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Meet your Expert:
André Gorius graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, 1985), where he obtained a PhD and became « Professeur Agrégé » in Physics. In 1988, he obtained a PhD and Habilitation (“Doctorat d’Etat ès Sciences”) in Chemical Engineering.
During his career in the Solvay Group since more than 30 years, he occupied various management positions such as R&D Director and Industrial Director in France, USA and Italy.
From 2006, he has been involved in the economic aspects of technology transfers, was Licensing Director, and created the position of Intellectual Assets Valorization Director he occupied until June 2019. In this position, I was in charge of all IP valuations concerning M&A, Acquisition, Sale and Licensing of IP assets, Tax and Transfer Pricing, and as a support to litigations.
He specializes in valuation of intangible and IP assets and start-ups, in the general frames of Technology Transfers, Merge & Acquisitions, and Transfer Pricing, Litigations, etc., always leveraging his scientific and technology background to assess the underlying technology strengths and weaknesses, and the way enterprises manage these assets. He also performs numerous valuations of companies. The spectrum of his activities ranges from start-ups in creation to SMEs and large multinational enterprises (>$20 Billion sales).
Dr Gorius created in 2016 the IP Valuation Committee of LES France (Licensing Executives Society France), and chaired the worldwide LESI IP Valuation Committee (2017-2022). Dr Gorius has created in 2021 the Intangible Assets Valuation course at EMLyon Business school (France), and teaches IP Valuation to professionals on an international basis, for example in TU Wien (Vienna, Austria, 2021), National University of Singapore (2022) and DOST-PCAARD and LES Philippines (2023: 2 sessions). He is a founding member and Board member of AMAVI (Association for Management and Valuation of Intangibles).