Danny Marti oversees the global public affairs function at Tencent, managing a team across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Mr. Marti serves as a member of Tencent Americas Management Committee, and in the game space, he has served as Chairman at Ironhide Game Studio (Montevideo, Uruguay) and a Director at Tequila Works (Madrid, Spain). He is currently a Board Observer at Funcom (Oslo, Norway), best known its “Conan” and “Dune” video game series.
Before joining Tencent, Mr. Marti enjoyed a long career in both public and private service dedicated to intellectual property and innovation policy. In the public sector, Mr. Marti served as a senior White House official. Nominated by President Obama in 2014 to serve as the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, a position colloquially referred to as the “White House IP Czar,” Mr. Marti was unanimously (92-0) confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn into office by then-Vice President Biden. In this role, Mr. Marti officiated numerous multilateral initiatives, representing the Administration in frequent policy and strategy-setting discussions, summits, trade delegations, and bilateral meetings around the world. Under Mr. Marti’s leadership, the White House published the U.S. government’s Joint Strategic Plan on IP Enforcement (FY 2017-2019), titled: “Supporting Innovation, Creativity & Enterprise: Charting a Path Ahead.”
In the private sector, Mr. Marti has served the Head of Global Government Affairs at RELX, a London-based FTSE 100 company, as well as the Vice Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC). Earlier, Mr. Marti served as the Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office of a leading ‘AMLAW 100’ law firm.
Mr. Marti is a graduate of Georgetown University (BA), where his senior honors thesis was written under the mentorship of former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and Emory University School of Law (JD). As part of Emory University School of Law’s Centennial Anniversary (2017), Mr. Marti was honored as one of the 100 graduates over the past century “who have made extraordinary contributions to the law school and the world at large” by advancing the “rule of law.” Mr. Marti currently serves on the Emory Law Alumni Board, the Board of Directors at the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the Global IP Alliance (GLIPA).
