Heroes of Brand Protection

Our guest today is Maral Behnam-Garcia, Director of Brand Protection & Intellectual Property at Wish. When Maral was a young girl she wanted to become Ben Matlock, from the hit TV show Matlock. For a long time, our guest was determined to become the greatest criminal defense attorney. Once Maral got into Law School she realized she should follow another path. Maral first learned about IP throu...

Benjamin Okeke, Senior Corporate Counsel at Amazon is our Brand Protection Hero today. Our guest knew from the age of 9 he was going to go to a top ten school, and attend Law School. His plan was to go into general practice as a corporate lawyer. For a period of time though, Benjamin entertained the idea of becoming an NFL player, as well as becoming a software development engineer. Surely the wor...

Christopher Horne, former Business Security and Integrity Group Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprises is our Brand Protection Hero today. Our guest wanted to be a Formula 1 driver as a little kid, then a pilot, after that a famous singer, and finally planned on becoming a police officer. After over a decade as a police officer, Christopher pivoted to the world of Brand Protection first through H...

Our guests today are Ellen Sheedy and Jennifer Carman, from Keen. Ellen is the General Counsel, and when she was younger she took a trip through Central America, where destiny was made. Jennifer is the IP & Global Brand Protection Manager, and went on a rafting trip to the Grand Canyon for 23 days. Spoiler alert: both of them are just as adventurous as the brand they represent. Hosted on Acast...

Stasa Racnik, Brand Protection Senior Manager at Entertainment One, wanted to be a writer as a child due to her passion for reading. As she made her way through school, her passions evolved and pivoted her interests to pursue a career in the legal field. When Stasa got into Law School she was still indecisive regarding a specialty but having lived in different countries helped her find the perfect...

Dr. Marion Woessner, Head of Trademarks and Domains at Belron Group is our Brand Protection Hero today. Our guest wanted to be a garbage truck driver as a kid, then a journalist, and finally realized she wanted to study law. In her early career, Marion was a trademark examiner in the German Patent and Trademark Office, and that's when she fell in love with trademark law. Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Travis Johnson, Vice President - Legislative Affairs, and Senior Counsel at IACC is our Brand Protection Hero today. Our guest started wanting to become a veterinarian, to studying law and working at nightclubs as a side job. He then realized he wanted to get into IP Law, and after a few years working at a small boutique firm in his hometown, he moved to Washington DC to work at IACC in public pol...

Andreas Iwerbäck, Director of Technology & IP Intelligence at Husqvarna ir our Brand Protection Hero today. At a young age our guest wanted to be a garbage man, then went on to study computer science which really wasn't his passion. That peaked additional interest to pursue the technical angle of being a patent attorney. He found that he really enjoyed the complex world of IP, and now has over...

Dennis Wilke, Brand Protection Coordinator at Cluse is our Brand Protection Hero today. Our guest was told at the age of 8 that he should become a lawyer due to his speaking skills. At the time, he wanted to become a singer or a painter, however he realized he didn’t have the necessary skills to be successful on it. Instead, he became an IP Lawyer to protect other people's creativity Hosted on Aca...

Carrie Hedayati, Intellectual Property Counsel at 100% is our Brand Protection Hero today. From wanting to be a palaeontologist, to then focusing on fashion merchandising, to finally getting into Law School to work on anti-counterfeiting issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Evan Feldstein, Vice General Manager & General Counsel at FOREO is our Brand Protection Hero today. He shared with us his personal story about how he initially wanted to be a NBA player, but in college realised that law, specifically patent law, was the path he wanted to follow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Baima, Intellectual Property Counsel at Wahl Clipper is our Brand Protection Hero today. He shared with us his personal story about the challenge of working midnight shifts in a box making company and then realized his health was not good, so he made a life change and joined the Army and put himself through college as an engineer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Jon Howell, General Counsel at HyperIce is our Brand Protection Hero today. He shared with us his personal and professional story and whose passion has been baseball but Golf is on the rise to his number one passion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nicole Klug , Senior Global Brand Protection Manager at  Hugo Boss  is our Brand Protection Hero today. She shared her personal journey including the story of a man who requested to put the iconic brand of Hugo Boss on his brand new Porsche. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Carriero , Senior Brand Protection Director at Under Armour is our Hero of Brand Protection today. He always wanted to be in the investigations space, and he has a great story to tell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.