ACI’S HATCH-WAXMAN SERIES ADVISORY BOARD
American Conference Institute’s Hatch-Waxman Series Advisory board was created as a part of ACI’s ongoing effort to provide industry leading content and a world renowned speaker faculty. The board is composed of a selection of all-in-house advisers, including Chief IP and very senior IP/Patent counsel from the leading brand name and generic pharmaceutical companies in the country and in some cases the world. This ‘inner circle’ counsels ACI on the impact of litigation trends and emerging topics.
Ryan M. Daniel
Chief Patent Counsel
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC (Lake Zurich, IL)
Guy Donatiello
Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property
Endo Pharmaceuticals (Malvern, PA)
Stephanie Donahue
Senior Director, Patent Litigation
Sanofi (Bridgewater, NJ)
Rekha Hanu, Ph.D, J.D
Executive Director, Chief IP Counsel
Akorn Pharmaceuticals (Lake Forest, IL)
Staci Julie
SVP and Chief IP Counsel
Teva Pharmaceuticals (Horsham, PA)
Andrea Hutchison
Senior Associate General Counsel, IP Litigation
Gilead Sciences (Foster City, CA)
James P. Leeds
Assistant General Patent Counsel
Eli Lilly & Company (Indianapolis, IN)
James Kellerman
Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property
Astellas Pharma US, Inc. (Northbrook, IL)
Josephine Liu, Ph.D., J.D.
Global Head of IP Litigation
Sandoz
Jeffrey N. Myers, Ph.D.
Vice President & Assistant General Counsel
Pfizer Inc (New York, NY)
Mary Morry
Counsel
Merck & Company (Rahway, NJ)
Pearl T. Siew
Senior Vice President and Head of IP
Design Therapeutics (Carlsbad, CA)
Lars Taavola
VP, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals (Bedminster, NJ)
Brian Stone
Associate General Counsel
Global Legal-Regulatory
Viatris
Peter Waibel
Head, US Patent Litigation
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (East Hanover, NJ)
Kevin Zive
Vice President, General Counsel, and Head of Global Intellectual Property
Apotex Inc.
Emeritus Members
Stephen R. Auten
Partner, Chair of Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Litigation
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP (Chicago, IL)
(Former Vice President, IP, Sandoz, Inc.)
George W. Johnston
Counsel
Gibbons P.C. (Newark, NJ)
(Former Vice President & Chief Patent Counsel, Hoffmann-La Roche)
David H. Silverstein, M.S., J.D.
Partner
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP (New York, NY)
(Former Senior Director, Intellectual Property, Par Pharmaceutical, Inc)
Meg Snowden
Shareholder
Margaret M. Snowden, P.C. (San Francisco, CA)
(Former Vice President,, Intellectual Property, Impax Laboratories)
Shashank Upadhye
Partner
Upadhye Tang LLP (Chicago, IL)
(Former Vice President – Global Intellectual Property, Apotex, Inc.)