Laurie Fitzgerald
Key details
- Job title: President
- Firm: Avanci Vehicles
- Jurisdiction: Ireland
Laurie Fitzgerald is president of Avanci Vehicle, a licensing group focused on vehicle technology.
In her role, she leads the company’s global one-stop patent licensing platforms for the automotive sector.
Fitzgerald joined Avanci Vehicle in a senior leadership role in 2021. She later became President of Avanci Vehicle.
She has spearheaded the highly successful rollout of the Avanci 5G Vehicle program, expanding its portfolio to encompass more than 150 automotive brands and 275 million connected vehicles worldwide.
Under the ‘One-Stop Shop’ model, she pioneered an efficient alternative to chaotic, multi-party legal battles. This resulted in an optional joint platform with transparent, uniform flat pricing, allowing automakers to secure worldwide licenses for thousands of essential patents at once, rather than negotiating individual bilateral deals with dozens of tech companies.
Throughout her leadership, she has successfully secured major industry breakthroughs by bringing previously platform-resistant giants like Huawei and BYD into the ecosystem.
Prior to her executive role at Avanci, Fitzgerald built a highly respected legal career spanning over a decade, which included serving as senior vice president of licensing at Teletry, a principal at McKool Smith, and clerking for the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas.