Kathryn Szymczyk
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Global Senior Business Development Manager, Intellectual Property
- Year of Call, Ontario (1998)
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Bio
Kathryn is Senior Business Development Manager for our Global IP group. She is a member of the firm's Global IP Leadership team and works with members to devise business development strategies and drive international initiatives.
Kathryn brings her understanding of the global IP legal market place together with her coaching, training, facilitating, and business development skills to supporting the team. She is passionate about bringing a client-centric and big picture perspective to developing client relationships and cultivating new business.
Before joining Gowling WLG, Kathryn ran her own business development and leadership consulting firm. She provided group training, coaching, facilitation, and strategic advice to lawyers and law firms from around the world.
Before making the transition to business development, Kathryn practiced IP law herself for 12 years in the Ottawa, Toronto, and Moscow offices of Gowling WLG, as well as for another full service firm in Canada.