Dr. Andre Gorius

Winnotek (France)

Andre Gorius graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris). After having obtained two PhDs and the Habilitation (Physics, Chemical Engineering), he occupied executive positions such as R&D Director and Industrial Director in France, USA and Italy, for more than 20 years.

From 2006 From 2006, he was Licensing Director, and created the position of Intellectual Assets Valorization Director he occupied until June 2019. In this position, he 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 for the Solvay Group. He is now an independent consultant in these fields, including IP & Finance. 

Starting in 2019, he now acts as an independent consultant and specializes in valuation of intangible assets and companies, in the general frames of Licensing, Technology Transfers, M&A, Transfer Pricing, Litigations, etc., always leveraging his scientific and technology background, and his in-depth understanding of the way enterprises manage their intangible assets, on scales ranging from start-ups to large multinationals. 

Among others, 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). He teaches IP Valuation to professionals on an international basis. He is a founding member and Board member of AMAVI (Association for Management and Valuation of Intangibles), presently chairs the LESI IP & Finance Task Force and acts as International IP Valuation Expert for WIPO. He is regularly invited as a speaker in high-level international events (e.g. WIPO IP Finance Dialogue 2023 (Geneva), IPOS IP Week 2024 (Singapore), FICPI Open Forum 2024 (Madrid), WIPF 2025 (Dubai), Indonesia International Valuation Conference 2025).