joins Global Intellectual Strategies Inc., an IP management consulting firm in the Ottawa area, as an intellectual property analyst. Prior to GIS, she was a consultant with Semiconductor Insights and iPWERX, where she worked in IP management, licensing, litigation, trade secret misappropriation and open source software due diligence. She was also formerly employed at Nortel Networks in the area of manufacturing, testing of semiconductors, hardware design support, software management, hardware design IP management and licensing for Nortel’s global hardware design community. She has a BEng from Concordia and is a member of the Licensing Executive Society.