Maris J. Oga
Franchise consultant
Has graduated from Riga Technical University with engineering degree, after post graduate course two years spent as assistant, afterwards worked as Engineer-in-Chief of Latvian student union. Since 1989 was working with international companies willing to start business in Latvia. From 1993 till 2001 with TEXACO and Hydro Texaco, at present - director, Marketing and NBD of LLC Augstceltne. Education updated in Sweden, UK, Belgium and Denmark. Franchise experience - full cycle of the project from rough idea through development and till sale of the business.

Elena Shoushkevich
Business and Intangible Assets Valuation consultant
Auditing Company BDO INVEST - RIGA Business and Intangible Assets Valuation Manager. Latvian assoc.of appraisers certificate No.3 for business valuation Latvian assoc.of appraisers certificate No.1 for valuation of intangible assets Member of American Society of Appraisers.

Andrejs Cirjevskis
Associated proffessor of Strategic Management of Riga International College of Economic and Business  Administration (RICEBA)
Education: High Commercial School of Paris, All-Russian Academy for Foreign Trade Moscow, All-Union Institute of Foodstuff Industry Moscow.
Qualification: Doctor of economic science of Latvian Republic, Master of International Management, engineer - economist, lector of Strategic Management RMS and RICEBA..

Ott Moorlat
Moorlat & Co Patent Bureau Ltd., Owner, registered IP attorney

Education: Tallinn Technical University, electronic engineer, Central Institute of Patents, patent specialist, Master of Economic, Tallinn Technical University, a registered IP attorney
Specialization: legal protection of industrial and intellectual property, application of trademarks, utility models, patents, licenses, designs, consulting services in these fields. Active in industrial property matters from the year 1972
Secretary of the Estonian National Group of AIPPI, a member of the Estonian Association of Patent Attorneys, a member of the Estonian Consultants' Association , a member of the Board of ECA, a member of the World Trade Center Tallinn, President of the Club of WTC Tallinn
 

Eugeny Fortuna
Patent Law Office Foral Consultant

Education:Graduated from the Riga Technical University (B.Sc., 1997) and the University of Latvia (MBA, 1999). All the degree papers related Intellectual Property issues.
Specialization:Currently practices in the fields of Strategic Intellectual Property advice, including: the trademark, patent, industrial design, copyright, licensing, unfair competition, IP prosecution and litigation. Publishes articles on the topics of law and economics in the newspapers and on the web sites. Mr. Fortuna is a member of Licensing Executives Society (LES) and an active member of the International Trademark Association (INTA).
 

Svetlana Makeeva
Managing partner of LATISS NEO Agency, firm on intellectual property protection.

Education: Graduated from the Riga Technical University, faculty of technical appliances and automation (1984). Graduated from the Riga Patent Institute (1990). Has finished the program “Valuation of Intangible Assets and Intellectual Property” of Institute of Evaluation of Russian Financial Academy (2000).
Specialization: From 1994 - Registered Patent Attorney of the Republic of Latvia (registration number 24).
Member of Association of Latvian Patent Attorneys (LPA)
Independent examiner, on valuation of intellectual property, of Latvian Commercial Register
Member of Latvian Association of Independent Examiners
Member of International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI)
Member of Licensing Executives Society International (LESI)
Member of UNION of European Practitioners in Industrial Property (UNION)
Member of International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys (FICPI)