Geoffrey White

Geoffrey White is on the executive team at Advanced Construction Robotics, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He serves them in a variety of roles as they commercialize a wide range of robots transforming the construction industry. He also serves Grouse Ridge Capital, especially in finding investment opportunities that allow intellectual property to be commercialized, whether through early-stage funding or seeding new ventures based upon technology that previously did not scale.

Geoffrey has served as General Counsel, Chief IP Counsel, and on the Board of Directors for SilcoTek Corporation, a high-tech materials science company solving challenges for countless of the world’s largest and most innovative organizations (especially in the semiconductor, analytical instrumentation, life science, and energy industries).

Before joining SilcoTek Corporation, Geoffrey practiced as a patent attorney for McNees Wallace & Nurick, handling patent and other IP matters for startups through multi-billion dollar organizations.

Geoffrey has been named to IAM Strategy 300: The Worlds Leading IP Strategists multiple times, has spoken in countless venues on various aspects of value-focused IP strategy, and volunteers his time to a variety organizations. He is involved in wide variety of disciplines, with a balance between his role as an attorney, an IP strategist, and a manufacturing executive. Geoffrey has a true passion for value-enhancement of patents, with a focus on supporting organizational strategies, whether they be revenue production, licensing, enforcement, or business model innovation. In these roles, he applies his experience and his education, which includes an MBA from Cambridge, an IP LLM from George Washington, a JD from Widener, and a BS in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently collaborating on research with the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing, Center for Technology Management, Innovation and IP Management group.