Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships
Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. George White is a native son of Southeast Washington, DC. Born to George White, Sr and Juanita Mary Tillman at Freedmans Hospital, now called Howard University Hospital. Dr. White is the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships in the office of the Vice President for Interdisciplinary Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. White provides expert support in developing strategies for expansion of the Institute's innovation collaboration with corporations, government, academia and historically black colleges and university and minority serving institutions, and national labs to supplement the research enterprise at Georgia Tech.

He has co-chaired a number of Georgia Tech’s strategic research initiatives across various technology sectors including Artificial Intelligence, Hypersonics, Biomanufacturing, Additive Manufacturing, Quantum Computing and Trusted Electronics in keeping with the GT vision of establishing a foundation for global leadership in these areas and more recently supported the establishment of the HBCU CHIPS Network and the Research Collaboration Forum both dedicated to increasing research collaboration with HBCUs. Dr. White works with faculty members, industry and non-profit partners to develop and sustain many of Georgia Tech’s strategic research initiatives and engagements.

He received his BA in Physics from Hampton University, and his M.S. and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign in Metallurgical Engineering. Dr. White is a serial entrepreneur having founded and sold Innovative Packaging Solutions, and Jacket Micro Devices. He has raised more over $22M in start-up capital. He has over 100 scholarly publications and 30 US and international patents. He has participated in the realization of more than $700M in research awards over the course of his career. He has worked in the microelectronics industry for over 30 years. Dr. White was the principal founder of Jacket Micro Devices (JMD), a supplier of RF and mixed signal modules and successful tenures at IBM, Motorola, and the AVX Corporation.