Gerry Deblasi

Gerry joined the IPValue board in 2018. He has served in a number of executive positions at intellectual property organizations, most recently as President and CEO of Sound View Innovations, LLC. Gerry was President and CEO of Round Rock Research, LLC for the past ten years, and Executive Vice President of Licensing at IPValue prior to joining Round Rock.

Prior to IPValue, Gerry served as Vice President for Intellectual Property & Law at Agere Systems Inc. During his four-year tenure at Agere, Mr. deBlasi was responsible for all aspects of intellectual property including licensing, patent assertion, patent and trade secret litigation, and patent prosecution. Gerry joined Agere from Lucent Technologies where he held the position of Managing Corporate Counsel, IP Transactions Law group, and General Counsel of Bell Laboratories. In addition, Gerry was IP Counsel at Bell Labs in AT&T Corp. He started his legal career as an associate at Fish & Neave in New York City.

Gerry holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Manhattan College, and Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law.