Peter de Weerd

Background

About Peter de Weerd

I am an executive level intellectual property attorney with extensive and diverse experience leading teams and proactively counseling stakeholders and clients on a broad range of IP legal and business issues, including patents, trademarks, litigation, licensing, contracts and regulatory. Stakeholders and clients appreciate my expertise in legal, scientific and business strategy and operations, foreign and domestic policies and legislation, cross-functional project team leadership and legal department management, including budgets, organizational development and vendor management. I have consistently met or exceeded organizational objectives, including pipeline enhancement, commercial execution, operational excellence and departmental development. Spent more than 25 years in the Healthcare industry stretching from Diagnostics, Biotech, Start-ups, Pharmaceuticals to Generics. • Substantial experience successfully managing, training and developing global teams locally and trans-nationally and leading cross-functional teams • Led internal cross-functional collaboration and coordination with external organizations which contributed to changes in patent and trademark laws in Europe, US, LATAM and changes in regulatory authorities’ processes. • Raised profile of organizations’ IP team from purely operational function to more visible strategic business partner by expanding beyond traditional portfolio management. • Managed IP functions with annual budgets of $120MM+ for businesses with annual sales in excess of $10B.