Claudia Brind-Woody Biography

Claudia Brind-Woody is the Vice President and Managing Director for IBM Global Intellectual Property and Advanced Technology Licensing. She is responsible for licensing and assignment of IBM patents and technologies to companies in the software services web technology and financial sectors. She also runs IBM’s Small Divestiture Practice and the specialized consulting group known as IP Management Services.
In addition Claudia serves as the co-chair of the IBM Executive LGBT Taskforce that focuses globally on the issues of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender employees in the workplace. She is an accomplished keynote speaker and serves on the Board of Directors of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates and co-chairs their International Advisory Committee. She has also served on the Lambda Legal Board of Directors and the John C. Stennis Institute of Government Board of Advisors.
In 2011 she received the “Out & Equal Trailblazer Award” for her work in LGBT diversity and was listed in GO Magazine’s “100 Women We Love Class of 2011”. In 2012 she received the “Emily Wirsing Kelly Leadership Award” from Mary Baldwin College and was named in The Guardian’s “WorldPride Power List Top 100”.

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