PolyNovo announced the appointment of Christine Emmanuel to the board of directors as Non-Executive Director. Christine is an accomplished patent and trademark attorney, and a business development professional with more than 30 years' experience both locally and internationally. Christine has a Bachelor of Science with a major in Economics from Monash University, Certificate in Intellectual Property Law from Queen Mary College, University of London, Masters of Enterprise from Melbourne University. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys UK and has been on the Board of the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia since 2010. Christine is currently Executive Manager of Business Development and Commercial at the CSIRO, having founded and led the management of CSIRO's IP portfolio and managed the growth of the CSIRO equity portfolio for the last 5 years. Previously she was in-house IP Counsel for Unilever in the UK and practised as a patent and trademark attorney for Wilson Gunn (UK) and Davies Collison Cave and Griffith Hack in Melbourne. Christine has extensive experience in strategic IP advisory, structuring, applying for and protecting IP for clients in her professional and commercial roles. She also has a proven track record in commercialising IP portfolios.