ANDREW WHITEHEAD

Andrew Whitehead is Assistant General Counsel at Genentech where he manages a team of IP attorneys supporting computational and personalized healthcare initiatives. This includes spearheading patent portfolio development, supporting external partnering, and developing internal open source and data protection best practices. Prior to Genentech, he was a patent attorney at a Silicon Valley law firm for just short of a decade, spending the first half of that time supporting technology companies and the latter half of that time supporting companies straddling the divide between the life sciences and high tech. 

Andrew earned his J.D. at George Washington University Law School and B.S. in Physics and Minor in Materials Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.