Founders
Dr. Victoria Donnelly is a founder of IP-MEX Inc., and is a registered Patent Agent in Canada and the USA. She holds technical degrees in three various and complementary areas of engineering and science: Ph.D. in Math&Physics (Computational Physics), M.Sc. in Optics, and B.Eng. in Electronics and Applied Engineering. Victoria has over 10 years of academic research experience as a University Professor.
For the last 25 years Victoria has focused on Intellectual Property management, demonstrating a proven record of success in establishing solid IP Programs in a diverse corporate environment, from a multi-national corporation to a number of high-tech companies. Victoria has worked as a Senior Manager of IP at Nortel Networks, and then as a Director of IP for Tropic Networks, a promising start-up company in Ottawa acquired by Alcatel-Lucent, where she has established a world-class IP program recognized by many investors. Victoria has also worked as a Director of IP at the patent licensing company, where she has specialized in filing and prosecution of patent applications specifically for licensing purposes, and managed a vast patent portfolio of 5000 patents, including patents of Nokia, Microsoft and other large players on the market.
At IP-MEX, Victoria oversees the development of IP strategy, launching and maintaining full scale IP programs for hi-tech startups and SMEs by offering a full spectrum of IP services. Victoria is a prolific inventor herself - she is the author of 35 scientific publications and 8 patents. She is also a member of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada.
Victoria has personally filed over 300 patent applications in various technology areas, including:
Optics/Photonics; Aerospace; Software; Telecommunications; Semiconductors and Material Science; Electronics; Electrical Engineering; Computer and Internet related technologies, including AI; Mechanical engineering; Chemical Engineering and Clean Technologies; Biomedical Engineering; Various Applied Engineering Technologies; Methods of doing business.
Dr. Allan Williams is a co-founder of IP-MEX Inc., and has over 20 years of consulting experience in the Intellectual Property field. He holds a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics, M.Sc. in Radiophysics and Electronics, and B.Sc in Physics/Math, and has over 20 years of research experience in Applied Physics with the emphasis on Computational Physics, Electronics, Semiconductors and Optics.
Allan is a prolific inventor, authoring 25 scientific publications and 10 patents.
Allan's experience extends to computer programming, including C, PASCAL, FORTRAN, JAVASCRIPT, PERL and knowledge of modern Internet Technologies.
At IP-MEX, Allan oversees the development of software for managing intellectual property assets, valuation of patents, IP competitive intelligence, validity and infringement searches, and designing around services.