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Meet your Expert:
Omer is a principal with Azur Strategy, an intellectual property and innovation management consultancy firm based in sunny southern France. He has twenty years of experience on technology-based transactions. His venture capital and corporate background provides him an over the board experience advising clients across the innovation value chain.
His practice is primarily focused on working with technology intensive SMEs, providing portfolio management, transactional and strategic services on an international level. He is a frequent speaker on international conferences, corporate trainings as well as mentor for structuring technology transfer policies for universities. He is actively involved with WIPO Green as part of its advisory board, demonstrating his dedication to addressing climate change challenges through diffusion of technologies.
Previously, Omer was the managing partner of TLS.IP, a strategic IP firm. Before TLS.IP, he was a venture capitalist as a general partner with Diffusion Capital Partners, an early-stage technology venture capital firm. He is actively involved with LES International (“LESI”) and has served as its board member and vice-president. He and is still actively involved with LESI as the co-chair of Global Technology Impact Forum. He remains a proud member of LES France.
Omer has been named among IAM World’s 300 Leading IP Strategists continuously since in 2015.
He has a BA in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University – USA. An LL.M from University of Lausanne - Switzerland and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Suffolk University - USA. Omer is a Member of Istanbul, New York and Massachusetts bars and he holds Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and EUKTS-Expert certifications.