Cassandra Derham started her IP career over twenty years ago and qualified as a European Patent Attorney (EPA) and Chartered Patent Attorney (CPA) in private practice in London, building on a Masters in Physics with Medical Physics from the University of Bristol. After nearly a decade in and around Gray’s Inn, Mrs Derham moved from private practice to industry, which has taken her from the South East of England (in high-tech) to the South East of France, where she works for Amadeus, a travel technology company. Mrs Derham is the head of Intellectual Property, overseeing teams looking after all aspects of IP in Amadeus from M&A to patent portfolio building. When not protecting the IP rights around computer-implemented inventions, Mrs Derham enjoys the offerings of the French Riviera including hiking, cycling, skiing, building sandcastles with her children and martial arts.