Natalie Giroux

President, Intellectual Property

Natalie is a pragmatic achiever with extensive experience in the areas of strategic intellectual property management, network performance engineering, traffic management, technical due diligence.

Throughout her career she has combined deep technical knowledge with business insight and leadership skills to serve a variety of leading-edge start-up and large companies. Prior to acting as the Chief Scientist and IP strategist for Gridpoint Systems, she was a partner at Skypoint Capital where she provided support to the portfolio companies in the implementation of effective intellectual property strategies and managed patent litigations.

From 1997 to 2001, Natalie held various senior management positions with Newbridge Networks and Alcatel, culminating in her role as AVP Architecture and Technology.  During this period Natalie also managed the Lucent vs Newbridge litigation and provided vision and leadership to efficiently grow Newbridge’s valuable patent portfolio.