Tony is an experienced company director and CFO, having qualified as a solicitor and a chartered accountant. Tony is an experienced company director and CFO, having qualified as a solicitor and a chartered accountant. His career has focused on corporate finance as well as operational effectiveness, risk management and big data projects in the international banking and professional services outsourcing industries.

Tony is a skilful relationship manager, an innovative thinker and an effective collaborator. He is a trained counsellor and a keen amateur musician.

Matthew Hives like his Father and Grandfather began his career as an engineer but unlike them did not build boats or engines for Spitfires but started as a sponsored apprentice working for GEC ALSTHOM.

After 10 years at GEC ALSTHOM he moved into the world of Intellectual Property (IP) to work for CPA Global. Now he has an opportunity to combine his Engineering and IP skills through founding One Stop IP; the first integrated solution for IP in one place through an online portal.

Matthew has a BEng from Newcastle University and an MSc from Aberdeen University.

Rob has been associated with Intellectual Property all his working career. For the last 8 years working for a European Law Firm and CPA Global where he managed the global marketing and corporate business development functions. Prior to that he was CEO of a healthcare company spin-out from Cambridge University and an international financial services business. Rob spent his early career internationally with Shell and DuPont managing businesses and new technologies in the life science and food sectors.

Rob was an Open Scholar at Oxford studying Biological Sciences, then and MA in Agriculture and Forestry.

Lorraine started her IP career as a management trainee with CPA Global and during her 18 years in the global IP business gained invaluable expertise in diverse areas including software development, sales, implementation project management, through to senior management roles co-ordinating the implementation of electronic data integration programmes, and B2B systems.

Lorraine managed the department in CPA Global responsible for renewals payments before joining One Stop IP in 2013. She relishes the opportunity to offer clients a more personalised range of IP support and consultancy services. Lorraine has a BA degree in French, Spanish and International Marketing, and an MBA from Sheffield Hallam.