Secretary of Mettler-Toledo International Inc., a US public company headquartered in Greifensee, Switzerland. Mettler-Toledo is the world's largest manufacturer and marketer of weighing and analytical instruments for use in laboratory, industrial and food retailing applications. Prior to joining Mettler-Toledo, Mr. Bellerjeau worked at the law firms Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Frankfurt, Germany, and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York, NY. His practice included securities, structured finance, mergers & acquisitions, public company and corporate law. Mr. Bellerjeau is President of the European chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel. He also serves on the Legal Committee of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Bellerjeau received a BA from Clark University, a JD from Albany Law School, and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

	Marten Bezemer, Associate General Counsel EMEA of Plantronics Inc. Marten Bezemer is Associate General Counsel EMEA of Plantronics Inc. (NYSE:PLT), a company which designs and manufactures lightweight communications headset products. Plantronics headsets are widely used in many Fortune 500 corporations and have been featured in numerous films and high profile events, including the historic "One small step for man" transmission from the moon in 1969. Prior to joining Plantronics, Marten was Legal Counsel Benelux of Global Telecommunication Systems. He also held legal positions at Fokker Space and Dutch P&I. Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Marten studied Law at the University of Leyden in the Netherlands.

	Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ellinghaus Partner Practice Area Administrative Law; Sustainable Development, technical and environmental compliance, Product safety; Head of Baker & McKenzie’s European Practice Group Environment, Regulatory & Planning and of its German PG “Product Liability & Safety”. Practice Description Ulrich Ellinghaus advises companies on the implementation of sustainability and product stewardship strategies; he advises and represents companies regarding compliance with technical and environmental requirements and on product safety issues, which includes the global implementation of product recalls. Representative Matters Prepare, on behalf of the European Commission, a comprehensive survey on the implementation of the General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC in 25 EU Member States. Coordinate global recalls for, inter alia, multinational manufacturers of consumer electronics, telecommunications terminal devices, sport equipment etc. Publications, Presentations and Articles Protecting Europe’s consumers, in: The European Lawyer, 2005, p. 42-43 Produktsicherheit - Die Europäische Gemeinschaft nimmt einen zweiten Anlauf, in: EWS 3/2005 (Editorial) (= Product safety - The European Union has another go). (= Particular administrative law problems concerning industrial parks) Die Umsetzung der Allgemeinen Produktsicherheitsrichtlinie in den Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union, StoffR 2007, p. 31-35 (= The Implementation of the General Product Safety Directive in the EU Member States) Toy soldiers: lawyers on the product safety frontline, The European Lawyer, November 2007, p. 18/58. Ulrich Ellinghaus holds lectures on administrative law at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen. Education and Bar Admittance He holds the titles Honorary Professor (2007) and Doctor of Laws (1998, summa cum laude), both awarded by the Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen. Ulrich joined Baker & McKenzie in 1996. He was admitted to the Bar in Frankfurt – “Rechtsanwalt” in 1996. Ulrich finished his professional education with the Qualifying Bar Examination/Second State Exam (1995). He holds a post-graduate degree from the Law School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (Master of Laws - LL.M., 1992 - 1993). He studied law at the Law School of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (1985 – 1991) where he graduated in 1991. Languages German, English

	Katerina Galanopoulou Katerina Galanopoulou is the License Compliance and Anti-piracy Manager of Microsoft Hellas. Her primary responsibilities include the cross functional License Compliance and Anti-Piracy role leadership in the Subsidiary, the research of the National and European legislation on IP, as well as the drafting of regular reports to the attention of the General Manager, the business opportunities, models and new markets identification and the team management and people development. She joined Microsoft Hellas from Oracle Hellas, where she held the position of in house Lawyer for 3 years. Her primary responsibilities included giving appropriate legal advice (commercial and Intellectual Property Rights issues), identifying, analyzing and evaluating risks as well as supervising all company agreements. Prior to that, she had worked for Biosafety SA as Legal Counsel/Communication Director and at Agrotouristiki SA as Scientific Collaborator. She holds a Degree in Law from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a LLM from University of Kent at Canterbury.

	Munir Hassan Partner, Energy & Utilities T +44 (0)20 7367 2046 E munir.hassan@cms-cmck.com Munir Hassan is a partner in CMS Cameron McKenna’s Energy Team, specialising in power projects. He advises on independent power projects, renewables and emissions trading, regulatory and commercial arrangements, M&A transactions and sector restructurings, and has drafted or advised on power sector legislation, contracts, licences and codes in a number of jurisdictions. Munir has been advising electricity sector clients in the UK and overseas for ten years, and his current ‘live’ major projects include advising on new nuclear build in the UK, developing the legal framework for electricity and desalination in Saudi Arabia, advising on the proposed acquisition of Gatwick airport, negotiating emissions trading documentation, advising on development of the Northern Ireland transmission grid code, and advising on renewable and marine renewable projects across Europe.

	Tom Heremans Partner Phone: + 32 2 743 69 73 email: tom.heremans@cms-db.com Why recommended Tom obtained extensive professional experience in patent, trademark and copyright matters at Allen & Overy, Brussels (Senior associate in the Intellectual Property department, 1994-2002) and at Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, Washington DC, U.S. (foreign trainee, 1998-1999). Tom became a partner and the head of the Intellectual Property department at CMS DeBacker in 2002. His specialist areas are: Copyright, Trademarks and Patents; Advertising and Marketing; Internet and Electronic Commerce; Media and Technology; Privacy; Distribution law and commercial litigation. His major clients include major food stuffs manufacturers (e.g. the labeling case before the European Court of Justice in 2003), domain name registries, internet service providers, e-commerce companies, international football organizations and a mobile telecoms operator. Legal 500 of 2008: “CMS DeBacker has Tom Heremans, who is a specialist in domain name disputes, and has represented the ‘.be’ registry and the ‘.eu’ registry in several court cases as well as conducting domain name litigation for international trademark owners.” Tom Heremans of CMS DeBacker is described by competitors as an “up-and-coming” individual and is commended by clients for being someone who “really knows the business of domain names.” He is noted as one to watch. Tom regularly holds lectures at the Free University of Brussels (V.U.B.) about domain names and teaches in the post-graduate marketing program at HUBrussels (the Flemish Business College in Brussels) on the legal aspects of marketing. Tom was the head of the pan European CMS sector group TMT (telecommunications, media and technology) from 2005 to 2008. Tom is a member of Belgian copyright law association and of the international trademark association. He is a member of the Benelux trademark association BMM and won the BMM Wim Mak award in 2006 for his article about the protection of trademarks in the .eu domain. Relevant experience Conducting litigation and providing advice to the .be and the eu registries Conducting domain name disputes as accredited “.eu” or “.be” panellists, as plaintiffs or as defendants for national and international clients Assisting a wide range of companies – including telecom operators, banks and pharmaceutical companies - on advertising issues Advising sports associations on unauthorized broadcasting of football games and on piracy and customs matters Advising and representing the third Belgian mobile telephone operator and its Dutch mother company in advertising, copyright and trade mark matters Practice area Intellectual Property (Copyright law, Patents, Trade marks, Domain names) Unfair competition law (Trade Practices) Telecommunications, Media and Technology Languages English, Dutch, French, German. Publications Publications: Tom wrote a book on the legal status of domain names in Belgium: “Domeinnamen: een juridische analyse van een nieuw onderscheidingsteken”, Brussels, Larcier, 2003, 228 pages He has also written articles for legal journals in the field of intellectual property law including: Heremans, T., De wet van 26 juni 2003 betreffende het wederrechtelijk registreren van domeinnamen: een eerste analyse, I.R.D.I. 2003, liv. 2, 105-112 Heremans, T., De stakingsvordering inzake het auteursrecht. Overzicht van rechtspraak 1996-2000, I.R.D.I. 2001, 123-133 Heremans, T., Ongena, K., Een alternatieve proceduremogelijkheid voor de merkhouder, I.R.D.I. 2002, liv. 2-3, 189-193 Heremans, T., De Jong, P., Sports Image Rights in Belgium [Sports Image Rights in Europe], I.S. Blackshaw en C.R. Siemann, Asser Institute, 2005 Heremans, T., Alternatieve geschillenbeslechting in het .eu domein: een overzicht van de procedure en de eerste uitspraken, Bull. B.M.M. 2006, liv. 3, 110-117 Heremans, T., In de gloria met een televisieprogramma, RABG 2005, liv. 10, 934-940 Heremans, T., De juridische TI-fictie en de concrete toepassing van de WHPC, Annuaire Pratique du Commerce & Concurrence 2003, 103-109 Kupferschmid, K., Heremans, T., The United States implements the WIPO treaties and extends the copyright protection term by 20 years, I.R.D.I. 1998, 393-395 Heremans, T., Ongena, K., Verkoopspromoties en de nieuwe Wet op de kansspelen, R.D.C. 2001, 663-668.

	Wolter Kymmell, Legalview Consulting Wolter Kymmell worked for nine years as General Counsel of the Flexsys Group until November 1, 2007. Flexsys was a global Dutch-US joint venture company making and selling chemicals to the rubber processing industry. Prior to Flexsys Wolter held various positions as in-house counsel and also practiced as outside counsel. He has extensive experience in competition law, M&A, IP law and international transactions. He is currently self-employed as an independent legal consultant in Brussels, working as in-house counsel for different companies. Parallel to this he specializes as coach and counselor for individuals working as external or in house counsel and as trainer for law firms and in house legal teams.

	Françoise Lefèvre Etudes/Studie/Education Licenciée en droit LLM Cambridge, UK Situation actuelle/Huidige situatie/Current position Avocat associé Expérience professionnelle/Beroepservaring/Professional experience Collaboratrice, Taquet Collaboratrice, De Bandt Partner, De Bandt et ensuite Partner, Linklaters De Bandt Expérience en matière d’arbitrage/Ervaring met arbitrage/Arbitration experience Expérience comme arbitre et comme conseil dans l'arbitrage national et international Matières pratiquées: droit des sociétés, contrats internationaux, construction, driot bancaire, droit pénal Principales publications/Belangrijkste publicaties/Most important publications F. Lefèvre et Th. Bosly, Abus de biens sociaux, 16 octobre 1998, Séminaire Institut des Réviseurs d'Entreprises F. Lefèvre et Th. Bosly, Directors' Liabilities in case of insolvency, Belgium, Kluwer Law International, 1999, p. 141. F. Lefèvre, La validité d’une clause d’arbitrage figurant dans les statuts d’une société commerciale ou à forme commerciale, T.B.H., 1999, 29-30 F. Lefèvre et M. De Roeck, De private omkoping, TRV, 1999, p. 545 F. Lefèvre et J. Verbist, De Wet breffende de bestrijding van de betalingsachterstand bij handelstransacties, Pacioli, 2002, afl. 133, 2-5 F. Lefèvre, La notion de blanchiment, Colloque IFE Blanchiment, 17 septembre 2003 F. Lefèvre, La prévention du blanchiment : une cible mouvante, 2004 F. Lefèvre et A. De Cooman, Filing claims on public procured contracts : mark your diaries, 2005 F. Lefèvre, La participation du banquier à la commission d’infractions de blanchiment, d’abus de biens sociaux et de fraude fiscale, in X., La banque dans la vie de l’entreprise, p. 185-258, 2005 F. Lefèvre, The scope and contents of the request for arbitration in a comparative perspective, in X., Arbitral procedure at the dawn of the new millenium, 2005 F. Lefèvre, Belgium anti-money laundering: the Belgian anti-money laundering procedures, 2006 F. Lefèvre et O. Praet, Belgium, in X., Anti-money laundering : International law and practice, 2007 F. Lefèvre, Commentaires sur la loi pour le développement de la concurrence au service des consommateurs, R.B.D.A., 31 janvier 2008, p. 20 F. Lefèvre, Le printemps du blanchiment, Bank. fin. R., 2008, afl. 3, 146-156 Langues/Talen/Languages Act.: Français, Anglais Pas.: Néerlandais

	Vince Shiers, Managing Director, RQA Europe Limited As Managing Director for RQA Europe Limited, Vince Shiers has spent over 15 years providing expert services to the food and consumer products industry. He was awarded a PhD for this work in Chemistry from the University of West of England in 1993. He is a Chartered Chemist and a Professional Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2001, Dr. Shiers joined SGS (United Kingdom Limited) as Food Business Manager with responsibility for all aspects of food consultancy, auditing and testing. His role developed into the Business Manager of all SGS activities in the London region, including consulting, auditing, testing and certification of products as wide ranged as food, plastics, textiles, electrical goods, and nursery products. In January 2003, he joined RQA Europe with responsibility for all RQA activities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In addition to the business management of RQA Europe, he also assists companies directly in improving and testing their recall and crisis management plans. He is also the leader of the RQA crisis response team covering Europe, Africa and Middle East and regularly advises companies during product recall incidents. He has been an invited speaker on product recall at meetings around Europe and recently acted as an expert witness on product recall at the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce.

	Dirk P. Tirez Dirk P. Tirez, a Belgian national, is General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at the Belgian Post, Belgium’s incumbent and leading postal operator with 35,000 employees. He is also maître de conférences at the University of Namur in Belgium, where he teaches European banking and finance law. Dirk is a member of the Board of ACC Europe and is also Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Belgian Employers Federation (FEB/VBO). He is multilingual and the author of numerous publications in the area of European securities laws and regulations. From 1996 to 2003, Dirk was a Member of the Senior Management Committee, General Counsel and Company Secretary of NASDAQ Europe. He was a founding Executive of EASDAQ. Dirk was also a member of the SRO committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and was vice-chairman of the corporate governance committee of the European Association of Securities Dealers. Prior to this, from 1993 to 1996, he was counsel to the Office of Mr. Philippe Maystadt, the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Foreign Trade, and was in charge of banking and finance legislation, the implementation of European securities directives, and the Belgian privatisation programme. From 1989 until 1993, he was associated with international leading law firms and worked both in New York and Brussels, as an attorney admitted to the New York and the Brussels Bars. Dirk graduated in 1987 magna cum laude from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in 1988 from the College of Europe in Bruges and obtained in 1989 a LL.M. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

	Roger Van der Linden Roger Van der Linden graduated as a Ph.D in Science from the State University of Ghent, Belgium in 1974. In his professional career he has been working for companies in the polymer industry like Exxon, Raychem, Mobil, Neste and Borealis in a variety of technical and managerial functions. Since a few years he is the Group Manager for Environment,Energy and Product Stewardship. Moreover he is leading a team to prepare Borealis for the REACH legislation. Since ten years, Roger is the president of Essenscia Polymers, the Belgian Federation of Polymer Producers, a board member of Fost Plus, the Belgian recycling organisation for postconsumer Packaging and Chairman of Val-I-Pac, the Belgian recycling organisation for Industrial Packaging. He is also active in a number of associations on national and European level, like CEFIC and Plastics Europe in the field of environment and producer responsibility.

	Tanguy Van Overstraeten, Partner, Linklaters LLP Listed among Belgian leading individuals in Communications & IT (Chambers Global), Tanguy is the Global Head of the Privacy Practice of Linklaters and the Head of the Technology Media & Telecommunication (TMT) group in Belgium. He has developed a thorough practice in the field of information technology contracts and regulatory, focusing on data protection projects and compliance audits as well as outsourcing. With a strong corporate background, he has a long-standing experience in advising multinationals on local and international large scale transactions and regulatory projects in a wide variety of industry sectors. Among recent data protection projects, he has advised a worldwide financial messaging services company in relation to personal data transfer outside the EU, including dealing with the relevant regulatory authorities. He has also advised a Japanese heavy industry group in connection with the implementation of a whistleblowing scheme in Europe and led the data protection compliance program of a multinational pharmaceutical company in Belgium. Tanguy is a member of the Digital Economy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union and Vice-Chair of the ICT Committee of the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium. He regularly contributes in conferences related to data protection, in Belgium and abroad, most recently at the conference organised by Computers, Privacy and Data Protection on “Data Protection in a Profiled World?” (January 2008, Brussels). He is teaching privacy laws at the Solvay Business School (University of Brussels, Belgium) and has published numerous legal articles on privacy matters. He is also country correspondent of the Computer and Telecommunications Law Review (CTLR). Tanguy is graduated from the University of Brussels (1987). A fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation (1990), he holds a LL.M. degree from the University of Chicago Law School (1991). Direct dial: +32 (0)2 501 94 05 Mobile: +32 (0)478 40 15 69 Email: tvanover@linklaters.com http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/95-46-ce/dir1995-46_part1_en.pdf http://eur-lex.europa.eu/pri/en/oj/dat/2002/l_201/l_20120020731en00370047.pdf

	Axel Viaene Axel Viaene joined Starbucks Coffee as EMEA Legal Director, Corporate Counsel in 2003. He is based at the company’s European headquarters and roasting facility in Amsterdam. His responsibilities include providing legal counsel and training to the European and national management teams on a broad range of issues, particularly in the areas of commercial, licensing, M&A, real estate, employment, corporate and environmental law. Prior to joining Starbucks, Axel served from 2000 until 2003 as Benelux legal counsel for Dell Inc., based in Amsterdam, advising the Belgian and Dutch management teams and helping to set up the company’s government relations function in Brussels. Prior to Dell, Axel worked as international associate attorney at the global headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta from 1997 until 2000. Axel has been a member of the New York Bar since 1998 and currently serves as Vice-President on the Board of Directors of the European Chapter of ACC. In his capacity of board member, he advises on a number of ACC initiatives, including Corporate Counsel University and the ACC Annual Meeting. Mr. Viaene received an LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School and is a graduate of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Law School in Belgium. He is fluent in English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

	Aviel Verbruggen Trained in engineering and applied economics at Louvain, Antwerp and Stanford University, his present research covers electricity economics (cogeneration, planning, costing and pricing in power systems, distributed generation and grid access) and energy efficiency. He is co-founder of research and consultant units ‹STEM, CENERGIE and FINES›. He conceived, supervised and edited the State of the Environment Reports in Flanders (1993-98) and was the first president of the Environmental Advisory Council (1991-95) and principal advisor to the Minister of the Environment (1999-01). He contributes to the IPCC Third and Fourth Assessment Reports (WGIII: Mitigation and Adaptation.

	Elizabeth Wall Elizabeth is the founder of Elizabeth Wall Partners International, www.elizabethwall.com ,specialising in global consultancy and search for senior in-house legal, compliance and risk management professionals. Elizabeth: Is a UK and US qualified lawyer with extensive in-house experience Led two highly regarded in-house counsel associations in the US and UK as Chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel (formerly the American Corporate Counsel Association) in 2002-2003 and as Chairman of the English Law Society’s Commerce and Industry Group in 1996-1997 Operated as General Counsel for over 20 years with global, public corporations in the aerospace, financial services, IT manufacturing and services, media, publishing, telecommunications and transportation sectors. Set up and re-organised major legal, compliance and regulatory functions around the world. Participated in the UK’s Prince of Wales’s Business and Environment Programme since 1994 Has the wisdom and knowledge derived from operating at senior/board level both as a General Counsel and as a non- executive director and audit committee member of public international companies