Willem Geert Lagemaat is CEO of Univentio, a LexisNexis company with its headquarters in the Netherlands that specialises in building bibliographic, full text and image patent databases for the online, intermediary and end-user IP communities. After graduating from his technical university (HTS), Willem joined Univentio in 1993 and was appointed CEO of Univentio in 1996. Since 2005 Univentio is part of the LexisNexis group of companies, and Willem has additionally been appointed senior director of global IP product strategy. Univentio was originally founded by his father in 1952. Since 2004 Willem has been President of PatCom, the association of commercial patent information service providers.