Thea Kendler
Tara Watson
Heather Sroka
Ms. Sroka is a U.S. licensed attorney specializing in international trade and export compliance with over twenty years of experience in global trade. Her career spans government, private practice, and in-house leadership roles supporting high-technology, semiconductor, and defense industries.
She began her career with the U.S. government investigating unlicensed exports, later joining a global law firm in Washington, D.C., where she advised defense and technology companies on export controls, compliance programs, and government investigations. Ms. Sroka has served as an Empowered Official for defense contractors supporting military and classified programs and has extensive experience advising multinational companies on export controls, sanctions, customs compliance, and global trade risk management.
She has also worked internationally in Amsterdam for a Dutch multinational corporation, advising on global trade operations. Ms. Sroka currently works in-house in the semiconductor industry leading global trade compliance initiatives.
Jasmine Kern
David Gnad
Andrew Rosenberg
Jamie Carroll
Esteban Turic
Florian Brandt
Florian Brandt is a Senior Director on IPD Analytics' European Legal & Regulatory team. He is a qualified European and German Patent Attorney and a registered UPC Representative. At IPD, he works on legal analyses of key decisive patent validity and infringement litigation with the most significant potential market impact on small and large molecule pharmaceutical products across all major European venues. Florian is also involved in developing IPD’s tracking, analytics, and insights solutions.
Before joining IPD in 2018, Florian worked at a top-tier patent law firm in Germany in prosecution and litigation of life science patent portfolios covering both small and large molecule products (2010-2018). He holds science degrees in Biochemistry from the Technical University of Munich and a PhD for studies at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry.