Senior Counsel
Beth Potthoff
Phone: 508-341-5705
Email: bpotthoff@outsidegc.com
Beth Potthoff brings more than 25 years of combined legal and business leadership
to the clients of Outside GC. Beth has served as Vice President, General Counsel and
Secretary to various public and private companies in the technology and biotechnology
sectors. As such, she has had complete responsibility for all corporate legal matters
including corporate governance, securities law compliance, litigation management and
intellectual property protection. Her extensive experience in negotiating complex
strategic relationships includes collaboration and licensing agreements as well as
mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Outside GC, Beth was a member of the senior
management team at Curis, Inc., a public biotechnology company. While at Curis,
Beth negotiated licensing agreements with collaborators that included Wyeth,
Genentech, Johnson & Johnson and Proctor & Gamble. Before Curis, Beth was the
fifth employee of Wheelhouse, Inc., a private company provider of internet-based,
customer relationship management software. Her other public-company positions
included Shiva Corporation, a pioneer in the development of remote access technology.
At Shiva, she managed the legal aspects of the company's successful initial public
offering and the acquisition of Spider Systems and Airsoft Corporation as well as
Shiva's merger with Intel. Prior to its acquisition by Network Systems, Beth also
served as General Counsel to Bytex Corporation, a public company supplier of local
and wide-area networking products. Before commencing her career as a corporate legal
generalist, Beth worked as a senior international tax attorney at
Wang Laboratories, Inc. where she supported offshore operations in Taiwan,
Puerto Rico and Ireland. During law school, she worked as a tax law consultant
at Ernst & Whinney (Ernst & Young) and as a law clerk with the Antitrust Division
of the Office of the Rhode Island Attorney General. She earned an M.B.A.
during the tenure of her earlier business career, which included finance
and manufacturing support positions at Raytheon Company and General Dynamics
Corporation. Beth earned her B.A. from the State University of New York,
an M.B.A. from Providence College and J.D. (cum laude) from Suffolk University.
She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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