Our experts

Hugues has a MSc Econ from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris. After 7 years of economic research at the Swiss Institute of Technology, and 4 years at French macro-economic research center, Hugues worked as a Corporate Economist for the biggest automobile manufacturer in France. He has been very active in the French Economist Association (AFEDE) as President. He joined IP Twins in 2009.

With his economic and financial background, as CFO, he is in charge of planning and project and development.

During weekends, Hugues competes in swimming in his favorite 100m butterfly or 400m medley events, regularly bringing back medals to the office.

Doranne holds a Ph.D. from the Ateneo de Manila University and a degree from the prestigious Queen Mary University of London. She specializes in data privacy and protection, as well as in online brand protection.

She has just moved to Paris from Manila in search of faster Internet and cloudier skies, and joined IP Twins in 2018.

Outside the office, she spends her free time fixing other people's computers and looking for her iPhone charger.

Emmanuel holds a Ph.D. thesis, and master degrees in intellectual property (University of Montpellier I) and international arbitration (University of Versailles). He is qualified for the French bar (not registered). Before joining IP Twins in 2018, Emmanuel held an academic position at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Previously, he had organized an awareness campaign against counterfeiting in Hong Kong as a researcher within the European Union Academic Programme. Before joining the academic world, he had worked for nine years as an in-house counsel for a French domain name registrar.

Emmanuel created a blog on intellectual property and arbitration. There is also a series called IP in Movies (emmanuelgillet.com).

IP Twins benefits from the presence and work of Marco - one of our oldest employees - since 2006.

With his extensive experience of 13 years in the domain name industry, Marco is a talented account manager who has acquired and developed over the years excellent relationships with customers. He is also responsible for domain names renewals.

When he is not behind his keyboard, Marco travels and devotes himself to learning foreign languages. He speaks, to date, French, English, Spanish, Romanian, Hebrew and has solid bases in Turkish.

Shu-Yu holds dual Masters degree in public policy, one from Sciences Po Paris and the other from the University of Tokyo. He joins IP Twins in late 2019 after working in several public or international institutions in Taiwan, Paris and Tokyo.

Dedicated to client services, Shu-Yu pays scrupulous attention to the details of his work as account manager. He is mainly involved in searches, watches and anti-counterfeit strategies for online brand protection.

Passionate about gourmet delicacies of all kinds, he enjoys having his five meals a day. Outside of office, he is also an avid reader and museum aficionado.