David Mazur
Birthplace: Leuven, Belgium
General Counsel R&D, Nestlé
“Tackling climate change can’t wait and innovation is key to advancing towards a net-zero society. I am convinced that IP and the innovative use of IP in the food space are the key to innovation for businesses, from large multinationals to small start-ups.”
David Mazur leads a global team of patent attorneys, lawyers, IP analysts and paralegals responsible for enabling and protecting Nestlé’s innovations. He is a European patent attorney, and before joining Nestlé he was responsible for IP management and licensing at CERN. Prior to that, he worked as an EPO patent examiner in The Hague. David holds an MSc degree in computer engineering from KU Leuven and an LLM degree in international business law from the University of London.