Mick Ryan is Director of Brand Cooperation at Alibaba Platform Governance. Mick's team is responsible for supporting IP rights holders to enforce their rights as effectively as possible on Alibaba’s various e-commerce platforms. This includes companies which are developing brand protection strategies using Alibaba tools such as the Intellectual Property Protection platform (the IPP), and those bringing cases for offline enforcement to the AIC or Chinese police.

During his 3+ years at Alibaba, Mick has led developments special cooperation programs for Chinese and foreign brands, including the Alibaba Anti-Counterfeiting Alliance (AACA). The AACA involves commitments and undertakings between Alibaba and brands to tackle IP challenges together in partnership, including finding new and innovative ways to work offline with law enforcement and the courts, using big data to strengthen proactive take downs (by Alibaba), and joint education of consumer groups and merchants. The AACA also convenes its membership into Industry Working Groups (IWGs), in order to pool resources and expertise for industry-wide initiatives, as well as to enable sharing of the latest IP trends and insights between brands.