Advisory Board: Andy Updegrove

Andrew Updegrove is a founding partner of the Boston law firm of Gesmer Updegrove LLP. Since 1988 he has worked with over 235 consortia, most of which he helped form. He has testified before the United States Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Congressional and state committees, and EU Parliamentary legislative committees regarding consortia, intellectual property and standard setting, and has filed pro bono “friend of the court” briefs with the Federal Circuit Court, Supreme Court, and Federal Trade Commission on leading standards litigation. In 2002, he launched ConsortiumInfo.org, an extensive resource dedicated to consortia, and standard setting and in 2003 the widely read Standards Blog. In 2004 he was asked to join the United States Standards Strategy revision committee and has served on each review committee thereafter. He received the President’s Award for Journalism from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 2005, and the Chairman’s Award for “outstanding accomplishments on behalf of ANSI” in 2025. He has served as a member of the Boards of Directors of ANSI, the Free Standards Group, the Linux Foundation and WorkCred; on the Advisory Board of HL7, an ANSI accredited health standards developer and of Open Source for America; as a Charter Fellow of OpenForum Europe, a think tank advising the EU and member states on open technology policy matters; and as the first Chair of the Technology Consortium Council, hosted by ANSI. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Cornell University Law School.