Richard Nugent is the Head of IP Strategy & Services at Mathys & Squire Consulting. With a diverse background in negotiation, he began his career in the financial services sector in the late 1980s, before transitioning to the voluntary sector in the 1990s. After obtaining his law degree, he worked as inhouse counsel, negotiating contracts for the construction of Belfast City Airport. He later held roles in the legal teams of Canon, Orange, and SAS Software. In 2007, he joined Rothamsted Research, a leading agritech research center, as an IP Manager and Legal Contracts Manager. He later worked as a Contracts Manager at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) within the Research & Enterprise team. In addition to his consulting firm, Totalinfo Ltd., where he works as a Commercial Agent, Import/Export Broker, and IP & Contracts consultant, he has supported hundreds of innovators across various stages of the innovation process.

Since joining Mathys & Squire Consulting in 2018, he has led numerous intangible asset audits, IP brokerage, patent landscapes, competitive intelligence, IP strategy, portfolio management, and IP training projects. His focus is on helping innovative companies, universities, and government organizations create and execute intellectual asset strategies. He has contributed to various reports and co-led the PraxisAuril Research Contracts course. In 2020, he contributed a chapter on Blockchain and IP to the bestselling book Growing with Blockchain. He regularly speaks and trains globally on IP and contracts, including in the UK, China, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, and online in Turkey.