Ms. Gross is a member of the New York City Bar Association and served a three-year term as chair of its Patents Committee. She is also a member of the ABA, AIPLA and NYIPLA and has served on various committees of those organizations.
Ms. Gross worked as an engineer (including having major managerial responsibilities) for eight years after her graduation from MIT, during the latter portion of which she attended evening law school. She gained from her engineering experience real-world perspectives regarding the kinds of problems her corporate clients face and finding practical solutions to those problems.
Ms. Gross first worked at General Electric where she participated in GE’s Manufacturing Management Program. Thereafter, she worked at Millipore Corporation. At Millipore, She was the Manager of New Product Development. In that role, she managed the group responsible for bringing Millipore’s new chemical-related chromatography products from the research and development stage to full scale manufacture, in accordance with a schedule and a budget.