Alex Guest served on the executive committee during the late 1990's. She now lives in Connecticut with her husband children.

Her bio is below.

Her bio and e-mail are below.


Alexandra Guest is Counsel to the Louis Dreyfus group of companies, which are involved in the international trading and merchandising of energy and agricultural commodities. Ms. Guest advises the group on government regulatory and compliance issues, general corporate matters and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Louis Dreyfus, she practiced corporate and securities law for eight years at Kramer Levin in New York. She also served as a legal and political advisor to the Government of Canada on legal matters ranging from immigration to international trade and was the Press Secretary and Legislative Advisor to the Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell, formerly the Canadian Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense, Minister of Justice and Attorney General. She has also worked for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the International Labour Organisation, the Sierra Legal Defence Fund of Canada and the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.


Ms. Guest was born in Vancouver, Canada and is admitted to practice in both Canada (British Columbia) and New
York. After receiving a BA (with distinction) in Political Studies from Queen's University in Canada, she
obtained her BA and MA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University (Wadham College) and a JD from the University of
Toronto. She has also studied at the University of Connecticut, New York University and the University of
Paris, La Sorbonne. She has received many academic honours, including a BC Government Scholarship, Institute of
Citizenship Scholarship, Boudin Fellowship and the Gowan Foundation Prize as the top student graduating in
Political Studies from Queen's University. In addition to her professional activities, Ms. Guest was formerly a
competitive rower and was a medalist at both national and international levels.

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This is the first of a series of posts on former executive committee members, and where they are now.

Jeremy Lack co-founded the Oxford Alumni Association in 1994 along with Michael Borkan and Alejandro Baez-Sacasa.

He now works as a lawyer in Geneva.

See below for his bio and email.

BIOGRAPHY

General Background
Jeremy Lack is the Director and General Counsel of Medabiotech SA (www.medabiotech.com), a Swiss venture capital and consulting company, specialized in emerging Life Science technology companies and serves as counsel to Poncet, Ziegler & Grumbach, a Geneva-based law firm. He is an English and US-trained lawyer practising a broad range of international business law, with special skills in intellectual property, technology development, licensing, venture capital, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is a past director of Simbionix Ltd. and has worked closely with the boards of many start-up companies and on issues of corporate governance. Mr. Lack was born in Geneva, Switzerland and has Swiss, British, US and Israeli citizenships.

Educational Background
Mr. Lack is a graduate of the International School of Geneva (CH) and Oxford University, Lincoln College (UK), from which he obtained a BA in Jurisprudence and an MA (Oxon.) in Physiological Sciences. He qualified as an English Barrister in 1989, and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1990, including the Southern, Eastern and Northern District Courts of New York. He is also admitted to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He qualified as a US patent and trademark attorney in 1992, and obtained a graduate degree in European Competition law from King’s College in London (UK) in 1997.

Professional Background
Following his call to the English Bar and several mini-pupilages and legal internships in the UK, Mr. Lack joined the New York law firm of Fish & Neave in 1989, where he spent six years in private practice as an associate attorney, handling a broad range of intellectual property and technology-related matters. These ranged from patent prosecution, technology transfer agreements and coordinating multi-jurisdictional intellectual property disputes between large multinationals. He developed an interest in arbitration and mediation as a solution for resolving international commercial disputes in this sector, instead of having to rely on parallel proceedings in national courts. He has advised on US, UK, French, German, Swiss, Dutch, Italian, and European Competition law porceedings. In 1995 Mr. Lack became in-house counsel to Becton, Dickinson & Co., a leading medical devices and diagnostics company. He moved to the company’s European Headquarters in Grenoble, France as an international business attorney, with responsibilities for general corporate and commercial affairs as well as intellectual property matters across Europe. He was the company’s in-house counsel for the UK, Ireland, Italy and Spain, responsible for transactions ranging from acquisitions, divestitures, distribution agreements, labour issues, and general contractual agreements. He was responsible for all of the company’s IP assets, R&D, licensing and technology transfer activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He joined Medabiotech as a director and General Counsel in November of 1998, and acted as the interim CEO & General Counsel of NovImmune SA, a biotechnology spin-off company from the University of Geneva, that was managed by Medabiotech from 1999-2001. He joined Ziegler, Poncet & Grumbach as of counsel in December 2002.

Languages
Mr. Lack is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Hebrew and has a basic working knowledge of Italian and German.

Publications
Mr. Lack has been involved in several associations the Licensing Executive Society (UK, US, Switzerland, France, and its European Committee), WIPO’s Mediation Interest Group, GRAPI/AIPPI, the Bar European Group, AUTM, and the NY Intellectual Property Law Association. Mr. Lack is an advisor to the European Commission on technology transfer and intellectual property and a co-editor of the LES European Technology Transfer Manual (ed. 1999). He lectures regularly on intellectual property and technology transfer issues for entrepreneurs at the University of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute (EPFL) in Lausanne.

Email: jeremy.lack@praetor.ch

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