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This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Telecommunications space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Greg O’Connor
Vice President, Network Core and Access of Sprint
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Charles McKee
Vice President, Government Affairs Federal and State Regulatory of Sprint
Vice President, Government Affairs Federal and State Regulatory at Sprint.
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Manish Goyal
SVP of Revenue and Base Management of Sprint
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About Berkshire Partners, Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Joseph Martin
VP, Wireless Solution Enablement of Sprint
Joseph Martin is Vice President–Wireless Solutions Enablement at Sprint Business. Joe manages an organization that provides advanced wireless business solution sales support across all channels & segments. He is responsible for a dedicated Sprint Business Contact Center in Denver (WSTS) for managed customer trials–Sprint Try-BuySM, all SaaS deployments and the delivery of Sprint Care Free CloudSM. Joe started his career with the Department of Energy. Joe began his career with Sprint as part of Carolina Telephone & Telegraph in 1988 and held positions responsible for Sales & Service focused in the “edge-out” markets. He also served as Director, Sales & Service, for business customers at United Telephone of Florida, and was heavily involved with the first Sprint CLEC (Orlando), with direct responsibility for LD field sales. Joe has extensive experience in the “inter-connect” business, customer premise equipment, cable television consulting for municipal and county government, including primary market research. Joe attended undergraduate school at Virginia Tech and graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Joe resides in Overland Park, Kansas, near the Sprint HQ, with his wife of 40 years, Randolph.
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Ron Marquardt
VP of Technology of Sprint
As Vice President of Technology for Sprint, Dr. Marquardt is responsible for Sprint’s long-term technology strategy and architecture, the industry relationships and investments enabling Sprint’s innovation and ecosystem development goals, as well as the company’s advocacy in US and global industry forums and standards bodies. He also represents Sprint at speaking engagements, in press and analyst interviews, and as needed with regulatory bodies and other industry stakeholders. Prior to Sprint, Dr. Marquardt was VP of Technology Development at Clearwire Corporation, responsible for that company’s technology strategy as well as the architecture, design, testing, and implementation of its mobile broadband 4G network, devices, and services. He also was CTO at Covad Communications where he led teams responsible for the engineering and network planning of VoIP, wireless, and broadband services across the United States. Prior to that role, he was in various positions at network equipment manufacturers. Dr. Marquardt has an S.B. in Physics from MIT, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Bryan Fries
VP – 5G Marketing Strategy + Global Services of Sprint
Bryan Fries leads Sprint’s 5G market strategy and ecosystem development. He engages with current and prospective industry partners to understand how consumers will use 5G, identifying areas where Sprint’s assets and capabilities are uniquely suited to meet those needs. He is particularly passionate about 5G’s intersection with gaming and eSports.
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About Sprint: Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, and government users.
Eugina Jordan
VP of Marketing of Parallel Wireless
Eugina Jordan is the VP of Marketing at Parallel Wireless.
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About Parallel Wireless: Parallel Wireless designs and maintains cellular networks.
Michael Wheeler
EVP – Global IP Network of NTT Communications
Michael Wheeler is the Executive Vice President of Global IP Network at NTT America, , a subsidiary of NTT Communications. Michael is responsible for all financial, engineering, operational and customer relationship activities for the Global IP Network (GIN) business unit. Prior to his current role, Michael led the GIN sales and business development organization, including direct sales, account management, indirect channel sales, sales engineering, marketing, product management and business development activities. Michael was part of the original start up team with Verio in 1997, where he led several different sales organizations. Michael transitioned to a leadership role at NTT America following the acquisition of Verio by NTT America’s parent company, NTT Communications, in August of 2000. Michael earned his B.A. degree from Northwest University.
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About NTT Communications: NTT Communications is a provider of network management and security services.
Neeraj Sahejpal
Senior Vice President of Marketing & Strategy of Energous Corporation
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Sanyogita Shamsunder
Vice President Of Product Innovation of Verizon Wireless
Sanyogita Shamsunder is the Vice President of Technology Development and 5G Labs at Verizon. Previously, she was Director of Advanced Wireless and Mobile Technology Planning, and has led the 5G network planning and Device Technologies teams at Verizon. Sanyogita has directed and managed teams in all areas of the wireless business, including silicon, and network technology development, marketing, planning and strategy. Sanyogita received an MBA from The Wharton School, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Math from The University of Virginia.
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About Verizon, Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Ed Chan
Senior Vice President – Chief Network Engineering Officer of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Joan T. Bowyer
Vice President, Customer Service of Verizon Wireless
Joan T. Bowyer is vice president of Midwest Area Customer Service for Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless company in the United States, with responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day operations for the area’s seven customer service centers that primarily support customers in the Midwest Area including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin. A premier technology company, Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s largest and most reliable 4G LTE network. Bowyer began her wireless career in 1997 in human resources and has held positions of increasing responsibility with Verizon Wireless including director of compensation, before being promoted to executive director of Midwest Human Resources in 2002. In her most recent position, Bowyer was responsible for employee training and communications. Bowyer earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychobiology from Pitzer College in Claremont, California.
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Monica Hammond
Vice President of Business and Government Customer Operations of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Nasrin Rezai
SVP, Chief Information Security Officer of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Elise Neel
VP, New Business Incubation of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Steve Smith
Senior Vice President – Corporate Finance of Verizon Wireless
Steve Smith is senior vice president of business development for Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless company in the United States, with responsibility for the company’s merger and acquisition activity, expanding the company’s national footprint and acquiring additional radio frequency spectrum for new products and services. A premier technology company, Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s largest and most reliable 4G LTE network. Before assuming his current position, Smith served as chief financial officer for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, responsible for overseeing strategic and financial planning. Previously, he served as president of the South Central Region for Verizon Wireless, responsible for directing sales, operations, financial performance and marketing for the region. With more than 20 years of telecommunications experience, Smith has held a variety of senior leadership positions at Verizon and its legacy companies, including vice president of transition planning and staff vice president of strategic and financial planning for Verizon Wireless. He also served as group vice president of international finance and director of international strategic planning for Verizon. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in mechanical engineering technology from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an MBA with honors from the University of Rochester. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Heidi Hemmer
VP Technology of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
John Granby
SVP consumer Sales of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Michelle Miller
Vice President – Retail Sales & Operations of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
David Young
VP Public Policy of Verizon Wireless
David E. Young is Vice President for Public Policy at Verizon. Young is responsible for identifying and assessing emerging issues, developing corporate positions on Internet and Technology industry policy matters, and assessing key technology and communications industry trends. He is also responsible for developing relationships with high technology industry members, technology associations, research institutes, and think tanks. Previously, he was responsible for items before the FCC dealing with broadband and emerging issues. Prior to 2000, he spent six years working in Verizon’s Research and Development (R&D) group on many advanced technologies including VoIP, data network architectures, and audio, video and image compression. He has been awarded ten U.S. government patents for his R&D work. David is a member of the IEEE and IEEE Communications Society. Young holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Archana Jain
Vice President Information Technology of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Victoria Lonker
Vice President Of Public Sector Solutions & Product Management of Verizon Wireless
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Nicki Palmer
Senior Vice President of Technology & Product Development of Verizon Wireless
Nicola Palmer is the senior vice president of technology and product development at Verizon.
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About Verizon Wireless: Verizon Wireless offers wireless telecommunications services, devices, and solutions.
Sriniketh Chakravarthi
SVP and Head of BFSI and Enterprise Alliances, Americas of Tech Mahindra
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About Tech Mahindra: Tech Mahindra is a global systems integrator and is a part of the Mahindra Group.
Krishna Balasubramaniam
SVP and Business Group Head, Aerospace and Automotive of Tech Mahindra
Krishna Balasubramaniam is an Engineering and IT Services Professional and an AI /ML Enthusiast. He has been part of the Tech Mahindra Family for 22 years and is currently SVP and Business Group Head – Aerospace and Automotive in Tech Mahindra Americas Inc. His fields of interest includes Machine Learning, Neural Networks and Deep Learning Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization where he is considered an expert. He completed his B.Tech from Anna University in Electronics · (1994 – 1997).
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About Tech Mahindra: Tech Mahindra is a global systems integrator and is a part of the Mahindra Group.
Joseph Henaan
VP of Engineering of Green Key Technologies
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About Green Key Technologies: GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
John Taylor
Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications of LG Electronics
John I. Taylor is Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications for LG Electronics USA, Inc. Active in ATSC activities for decades, Taylor currently serves as ATSC Communications Chairman in addition to his role as a member of the ATSC Board of Directors. He represents LG Electronics on the Video Division Board of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). He is Chairman of the CEA Communications Committee and co-Chair of the CEA 4K Ultra HD Working Group, and he serves on the CEA Foundation Board of Trustees. Taylor also is a member of the boards of directors of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, The Media Institute and the Library of American Broadcasting. His industry experience included serving as Chairman of the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance public affairs group, past Chairman of the CEA Video Division and former Chairman of the CEA HDTV Promotion Committee.He co-founded the Digital TV Transition Coalition and Plasma Display Coalition and previously served on the boards of the ATSC Forum and the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Active in digital television since 1988, Taylor is a charter member of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and recipient of its highest honor, the Industry Leadership Award. Among other industry honors, Taylor received the 2014 AHAM Distinguished Service Award and was inducted into the Dealerscope Hall of Fame in 2015, largely for his work related to digital television.Since 2000, he has served as LG’s senior U.S. industry relations and government affairs executive. Taylor represents the company before the U.S. government and in industry organizations. He also is chief media spokesman and public relations strategist for LG Electronics in the United States. Taylor joined Zenith in 1981 and was named the company’s senior public affairs executive in 1987 and a corporate officer in 1993. (Zenith merged with LG Electronics in 1999.)A former newspaper reporter, he earned an M.S. degree from the Medill Graduate School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and a B.A. from DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.
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Samuel Chang
SVP LG electronics US / Corporate Vice President LG HQ of LG Electronics
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Mohak Shah
VP & AI and Machine Learning of LG Electronics
Mohak Shah is an analytics leader and research scientist with significant experience in organization formation, strategy, and end-to-end data science engagements. He has participated in functional and strategic capacity in developing high-performing organizations in the analytics space. As a scientist, Mohak has developed novel machine learning and statistical algorithms, with high impact application in industrial domains, healthcare, bioinformatics and neurosciences. He is co-author of “Evaluating Learning Algorithms: A Classification Perspective” (Cambridge), and has authored more than 35 articles in top conferences and journals in the analytics space. He currently leads Data Science at Bosch.
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Henry Chung
Vice President and Corporate Venture Capital of LG Electronics
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Doug Clark
Assistant Vice President – FirstNet State Outreach and Consultation of AT&T
Doug Clark is responsible for a team that engages with district / state & territories to consult on providing FirstNet based on specific state first responder needs. His special focus areas include LMR-LTE interoperability, mobile data communications, deployable technology & mobile security. Doug has 16 years of telecommunications experience, including business development, consulting and sales leadership roles at AT&T. In his career at AT&T he has been responsible for delivering advanced connectivity solutions across Public Safety and Government customers. A majority of his focus has been delivering wireless solutions including mobile VPNs, fleet management, workforce management, and LMR-LTE interoperability. Doug engaged early in BC14 discussions in 2009 and led the development of AT&T’s LMR-LTE interoperability strategy until his appointment to the FirstNet team. Doug holds Bachelors degrees from the Ball State University in marketing and history as well as a Master’s of Science in Information & Communication Sciences. In addition Doug holds a MBA from the Kennesaw State University. He has been a speaker at events including IWCE, IACP, APCO, NENA, LEIM, NOBLE, IJIS & NASTD. He lives in Dallas with his wife and has three daughters.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Kevin Petersen
SVP Wireless Product Marketing of AT&T
Kevin Petersen has a broad portfolio of responsibilities including delivering advanced network and communication products and services integrated with the industry’s leading portfolio of mobile devices and accessories, providing developers and content creators the tools, platforms, and best practices to deliver great mobile app and entertainment experiences, and capital planning for the AT&T Mobility and Entertainment Group. Prior to this role, Kevin has held a variety of high-level positions in Finance, Corporate Strategy, and Market Leadership. Most recently Kevin served as the senior vice president for AT&T Digital Life services where he led a start-up business from ideation to launch in a new segment for AT&T offering home security, home automation, home healthcare, energy management, and international wholesale services. As a 25-year veteran of the industry, and a graduate of AT&T’s Leadership Development Program, Kevin’s experience ranges from leading cross-functional teams to develop, analyze and present long term strategies to leading large teams achieving goals and generating hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue for AT&T. Kevin has leadership expertise in Finance, Strategic Planning, Business Development and Large Team Leadership. Kevin currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame, Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and the Oglethorpe University’s President’s Advisory Council. A native of St. Louis, Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree from Missouri State University and a master’s degree from St. Louis University. He and his wife Nora have five children.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
William A. Blase
Senior EVP, HR of AT&T
Bill Blase is senior executive vice president-Human Resources, with responsibility for the development and implementation of human resources policies and practices in support of AT&T’s global workforce, as well as the company’s relationship with the unions that represent AT&T employees. From December 2005 to June 2007, Mr. Blase served as executive vice president-Labor Relations. Before that, he was president and chief executive officer of SBC Southwest, where he was responsible for overall leadership in the SBC Southwest and SBC Southern New England Telephone (SNET) regions, including network, consumer and business sales and external affairs. From April 2001 to June 2003, Mr. Blase served as president and CEO of SBC SNET, with overall responsibility for the company’s wireline operations in Connecticut. Previously, Mr. Blase was president-External Affairs for Pacific Bell, where he was responsible for all regulatory, legislative, governmental and external affairs activities. Mr. Blase began his career with SBC at Southwestern Bell in 1979 as a customer services supervisor in the Business Marketing Organization in St. Louis. After holding a variety of positions in the marketing, revenues and public affairs organizations for Southwestern Bell and in investor relations for SBC, he became director-Federal Regulatory for SBC in Washington, D.C. In 1994, Mr. Blase was appointed executive director-Regulatory Matters for Southwestern Bell in Kansas and returned to St. Louis two years later as managing director-Regulatory and External Affairs for SBC. He became President-Kansas for Southwestern Bell in 1997. Later that year, he was appointed vice president-Regulatory for Pacific Bell, where he was responsible for state regulatory relations, strategy and implementation for formal proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission and the development of regulatory public policy. Mr. Blase is a member of the board of trustees at St. Louis University and is also a board member of Loyola University and the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. He also serves on the boards of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Animal Rescue Foundation. Mr. Blase was born and raised in St. Louis. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Loyola University, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Missouri at St. Louis and a doctorate in business administration from St. Louis University. In addition, he is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has served as an adjunct professor of finance at George Mason University.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Joni Arison
Senior Vice President, Finance Services of AT&T
Joni Arison is senior vice president of Finance Services. She was appointed to this position in August 2017. Joni is responsible for call center strategy, operations, and shared services activities that support AT&T Communications including revenue cycle operations, risk management, workers’ compensation, claims management, transaction tax compliance, and subpoena processing. Prior to this role, she held numerous leadership positions including: senior vice president of Emerging Consumer Markets, Small Markets Solutions, and Advertising Solution Sales. Joni also served as chief marketing officer for Home Solutions and Small Business Marketing responsible for wireline marketing, product definition, lifecycle management, customer experience and key consumer and business marketing programs. Joni is a member and mentor of Women of AT&T, AT&T Women of Finance, AT&T Women of Business and a National Advisory Board Member for the AT&T employee resource groups OxyGEN and AT&T Veterans. Joni is a supporter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and has participated in the very special Breast Cancer 3-day walk. She also serves as a board member for WiNGS of Dallas. After graduating from Quinnipiac University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in business management, Joni earned a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in marketing from the University of New Haven. Now residing in Southlake, Texas, Joni enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Joe Mosele
Vice President: Mobility of AT&T
Joe Mosele – Vice President of AT&T’s Internet of Things Solutions. Joe leads the global business development and account management team.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Bill Hague
Executive Vice President Global of AT&T
Bill Hague, Executive Vice President Global Connection Management, is responsible for developing both international and domestic strategy and partnerships around network access and connection agreements. These areas include domestic and international wholesale and retail roaming support, global and national access management and international voice termination. He also manages the company’s wireless operations in the cruise ship business, company wireless merger integrations and global wireless resale operations. Hague had previously served as Executive Vice President-International Development, responsible for developing and implementing international partner and roaming strategies for voice and data for both Cingular Wireless and the former AT&T Wireless, before it was acquired by Cingular. Hague previously managed the former AT&T Wireless’ mergers and acquisitions department on both the national and international front; part of his duties included managing strategic investments. Prior to joining AT&T Wireless, Hague was with Pacific Northwest Cellular/Western Wireless Communications where he headed legal, human resources and regulatory affairs. Prior to that time, he served as a partner at the law firm of Stokes, Eitelbach & Lawrence. Hague currently serves on the board of directors of the global GSM Association, is the Chairman of the GSMA Finance Committee and is Chairman of the GSMA Ltd. He is also president of the African Education Foundation, a private foundation he established in 1980, after serving in the Peace Corps in West Africa. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Colorado, a Master’s Degree in Health Administration and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Washington.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Johannes Jaskolski
Assistant Vice President of AT&T
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Andrew Goodman
Vice President, Content Partnerships of AT&T
Andrew is VP of Content Partnerships for AT&T, where he is responsible for managing content partnerships across traditional and software based pay TV systems, mobile devices, and data bundles. In this role, he balances strategic planning, business development, and product innovation with partner engagement. Most recently, he oversaw AT&T’s partnership with HBO Max, including the go-to-market (GTM) strategy and terms for bundling HBO Max with AT&T’s mobile and broadband assets. His work focuses on expanding the digital entertainment experience through mobile and over the top video initiatives (OTT), multi-screen extensions for subscribers of DIRECTV and U-verse Television (TV Everywhere), and other emerging technologies such as 4K UHD, leading cross functional teams to bring innovative new streaming video products to market. He also oversees AT&T’s relationships with Premium TV Networks (e.g., HBO), SVOD services (e.g. Netflix), and works closely with AT&T and The Chernin Group’s joint venture, Otter Media, focusing on video investments for a digital native audience. Andrew is a frequent speaker and panelist at technology and media industry conferences. Before joining AT&T, Andrew was a Manager in the technology, media, and telecom practice of Deloitte Consulting, where he focused on helping film studios and other large media companies manage the transition from analog to digital. Andrew began his career working in film development for director Robert Zemeckis’s ImageMovers. Andrew received his MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Theater and Political Science from Amherst College.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Karim Lesina
Senior Vice President International External and Regulatory Affairs of AT&T
Karim Antonio Lesina is the Vice President of AT&T, covering International External Affairs for the European Union, Caribbean, Central and Latin America Regions and in charge of Trans-Atlantic Relations. In this role he leads AT&T’s advocacy in those regions. AT&T is a premier global communications company, providing wholesale services and mobile roaming services to over 220 countries and territories, and providing business enterprise services to countries representing over 99 percent of the world’s economy. In addition to developing and implementing market access strategies to enable AT&T’s global expansion to satisfy customer needs, other responsibilities for Mr. Lesina include ensuring compliance with international telecom regulations, and advocacy on a wide range policymatters related to the stable growth, innovation and investment by the information and communications technology sector. Mr. Lesina is based in AT&T’s Brussels (Belgium) office. He is an active member in several industry and community organizations, including current service as: Vice Chair of the Board of of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU and Chair of the Presidency Group of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU. He is a Board Member of the European Internet Foundation and of the Transatlantic BusinessCouncil and also President of the Association EGO. He also represents AT&T in different associations such as ETNO, GSMA, TPN, etc. Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Lesina held senior positions with another leading US-headquartered ICT company (Intel Corporation), and a number of leading public affairs agencies in Brussels. Born in Dakar (Senegal) Mr. Lesina is an Italian-Tunisian national and has a Master Degree in Economics of development at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Robert Boyanovsky
Vice President Enterprise Mobility Product Management of AT&T
Robert Boyanovsky is Vice President of Enterprise Mobility at AT&T Business. He oversees all aspects of product management supporting AT&T’s mobility business customers. In a highly competitive market, Robert creates and implements new strategies to improve products, reach new customers and differentiate offers while driving revenue and operating income. Robert has over 20 years of telecommunication experience including positions in consumer, business, marketing, sales and operations, wireline, wireless and eCommerce at AT&T plus Cellular One and Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Charles Merrin
AVP, CRU & Small Business of AT&T
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Marian Croak
Vice President of AT&T
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Jill Singer
Vice President, National Security of AT&T
Jill Singer leads AT&T Global Business across the national security community, overseeing delivery of strategic technology solutions/services to national security agencies. Prior to AT&T, Jill was a partner with Deep Water Point consulting firm and served on several advisory boards for companies in the federal space. In government, she served as chief information officer (CIO) for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), deputy CIO for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and director of the Diplomatic Telecommunications Service for Department of State (DoS). Her awards include Wash100, CloudNow, Top Ten Global Breakaway CIO, and Top Ten Women in Cloud.
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About AT&T, AT&T, AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Mike Troiano
Vice President – Corporate Strategy and Business Development of AT&T
Mike Troiano is currently responsible for AT&T’s Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) organization, including Business Development, Product Management and Strategy for products including AT&T M2X. Mike previously led AT&T’s Advanced Mobility Solutions Product Management organization.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Jason Porter
VP Security Solutions of AT&T
Jason Porter currently leads AT&T’s cyber security business. He is responsible for driving growth and profitability for the AT&T Security portfolio, consisting of network, premise, cloud and mobile security products, threat management and consulting. He leads a large team consisting of Sales, Product, Marketing and Consulting leaders. Since joining AT&T in 2002, Jason has held various leadership positions in Engineering, Strategy, Operations and Marketing spanning consumer and business. He maintains a track record of successfully introducing and maturing emerging technologies and business units as well as transforming businesses. Previously, Jason Porter was Vice President of DevOps for AT&T Partner Solutions where he was responsible for driving Pofitability and growth of the AT&T Partner Exchange channel. He and his team launched over 25 products, reduced cycle times by 75% and transformed the user experience to earn one of the highest Net Promoter Scores in the industry. Prior to that role, Jason Porter was AVP, Business Development for AT&T Business Solutions, responsible for evaluating and forming strategic cloud partnerships to extend AT&T’s market share, develop differentiating features and scale the As a Service business. Jason also was the AVP of Mobility Service Operations for AT&T Global Network Operations. He was responsible for the health, maintenance and growth of voice and data services for over 80 million worldwide wireless subscribers. In this role, Jason successfully introduced products and services such as the 3G MicroCell, Location Based Services, and devices including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Kindle. Prior to his role in AT&T Mobility, Jason was Director of U-verse Operations, responsible for crafting and executing a strategy to introduce a first ever technology and grow it to a scalable solution. He created and executed an “Incubation Center” concept founded in the end-to-end customer experience, maximizing rapid learning and establishing operational discipline in a nascent environment. Jason’s leadership in U-verse resulted in numerous patents, awards, and enabled the growth of the first million U-verse customers. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from The United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Regis University. He served in the Army as an Armor Officer, leading a Tank Platoon and a Mortar Platoon. He and his wife, Tiffany, have three children and currently reside in Frisco, Texas.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Michael Zeto
Vice President of IoT Solutions and General Manager of Smart Cities of AT&T
Michael leads Boingo’s corporate strategy and growth initiatives, responsible for capitalizing on the company’s unique position in the wireless industry. He is focused on driving new opportunities across 5G, CBRS, Wi-Fi 6, IoT and smart cities. A seasoned corporate executive, Michael has a successful track record for building new businesses and creating profitable growth. Prior to Boingo, he was Vice President, Internet of Things Solutions, and Founder and General Manager for AT&T’s Smart Cities and emerging IoT solutions. Before joining AT&T, Michael co-founded and served as CEO of Proximus Mobility and previously held leadership positions with top technology companies. Michael serves on the Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Chamber and Technology Association of Georgia. He holds an MBA from Florida Gulf Coast University and BA from Wilkes University.
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About AT&T, Boingo Wireless: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Tad Reynes
Regional Vice President, Healthcare Solutions of AT&T
Tad brings more than 20 years of experience in sales, sales management, alternate channels, equipment and maintenance solutions, technical support, and product management. Tad presently serves as a Regional Vice President in the Internet of Things organization within AT&T. He is responsible for coordinating product strategy across AT&T’s enterprise healthcare portfolio and business development efforts with medical device manufacturers. Tad is responsible for identifying industry trends and developing best-in-class solutions for AT&T’s healthcare customers and developers. Tad’s experience has focused on development and delivery of solutions within Fortune 500 Companies, large Healthcare Entities and Government and Education Institutions. Tad has an extensive background in enterprise sales management, technical and overlay sales support and product management. Prior to working in product management for AT&T, Tad led AT&T’s equipment and solutions organization in the Government, Education and Medical division. Tad has held several additional positions within AT&T, including Director of Alternate Channels, Director of the State of IL and Associated Accounts, Director of Field Marketing and Director of Sales and Channel Support.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Todd Waskelis
AVP, AT&T Cybersecurity Solutions of AT&T
Todd Waskelis leads the AT&T Cybersecurity Consulting business and is responsible for the strategic direction, business operations and P&L operations of the group. Todd’s organization provides both strategic and tactical cybersecurity consulting services to businesses as well as government agencies covering a wide spectrum of offerings from compliance and risk management to technical services for emerging technologies such as IoT, cloud, and mobility. His career focus has been on helping customers drive business benefit through the exploitation of technology and driving improvements in organizations while sustaining security, managing compliance and mitigating risk. Todd joined AT&T Cybersecurity Consulting through the acquisition of VeriSign in October 2009, where he performed the same duties as the Vice President & General Manager of VeriSign’s Global Security Consulting organization. With active professional certifications and more than two decades of experience, and an enviable knowledge of business and technology Todd has earned the respect of global, top-named clients and industry insiders. Todd’s understanding of business has enabled him to create innovative solutions for his customers that align with key organizational objectives. Utilizing his keen business insights and ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, Todd has been able to collaborate with corporations to analyze, develop and implement enterprise-wide cybersecurity solutions that support key business drivers. Todd has worked with clients in the financial, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, transportation, service provision and industrial sectors. He manages a multi-million dollar consulting practice while leading a highly successful team of security consultants that serve customers across the globe. Todd has been invited to speak to security conferences, advisory councils across industry verticals including healthcare, financial and has participated in numerous industry forums. In addition to holding Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) certification, Todd Waskelis is also a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) for the Payment Card Industry and serves on the board of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). Todd Waskelis’ experience is the result of more than 25 years of operations leadership at various organizations and over 20 years of information security experience. Todd Waskelis holds a B.S. in Management, Information Technology and has extensive experience in media relations including radio, press and live television appearances.
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About Aphinia, AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Josh Goodell
VP, Intelligent Edge of AT&T
Josh Goodell is currently delivering market-leading capabilities that provide AT&T’s business customers dynamic, virtualized and intelligent edge solutions. With a focus on both premise and cloud technologies, Josh is expanding AT&T’s core networking value proposition to customer’s endpoints by delivering on the promises of software-defined networking – improved end-to-end performance, security and control. Over his tenure with AT&T, Josh has focused on driving transformation at scale. Prior to his current role, Josh led the initiative to redefine the way AT&T Business delivers software-centric solutions. In 2014, Josh debuted AT&T’s first deployment of software-defined networking capability, AT&T Switched Ethernet on Demand. Recognized as one of AT&T’s largest and most complex Agile Development transformations, his team scaled the service to over 1,000 customer networks across 170 metropolitan areas within 10 months. He was recognized for his work by FierceTelecom, with the publication naming him an “Emerging Innovator in Wireline: Future leaders to watch in 2015.” Josh later introduced the company’s first virtualized service, AT&T Dedicated Internet on Demand in over 170 metropolitan areas in a matter of months. He then expanded AT&T’s virtualized offerings by spearheading the delivery of AT&T’s first global software-based solution AT&T FlexWareSM in July 2016. Under Josh’s leadership, FlexWare has expanded to more than 200 countries, and continues to add new virtual network function (VNF) options for its customers. AT&T Network on Demand solutions are now being used in more than 6,000 locations across the globe, and have received many industry awards from leading publications such as Light Reading and FierceTelecom, to technology associations like MEF. Prior to leading Network on Demand, Josh initiated the transformation of AT&T’s Wi-Fi business to drive growth in a highly competitive environment. He introduced new business models such as Analytics as a Service and Advertising Monetization while shifting the architecture to a cloud model to reduce the overall cost of customer solutions. A proven operator, Josh led a large network operations team that provided core AT&T services to customers. His teams’ consistently rated in the top 25 percentile across the company. He also led large call center teams and was one of two general managers recognized for “Going Beyond the Call” for his work leading force operations within all of California’s consumer organization. Josh enjoys mentoring managers across the business and was recently selected to promote diversity and gender equality throughout AT&T. Josh has served on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement in Northern California. A California native, he earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology and Psychology from The University of California at Irvine.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Roshen Matthew
AVP of Digital Media and Emerging Technology of AT&T
Roshen Matthew is an AVP of digital media and emerging technology at AT&T.
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Hank Hultquist
Vice President-Federal Regulatory of AT&T
Vice President of Federal Regulatory, Hank Hultquist represents AT&T at the Federal Communications Commission on a number of issues, including spectrum and wireless policy, Internet and broadband policy, interconnection, and intercarrier compensation. Hank joined AT&T in 2004. Prior to joining AT&T, Hank was with MCI for eight years. He serves on the Board of Directors for the National Exchange Carrier Association. Hank is a graduate of the George Mason University School of Law and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He resides in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two children.
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About AT&T: AT&T is a telecommunications company that provides wireless communications, local exchange, and long-distance services.
Oksana Schwartz
VP Initiative and Program Management of Ultra Mobile
Oksana Schwartz is the VP of Inititiave Management at Ultra Mobile, leading the Initiative Management team to build and support the right products for Ultra’s portfolio of brands including Ultra Mobile, Mint SIM and CampusSIM. Prior to Ultra, Oksana began her career as a software engineer at Intelius, then spent nearly five years at DEFY Media progressing from QA Engineer, to Scrum Master to Senior Product Manager. Oksana has a dual Bachelor of Computer Science and Mathematics from California State University, and is highly trained in Agile Methodology, and has successfully implemented these systems across three Engineering teams throughout her career. Ultra Mobile a nationwide carrier, was named the fastest-growing private company in 2015, winning the coveted top spot on the Inc. 5000, with a 3-year growth of 100,000% and annual revenues of $118 million.
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About Ultra Mobile: Branded mobile carrier offering cost-effective unlimited talk, text and data services in the US market.
Meghan Keough
Global Vice President of Corporate and Product Marketing of 8×8
She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics and Information Systems from Boston College.
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Rob Pilgrim
Global VP, Product Management & Business Applications of 8×8
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About 8×8, MobileIron: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Darren Hakeman
SVP, Strategy, Analytics & Corp Dev of 8×8
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Brian Sax
Senior Vice President of ACN
Brian Sax is a successful professional in the world of network marketing that, as an IBO, has achieved SVP status at ACN. He has goals to do a whole lot more in the future, including: making a difference in thousands of people’s lives, helping to open many more countries for ACN, assisting more people to achieve the Regional Vice President (RVP) and SVP levels within the Company, and helping ACN to become the largest network marketing company in the world by the year 2021.
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About ACN: ACN is the world’s largest direct seller of telecommunications, energy and other essential services people use every day.
David Lampkin
SVP, Commercial Sales of Wave
David Lampkin is a SVP, Commercial Sales at Wave.
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About Wave, Wave Business: Wave is a leading provider of video, internet and phone services
Rob Hull
VP Consumer & Network Scouting, Technology, Service & Innovation of BT Global Services
Rob has been in Silicon Valley for 15 years heading up Global Scouting within BT’s External Innovation team whose role is to identify, qualify, then introduce companies with innovative technologies, propositions and business models into the BT Lines of Business. Notable projects include BT Sport on Chromecast, steamed gaming and fixed mobile convergence propositions. Before coming to the US, Rob worked in BT’s Group Strategy Department as well as heading up Marketing and Business Development for one of their global sales sectors, and prior to that held various sales and marketing roles. Rob has a Master’s Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Karl Stillner
VP – Marketing Solutions of T-Mobile
Karl Stillner is the Vice President of Marketing Solutions at T-Mobile.
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Karri Kuoppamaki
Senior Vice President, Technology Development & Strategy of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Chris Cholas
VP, H&E Product Technology and Innovation of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Grant Castle
Vice President, Engineering Services & Quality Assurance of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Kathleen Ham
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Rick Chandler
Vice President of Product Management of T-Mobile
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About T-Mobile: T-Mobile is redefining the way consumers and businesses buy wireless services.
Dmitry Shurygin
VP Operations of NFWare
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About NFWare: NFWare develops disruptive virtualized network software for operators and data-centers.
Andrew Cowell
Senior Vice President of Power Management of Intersil
Andrew Cowell is Senior Vice President of Intersil’s Mobile Power Products. Mr. Cowell joined Intersil from Micrel Semiconductor in 2011, where he served for four years as Vice President of Analog Marketing. Prior to this, Mr. Cowell served as the head of Micrel’s Strategic Applications division with responsibility for new product definition for power products. He also served in the role of Marketing and Applications Manager for the power product line. Prior to joining Micrel, Mr. Cowell worked for Siliconix Semiconductor where he held a variety of technical positions throughout the world. Mr. Cowell began his career as a design engineer at Advanced Power Supplies. Mr. Cowell holds a First Class Honors degree in Electronics from Middlesex University in the UK.
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About Intersil, Renesas Electronics Corporation: Intersil Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of analog integrated circuits (ICs).
Vern Kelley
Senior Vice President of Human Resources of Intersil
Vern Kelley is Intersil’s Senior Vice President of Human Resources. Mr. Kelley joined Intersil in February 2003 from National Semiconductor where he was Vice President of Human Resources for the product divisions. In his 19-year tenure at National, Mr. Kelley held a variety of leadership positions within human resources and oversaw HR activities associated with National’s acquisition, divestiture, and joint venture activities. His HR management experience includes development and implementation of performance management, success sharing, productivity improvement, and training and development programs. Before joining National in 1983, Mr. Kelley was a division employee relations manager for Allstate Insurance Company. Mr. Kelley earned a Master of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from Golden Gate University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of the Pacific. He is a recipient of the 2007 HR Symposium “HR Excellence” Award. He also served on the Board of Directors of the United Way Silicon Valley from 2005 to 2008.
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About Intersil: Intersil Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of analog integrated circuits (ICs).
Jeffrey R Osborne
Co-founder,VP Strategy & Business Development of Kepler Communications
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About Kepler Communications: Kepler Communications is a satellite communications company.
Rachel Samren
Senior Vice President, Chief External Affairs, and Governance & Trust Officer of Telia Company
Rachel joined Millicom in July 2014 and manages the group’s Government Relations, Corporate Communications and Corporate Responsibility functions. Her focus is on developing and driving Millicom’s global engagement with particular responsibility for special situation strategies. Rachel’s background is in the risk management consulting sector, most recently as Head of Business Intelligence at The Risk Advisory Group plc. Previously, she worked for Citigroup as well as non-governmental and governmental organisations. Rachel currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Reach for Change and Zantel. She holds a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a MLitt in International Security Studies from the University of St Andrews. Rachel Samrén holds 500 Millicom shares.
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About Telia Company: Telia Company is a Swedish dominant telephone company and mobile network operator.
Jake Wells
SVP Solutions Architecture of Flashpoint
Jake Wells is Director of Operations at Flashpoint. Jake Wells serves as the lead on technical production, managing the integration of our subject matter expert and engineering teams, and assists with product and business development. With nearly a decade of experience as both a producer and consumer of cyber threat intelligence in the public and private sectors, Jake Wells has unique insight into ensuring that customers receive relevant and actionable information. From 2009 to 2015, Jake Wells served as a senior intelligence analyst for the NYPD, where he managed counterterrorism and intelligence-led criminal investigations. As the lead analyst in the Cyber Intelligence Unit, he substantially enhanced the group’s threat intelligence capabilities and represented the NYPD when engaging with government agencies from around the world. Previously, he worked as an analyst for the SITE Intelligence Group providing Deep Web intelligence to commercial and government clients. A 2015 Madison Policy Forum Military-Business Cybersecurity fellow, Jake Wells holds an MA from Columbia University, a BA from Emory University, and studied Arabic in Syria.
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About Flashpoint: Flashpoint is the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence.
Bradley Blanken
VP Strategic Alliances of Bandwidth
As VP, Strategic Alliances at Bandwidth, Brad Blanken is helping to set the direction for Bandwidth’s messaging offerings. He also manages relationships with key partners, Industry trade groups and Standards organizations. Throughout his career, Brad Blanken has been a driving force behind industry-shaping initiatives and business development efforts. He has led wireless industry inter-carrier efforts including creation of the US Common Shortcode program, wireless AMBER alerts, and a partnership with the American Red Cross which resulted in more than $40 million raised for Haiti earthquake relief efforts in less than 6 weeks, and changed the face of nonprofit fundraising strategy forever.He is a recognized thought leader in the digital and mobile marketing space, leveraging exceptional strengths in defining business development, product development, and partnership alliance strategies that strengthen revenue, profit and market presence in a fast-evolving, highly competitive industry.Prior to joining Bandwidth, Brad has served as the SVP, Industry Development, for the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA), COO of Mobile Accord, and Vice President of Carrier Business Development at Thumbplay, an innovative mobile music provider, which was acquired by Clear Channel. Earlier in his career he worked at Syniverse Technologies and the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA). Brad began his career in technology as a Computer Specialist in the United States Marine Corps.
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About Bandwidth: Bandwidth is a telecom company helping wholesale customers and enterprises leverage communications as a tool for innovation.
Lawrence Johnson
SVP & Head of Fintech Engagement of Morningstar
Lawrence Johnson is head of Retirement Plan Intelligence solutions for Morningstar, a business intelligence and data preparation platform focused on the institutional retirement space. Johnson joined Morningstar following the acquisition of RightPond in March 2016. Johnson also leads Morningstar’s global financial technology outreach initiatives, working to strengthen the firm’s leadership role with world-class emerging growth companies and organizations fostering innovation in software, data management, business intelligence, and user experience in the financial services sector. Before joining Morningstar, Johnson was the CEO of RightPond. He has also successfully led a number of emerging companies in the data mining, analytics, and digital marketing spaces. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Johnson practiced law in the area of securities and technology law. He began his career at IBM. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a law degree from the Université de Montréal. He is a member in good standing of the California Bar.
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About Morningstar: Morningstar provides independent investment research to investors worldwide.
Gina Kosta
VP of Sales of MediaAlpha
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About MediaAlpha: MediaAlpha is an advertising technology company that develops programmatic advertising platforms.
Edward Fox
CTO and VP Network Services of MetTel
Ed Fox is the CTO and VP of network services at MetTel.
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About MetTel: MetTel integrates telecom and technology in innovative ways that breathe life into your business and drive it forward.
Max Silber
Vice President of Mobility of MetTel
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About MetTel: MetTel integrates telecom and technology in innovative ways that breathe life into your business and drive it forward.
Don McGuire
Vice President Global Product Marketing of Qualcomm
Don McGuire is currently the Senior Vice President Global Product and Technology Marketing for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He is responsible for leading all global product marketing strategy, planning and execution across QTI’s businesses including mobile, IoT, voice and music, connectivity and automotive. McGuire has helped redefine Qualcomm’s strategic approach to product marketing for the past 7 months, recently joining Qualcomm from Intel Corp. At Intel, McGuire leads the end-user product marketing team in support of Intel’s Client Computing business. He has served in several additional leadership positions prior to his current role and has over 20 years’ marketing and sales experience. Previously, he was a founding member of a marketing strategy consulting firm with a client roster that included Intel, NBC Universal, Dell, Motorola, Cricket and many others. McGuire lead the firm’s technology engagement practice. Before that, McGuire was the chief marketing officer of Amp’d Mobile, the vice president of global marketing for Kyocera, the vice president of sales and marketing for Leap Wireless and the vice president and general manager for Sprint PCS. McGuire began his career as a sales and marketing executive at McCaw Cellular Communications. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University in business administration and has attended an executive master’s program at Stanford University’s Schwab School of Business.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Kedar Kondap
Vice President Product Management of Qualcomm
He is the Vice President for Product Management at Qualcomm.
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About Qualcomm, Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Edward Tiedemann
Senior Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr. is a Qualcomm Fellow and a Senior Vice President of Engineering of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He leads Qualcomm’s worldwide standardization and industry organization activities. Dr. Tiedemann was instrumental in the design and development of the TIA/EIA/IS-95 CDMA system, also called cdmaOne™. He led Qualcomm’s, and much of the industry’s, efforts in the design and development of the third-generation cdma2000® system. Dr. Tiedemann led the offline industry group on M2M convergence, which resulted in oneM2M. In addition to being on the board of the MulteFire Alliance, Dr. Tiedemann is also on the board of the Open Mobile Alliance and the Open Connectivity Foundation. Prior to becoming involved with terrestrial wireless communications, Dr. Tiedemann was involved with numerous commercial and military satellite systems. From 1977 to 1988, Dr. Tiedemann was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on mmWave satellite communications systems. Dr. Tiedemann holds a Ph.D. degree from MIT where he worked in the areas of queueing theory and communications networks. He holds a Master of Science degree from Purdue University where he worked on bandwidth efficient modulation. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity (Va Tech). Dr. Tiedemann is past chairman ofthe Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity (Va Tech). He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Peabody Essex Museum. Dr. Tiedemann was General Chair of GLOBECOM2015, one of the IEEE Communications Society flagship conferences.
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About Open Connectivity Foundation, Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Durga Malladi
Senior Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
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Ev Roach
Vice President of Product Management of Qualcomm
Everett Roach is vice president of product management for the power management product line at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Everett has over 35 years of sales, marketing, and product management experience with a number of leading semiconductor companies. Prior to joining Qualcomm in 2012, Everett was vice president, worldwide sales, for Summit Microelectronics. Everett has held executive sales and marketing positions at numerous companies, including Nucore, SiliconWave, Tripath Technologies, National Semiconductor, Cyrix Corporation, Weitek and Intel Corporation. He has extensive sales experience domestically as well as having held international posts in Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong. Everett has a degree in economics from the University of California at Davis.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Chidi Chidambaram
Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Rashmi Char
Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
Rashmi Char serves as vice president of engineering for Qualcomm Technologies Incorporated. Her current responsibilities include leading the Global Product and ToolsOrganization responsible for delivering world-class mobile chipsets to markets aroundthe world and leading the next generation 1-Gbps Class Modem for smartphones,tablets and mobile broadband products as Software Project Engineer. Rashmi Char joined Qualcomm in 1997 and has held roles of increasing responsibility inMobile Product Development and Commercialization since that time. One of her firstkey positions was in UMTS Protocol Stack Development. She then moved on to leadglobal Software Design and Development teams to support High-Speed Data Servicesover all air interface technologies (UMTS, LTE, CDMA). As Software Project Engineerand Architect, she led the worldwide commercialization of the first worldwide LTE (4G)capable handsets launches on all major carriers’ networks including VZW, ATT, SKT,LGU+, and Sprint and a number of cutting-edge 4G modems for mobile products.Rashmi excels at directly leading hundreds of employees, and also simultaneouslyleading projects comprised of thousands of engineers around the world.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Charles Bergan
Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
Charles leads the software department for Qualcomm Research. He also oversees Qualcomm Research’s robotics program. While at Qualcomm, he has been involved in the research and development of most of the modern cellular radio standards, including CDMA, UMTS, UMB and LTE. Previously, he led the software development team at Ensemble Communications, a start-up company which pioneered the development of LMDS point-to-multipoint wireless backhaul systems. Charles has a B.S. in Computer Engineering, and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from the University of California, San Diego.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Eduardo Esteves
Vice President Product Management of Qualcomm
Eduardo Esteves is vice president of product management in Qualcomm’s Research group. He currently leads a team responsible for technology incubation, strategy and industry collaboration. Dr. Esteves has contributed to the evolution of satellite and wireless communications for more than 20 years. His areas of expertise include 5G, wireless modem design, mobile computing and its applications leveraging sensor processing, computer vision and neural networks. Dr. Esteves received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. Dr. Esteves holds more than 35 patents related to wireless communications and applications.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Joe Glynn
Vice President, Business Development of Qualcomm
Joe Glynn serves as the Vice President of Business Development. In this role he builds and manages strategic relationships with CDMA, UMTS and LTE carriers, and OEM/ODM’s around the world, with the primary goal of creating demand for Qualcomm products and services. In 2007 Joe created the CDMA Summit, which now has evolved into the 4G/5G Summit. (Link) With sights set on expanding the 4G/5G ecosystem, the summit continually proves to be an ideal venue for worldwide operators, device manufacturers, and software and component technology companies to showcase their products and services while also gaining exposure to key Qualcomm executives. Taking place annually in Hong Kong, this 3 day premier event engages attendees in pointed breakout sessions and panels addressing the most anticipated new technologies and trends. The highlight of the meeting is unparalleled “matchmaking” where attendees are connected in over 500 meetings with 100 carriers representing over 3.3 billion subscribers. As the organizer and master of ceremonies, Joe facilitates these connections and influences the relationships that result in significant revenue and profit for both Qualcomm and participating companies. Joe is a graduate of Texas Christian University where he received a BBA in Marketing and was a student-athlete on the highly competitive Division 1 men’s soccer team.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
John Smee
Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
John Smee serves as vice president of engineering at Qualcomm.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Reiner Klement
VP Product Management of Qualcomm
Reiner Klement is the Vice President of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies. During his tenure, he oversaw the marketing of product management, business development, and the QCT portfolio of smartphones and feature phones. Klement joined Qualcomm in 2003 and has more than 30 years of product management experience in the mobile product arena. Under his leadership, the QCT smartphone business has grown from a single product to a broad product portfolio. In his current role he is responsible to build an ecosystem for eSIM technology as well as scaling Qualcomm modem technology into growth areas such as computing and Industrial IoT. Reiner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Fachhochschule Augsburg, Germany.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Sudeepto Roy
VP, Engineering of Qualcomm
Sudeepto Roy is the VP for Engineering at Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL).
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Alex Rogers
Executive Vice President of Qualcomm
Alex Rogers is executive vice president and president of Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), a division of Qualcomm Incorporated. As the head of the company’s licensing business, Rogers is responsible for the strategic direction and oversight of QTL, including managing the division’s day-to-day operations. Rogers has led QTL since March 2016, applying his legal and business experience to manage intellectual property, regulatory and commercial matters for QTL, as well as ensuring continued growth and monetization of QTL’s existing and future licensing programs through negotiation of significant licensing agreements. Most recently, Rogers has been instrumental in driving the conclusion of new license agreements with key OEMs in China.
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Dino Bekis
VP & GM – Mobile & Compute Connectivity Business Unit of Qualcomm
Dino Bekis serves as the Vice President and General Manager of the Mobile & Compute Connectivity Business Unit for Qualcomm Technologies Inc., (QCT). As a senior leader and technologist, he delivers and executes business strategies to turn core technologies into long-term sustainable franchises. Prior to this role, Dino was the Vice President of Marketing for the IP Group in Cadence, where he was responsible for product marketing, business development, collateral and program management for Cadence’s entire commercial IP product portfolio. Throughout his years of enterprise, networking and consumer market experience, Dino has shown agility in taking a combination of new markets and new technologies and turning them into high-velocity businesses with Broadcom, PMC-Sierra and IBM. At the forefront of several commercial technology introductions from low-power Wi-Fi, NFC, 60GHz, and advanced metro-optical architectures, he also was part of the small core leadership team that led IBM to become one of the largest merchant semiconductor players. Dino earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer & Systems Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration from Marist College.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Penny Baldwin
SVP, Chief Marketing Officer of Qualcomm
Penny Baldwin is a senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. In her role, Baldwin leads the company’s marketing efforts worldwide, spanning corporate communications, brand management, product marketing, digital and social marketing, content and creative, thought leadership, positioning and narratives, insights, and analytics.Before joining Qualcomm, Baldwin was vice president and general manager of Intel Global Brand Management & Reputation, responsible for leading all facets of the Intel brand worldwide. In addition, she oversaw Intel partner marketing (including worldwide oversight of the Intel Inside program) and all marketing strategy and execution in support of the New Technology Group which includes VR, merged reality, drones, head and wrist worn wearables, AI, and Intel’s 360-degree Replay technology.Baldwin is a seasoned marketing professional with 30+ years of in-depth expertise spanning agency leadership of Madison Avenue agency brands, global consumer marketing, and brand management for Yahoo!, CMO of global security company McAfee, and global brand management, partner marketing, and new technology group marketing for Intel. She is an inspirational leader of marketing and communications teams, has extensive international marketing experience and is deeply conversant across the full spectrum of marketing disciplines requiring global integration and optimization.Baldwin attended San Francisco State University and studied marketing.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Paul Guckian
Vice President Engineering of Qualcomm
As vice president at QUALCOMM, Mr. Guckian is responsible for corporate engineering services including companywide responsibility for regulatory engineering and compliance. He is responsible for Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and Regulatory certification of new wireless technologies being introduced into different market segments including consumer electronics, automotive, aviation, industrial, and medical markets. He works directly with QUALCOMM customers and industry groups as well as country regulators, such as the FAA, FCC, and FDA in the US to ensure streamlined processes for device development and ease of radio certification. In 2016, Paul leveraged his experience with the FAA and obtained clearance for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) testing at Qualcomm’s San Diego campus, which is within a few miles of an active military air station and controlled Class B airspace, making Qualcomm the first commercial company to receive an FAA authorization for UAS flights in Class B airspace. Prior to joining QUALCOMM in 1996, Mr. Guckian held positions with several European based companies where he was responsible for design and certification of both commercial and military projects.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Susie Armstrong
Senior Vice President, Engineering of Qualcomm
Susan M. Armstrong started at Qualcomm working on Globalstar and then early CDMA base station projects. She was a pioneer in bringing internet protocols to the cellular industry, resulting in the first web surfing on a cellular phone in 1997, and Qualcomm’s commercialization of packet data in 1998. Since then she has held various leadership positions, first as the head of Software Engineering in Qualcomm’s mobile chipset division, and then as the head of worldwide Customer Engineering, the group who integrates and commercializes the company’s products in phones and other wireless devices. She has worked extensively with phone and device makers in Asia and Europe to bring Qualcomm’s technologies to market. Recently, Armstrong has joined Qualcomm’s Government Affairs group, where she brings an engineering and product background the Government Affairs work in worldwide public policy, including intellectual property protection, trade and immigration reform, STEM and STEM diversity. Prior to joining Qualcomm in 1994, Armstrong worked for 10 years at the Xerox Systems Development Department and the Xerox Webster Research Center, holding a variety of software engineering positions that focused on data protocols and operating systems, and advanced development in high-speed data networking. Armstrong holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Rahul Patel
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm
Rahul Patel serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Connectivity for Qualcomm Technologies Inc., (QCT), where he is currently responsible for QCT’s connectivity and networking businesses and leads the Wired/Wireless, Infrastructure and Networking (WIN) and Mobile, Computing and Location (MCL) product management organizations. Prior to this role, Rahul was the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Wireless Connectivity in the Broadband and Connectivity Group at Broadcom where he managed the product roadmap, market, business development and applications engineering organizations to expand Broadcom’s WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS leadership across all market segments. During his 13 year career with Broadcom, Rahul has had a strong track record of developing successful product lines, driving P&L growth and developing strong teams. Before his work at Broadcom, Rahul worked at HIFN, Inc., Samsung Semiconductor, Tritech Microelectronics and EPSON.S-MOS Systems. Rahul is a veteran of the semiconductor and telecommunications industry with more than 20 years of experience in product and business development for networking and wireless connectivity solutions. Rahul holds an MBA from Santa Clara University in California, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Arizona State University in Tempe and a B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from NIT in Warangal, India.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Manvinder Singh
VP, Product Management of Qualcomm
Manvinder (Manny) Singh is Vice President, Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc (QTI) where he leads the SW ecosystem engagements with ISVs, and large platform companies. His team is responsible for delivering solution architecture, pre-integration and optimization of these solutions on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform. These solutions span broad areas of technologies such as machine learning, camera, audio, sensors, security etc. Prior to joining product management, Manny led the worldwide applications engineering team for many years helping customers develop mobile, and IOT products. Under his leadership, a global team of applications engineers helped OEMs integrate, customize, differentiate, and optimize their products to meet their time to market needs. Manny holds a M.S. Computer Science from Clemson University and M.S. in Physics from University of Delhi, India.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Mary Gendron
Sr VP & CIO of Qualcomm
Mary Gendron is senior vice president and chief information officer for Qualcomm Incorporated. In this role, Gendron will lead Qualcomm’s global IT organization, driving operational excellence within the IT function and across the enterprise, as well as collaborating with the executive and business unit leadership teams to ensure Qualcomm continues to incorporate forward-looking technology solutions into the business, products, and strategies to achieve Company business goals. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Gendron served as senior vice president and chief information officer at Hospira, a leading global pharmaceutical and medical device company. Gendron brings more than 25 years of IT experience to the role, with expertise in developing and executing IT and talent-focused strategies, services and plans. She has led complex global organizations, driving proactive business strategies required to develop differentiation and has consistently generated customer, shareholder and employee value. Prior to working at Hospira, Gendron served as CIO at Celestica International, Inc., and served in other senior IT leadership positions at companies like The Nielsen Company, Motorola and Bell Canada Gendron holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from McGill University in Canada
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Jeff Lorbeck
SVP, Engineering of Qualcomm
He is an SVP, Engineering at QUALCOMM, Inc.
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About Qualcomm: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Jan King
Vice President of Qualcomm
Jan King is Advisor at A Human Right.
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About Qualcomm, STL: Qualcomm designs, manufactures, and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services.
Miki Heller
VP, Business Operations and Strategy of Astranis
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Jeff Pedro
Vice President, IoT Business Development of Airfi Networks
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About Airfi Networks: We help Original Equipment Manufacturers launch and monetize cellular connected products worldwide through our Catalyst IoT Platform
Jeff Pedro
Vice President, IoT Business Development of Airfi Networks
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About Airfi Networks: We help Original Equipment Manufacturers launch and monetize cellular connected products worldwide through our Catalyst IoT Platform
