Matthew Fitzpatrick is Vice-President & Associate General Counsel – Health Care for P&G and is based in Cincinnati. He has worked in the legal department at P&G since 1996 in most of P&G’s business units starting as intellectual property counsel focusing on patent practice in P&G’s feminine care and baby care businesses. Between 2009 and 2012 Matt lived in Kobe, Japan with his family and was responsible for P&G’s intellectual property department and operations throughout Asia.
Between 2017-2019 he was based in Geneva, Switzlerland and had overall legal responsibility for P&G’s Fabric & Home Care sector, including IP, and was the European leader for P&G’s brand legal organization.
Matt is currently the chief P&G lawyer for the Health Care businessness and is accountable to the business president for legal advertising strategy, product registration and regulation, and associated dispute resolution