Tom Mavrakakis has 30 years’ experience in combining legal analysis, negotiation acumen with an understanding of business dynamics to create favorable outcomes in all legal matters. He’s currently IBM’s director of patents and focused on monetising IBM’s significant patent portfolio in North America. Prior to his current position, he has lead IP departments at companies like ServiceNow as well as being the director of patent strategy at Apple for the release of the first iPhone. At the beginning of his legal career, Tom was a patent litigator at big law firms for more than a decade and before that was a semiconductor chip designer prior to attending law school in the evening.