Tom French

Tom French, Legal Advisor

Recognized as one of "Silicon Valley's Best Business Lawyers" in a San Jose Magazine poll of industry attorneys, Tom French is a partner at the Palo Alto law firm of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich. Specializing in high technology-based business formations and intellectual property law, French has served as counsel primarily to semiconductor, and emerging technology and banking interests, among them SEMATECH, LearnMart.com, OffNet.net, Semiconductor Industry Association, Silicon Valley Bank, and Interprise Ventures. He currently chairs the firm's Commercial Law and Financial Institutions group. French is also an Executive Advisory Board member for the School of Technology and Industry at Golden Gate University and sits on the board of several non-profit charitable organizations. He is a graduate of Butler University and received his J.D. cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law.

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