Meet our teem
OLAF KRETZSCHMAR
Managing Director
Global IP Strategist
Olaf Kretzschmar is an Intellectual Property expert with over 20 years of business experience in the legal fields of trade mark, copyright, design protection and International IP portfolio administration. He is passionate about supporting globally operating companies, as well as small to medium local Australian businesses and sole traders secure their success through the careful control and management of their intangible assets. Olaf is most proud when he sees brands in shopping malls or magazine advertisements that he has actively helped to protect via Trade Mark Registration. Olaf speaks fluent English and German and advanced Russian and French.
JORDAN BALL
Global IP Network facilitator
IP Portfolio Manager
Jordan completed a combined Bachelor of Law and Commerce at Monash University. He is heavily involved in developing International filing strategies for trade mark and industrial design protection. Jordan regularly engages with International Trade Mark offices on behalf of our clients in relation to the varied application and registration requirements. With a mind for business, as much as law, Jordan focuses on developing protection strategies that our client’s businesses truly need. Jordan is passionate about people and is eager to create the “ONE experience” for you, where we are your partner in global IP protection helping your business to overcome legal, creative or entrepreneurial challenges and to make informed decisions in order to achieve your goals.
DINA GHARAVIPOUR
Personal Assistant
Due Diligence & IP Research
Dina is the company director’s personal assistant. She is highly interested in and enthusiastic about, intellectual property law, particularly with regards to trade marks. Dina has experience dealing with the various stages of the lifecycle of trade marks, particularly domestic and international trade mark filings, and responding to trade mark opposition matters. She is a very creative mind and is involved in our International strategies team for design and trade mark protection. Dina has experience with handling responses to International correspondence from Trade Mark Offices in various countries in relation to provisional refusals of protection. With her creative approach, she often finds a way to convince the examiner to withdraw reasons for refusal of protection. She is also involved in any naming and branding services provided by ONE IP INTERNATIONAL. Dina values strong client relationships and is committed to employing her legal mind and international experience to achieve creative yet practical outcomes for clients.
PULKIT POPLI
Innovation Manager
IP Portfolio
Pulkit Popli is an Intellectual Property Portfolio & Innovation Manager with our firm. Pulkit has over 4 years of experience. He has worked with Deloitte Australia and KPMG India as an IP Consultant, where he worked on various projects related to IP Valuations, Patent Analytics & Commercialisation and M&A Valuations. He is fluent in English and Hindi, Pulkit loves to interact with clients, understand their problems and solve them. He completed his Engineering in Biotechnology in 2014 and Law in IP Honors in 2017. In all matters, related to Technology Transfer and Licensing, Pulkit is the competent expert to consult for strategic and value-driven advice. He also supports your business with its ventures in India.
NATALIA SAFRAN
IP Portfolio Manager
South America
Natalia Safran is our South American Intellectual Property expert, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an Attorney-at-law in Argentina and has more than 5 years of experience in trade mark, copyright, design protection and other Intellectual Property areas. Natalia speaks fluent Spanish and English. Natalia will support your expanding business to ensure its intangible assets are covered when doing business in South America.
CARMEN SMITZ
Marketing Manager
& Business Administrator
Carmen is ONE IP INTERNATIONAL PTY LTD’s marketing manager and business administrator. She the soul behind our frequent events, where we get in touch with our clients and provide interesting insights into the world of Intellectual Property. Talk to Carmen, when it comes to status updates of your Intellectual Property rights or you would like to book in-house events or coaching and training seminars for your staff. She speaks native Dutch/Flemish, French and fluent English. With her excellent communication and language skills and her keen interest in marketing, she is the go-to person, when you need to speak to us or organise an event. She ensures, we stay in regular contact with you and keep you updated about the latest activities in the legal fields of trademark law, patent law and copyright law
DR. MARTIN SEYBOLD
Project Manager M & A
China Business Expert
Martin is a Consultant to our firm and is regularly involved in all matters of our Australian based office, related to our clients’ commercial dealings, involving business activities in Vietnam, Malaysia and China. We consult him for all cross-border litigation matters, regarding corporate law, labour law, and real estate law. He is our expert, engaged for coordination and support in lawsuits of all kinds at Chinese courts, including the court of appeals and Shanghai Maritime Court (representation at court was conducted by our Chinese cooperation lawyers). When it comes to legal structuring and implementation of company transactions in China, in form of share deals, asset deals, mergers and restructurings, review, negotiating and drafting of business contracts of all kinds with regard to China businesses or formation of investment vehicles in China, especially foreign-Chinese Joint Ventures, „Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises“ (WFOE), and Representative Offices he advises and supports our clients, being foreign-invested companies and their management during investment procedures and liability charges of Chinese authorities. Martin is also conducting internal investigations and internal compliance checks at our clients, being foreign-invested companies in China, and oversees and administers the „roll-out “of compliance structures in Chinese subsidiaries of some of our clients. Dr Martin Seybold as an expert in his field, who not only provides valuable strategic advice but also is a pleasure to work with, as he is very approachable and has the rare skill of empathy for business owners in their particular situation. This is why we trust his expertise when achieving our clients’ Asia goals. You can contact Martin directly, by visiting his website https://www.seybold-law.com/en/.
ANA MARIA HENAO LOPEZ
Business Development Assistant
& IP Portfolio Manager South America
Ana is a Business Development Assistant and IP Portfolio Manager of ONE IP. She has more than three years of experience in Intellectual Property and Trade Mark protection. She was a general practice lawyer in Colombia and also worked for a Colombian government company. Her friendly and helpfully personality gives her the skill to provide “the ONE experience” to our clients. Ana speaks fluent Spanish and English. She has a global vision of marketing and her knowledge about social media brings to the company and its clients. Ana’s focus is on our clients’ South American Intellectual Property rights.
JESSICA CUETO-HENRIQUEZ
IP Portfolio Manager
South America
Jessica is a skilled legal practitioner with over 12 years of demonstrated experience delivering tailored legal advice, compliance and assurance, management, governance, commercial and business development services in Chile and more recently in Australia. Consistently recognised as a trusted advisor and a high performer, Jessica has a strong track record in managing relationships, conflict, complexity, client requirements, collaboration and building trust through proven delivery with internal and external stakeholders in challenging, high-stakes environments. As one of the company’s IP Portfolio Manager, she is involved in: – Assessment and identification of important intangible assets; – Ensuring important intangible assets are protected; – Registration, management, monitoring and enforcement of intellectual property; – Provision of IP advice to enable clients to make informed decisions; – Identification and collection of IP rights in order to better protect them. Jessica is a Spanish native speaker and is proficient in the English language.
ANNA BETTINA SCHULZ
IP Portfolio Manager
Europe
Anna Bettina is an Attorney-at-Law (Germany) and our IP Litigation Expert in relation to German and European Intellectual Property right challenges. She is a skilled legal practitioner she ensures that our clients from German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria an and Switzerland ) are able to actively enforce their Intellectual Property assets against infringement. As one of the company’s IP Portfolio Manager, she is involved in: – Assessment and identification of important intangible assets – Ensuring important intangible assets are protected – Registration, management, monitoring and enforcement of Intellectual Property – Provision of IP advice to enable clients to make informed decisions – Identification and collection of IP rights in order to better protect them. Anna Bettina is a German native speaker and is proficient in English, Dutch and Spanish language.