Dr Alan Jamieson
Is an independent consultant, company director and co-founder of Added Value Applications Ltd, an Auckland, New Zealand, based company specializing in applications of telecommunications, radiocommunication and information technology, radio spectrum management studies, radiocommunication system standards and project management. Clients include user organizations, corporate, international and national service providers and manufacturers, state owned enterprises and New Zealand government administrative agencies. Alan's wide experience of attendance and participation at international and industry conferences includes: ITU-R study groups and working parties including Working Party 8A in which he is the current chairman of Working Group 3 on public protection and disaster relief communications. In the latter capacity he chaired the ITU Seminar on Public Protection and Disaster Relief Communications, Geneva, 24 September 2002. Attendance at numerous administrative conferences and conference preparatory meetings for more years than he cares to admit. Alan chaired Committee 5 at WRC-03. He has also chaired working groups on spectrum allocation issues including MSS and IMT-2000 at World Radio Conferences in 1997 and 2000. Alan was the chapter rapporteur for mobile, mobile satellite and radionavigation service issues at CPM-03/2 and has been selected as a chapter rapporteur for aeronautical issues at CPM- 06/2. Presenter and session chairman at various industry conferences on mobile communications and personal communications systems. Alan has also authored several papers in international journals and has been an invited speaker at both international and national seminars and conferences.

David Thompson
Manager, Global Standards and Technology, TIA He joined the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) in 1999 as part of the Technical and Regulatory Affairs Department. In his current position, David manages the Global Standards and Technology Department, reporting to the Sr. VP of Standards and Special Projects. Responsibilities include coverage of the ITU-T and ITU-R; involvement in technical aspects of CITEL PCC.I and PCC.II; TIA alternate Council Member to the FCC chartered North American Numbering Council; TIA coordinator for the Public Safety Partnership Project MESA, between TIA and ETSI; Coordinator of emergency telecommunications and Critical Infrastructure Protection/Homeland Security issues; and other activities important to the association and its members. David holds a Masters degree in Telecommunications (1999) and a Bachelor´s in Multimedia Production (1997) from George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia), in addition to other technology and engineering related certifications.

Ken Mott
Is a retired police officer who was instrumental in the establishment and development of the British Association of Public-Safety Communications Officers. He served 30 years in the Lincolnshire Police and was attached to the Home Office as advisor on communications and information systems to Her Majesty´s Inspectorate of Constabulary.

Phil Kidner
Is a Chief Inspector in the Avon & Somerset Constabulary with 28 years service. He is currently attached to the Police Information Technology as part of the Project Team that is overseeing the implementation of the Airwave national digital radio network for the UK Police Service.

Gary Harney
Is a Senior Divisional Officer of the Greater Manchester Fire Service the largest provincial fire service in the United Kingdom. With a total of 28 years service, Gary has extensive experience of communications and information systems and is currently head of a project to determine the future mobile data requirements for the UK fire service.

Graham Curry
Is a member of the Lancashire Ambulance Service that is renowned for it´s innovative use of technology in the treatment of patients. He has some 23 years service and is a recognised authority on the use of mobile data and telemetry applications and has represented BAPCO during the User Specification phase of Project MESA.

Paul Najarian
Is currently serves as the Director of Telecommunications and Standards at ITS America. He has been involved in ITS telecommunications issues since 1995, dealing with national and international regulatory matters, as well as defining ITS telecommunications requirements for standards developing organizations. Mr. Najarian´s participation in the ITU-R WP8A activities on ITS began in 1996 as Correspondence Group chair on ITS. Since June 2003, Mr. Najarian has been serving as the International Secretariat of ISO Technical Committee 204 on Intelligent Transport Systems. He also acts as liaison between ISO and CEN Technical Committee 278 on ITS, as well as liaison with other international and regional standards organizations. From 1985 to 1996, Mr. Najarian worked as a RF Communications Systems Engineer on various U.S. Air Force strategic communications systems ranging from Land Mobile to Fixed Satellite-based systems. In this capacity, he has been involved with ITU WARC (now WRC) issues since 1985. Mr. Najarian holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, as well as MBA from George Washington University.

Stephen M. Blust (P.E.)
Is Director of Wireless Standards at Cingular Wireless, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is responsible for the development of wireless corporate strategies related to the business impacts of evolving and future technology. His background includes more than 30 years in wireless and wireline telecommunications, and spans radio engineering, spectrum aspects, services and architecture development, standards, regulatory support, and strategic planning. He is chair of Working Party 8F within Study Group 8 of the International Telecommunications Union Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R SG 8), which is addressing, third generation and beyond wireless (IMT-2000). Mr. Blust is also the chair of the Software Defined Radio Forum, which focuses on advancement of software defined radio for commercial and governmental wireless communications systems, and is a long time advocate of SDR in commercial wireless. Mr. Blust holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University and is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. Mr. Blust is a member of the IEEE, is a Registered Professional Engineer, and has attained First Class certification and master endorsement from the National Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers (NARTE). He was awarded the SDR Forum "Contributor Award" in 2002. He has authored numerous articles and contributed to several books on IMT- 2000 and software defined radio and is a patent holder.

Mark Cummings
Special Advisor to the CEO, RFco Inc. Member of the Board of Directors of SkyCross Inc. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the SDR Forum Mark Cummings was the CEO and founder of enVia, a meta company which launched: MorphICs, acquired by Infineon, reconfigurable logic Baseband Processors for SDR (Software Defined Radio-wireless systems that can support multiple Air Interface Standards with software changes); SkyCross, successful mid stage company, SDR antennas; RFco, successful early stage company, SDR RF Front Ends.

Mark was the initial CEO of each of the launched companies, bringing in a specialized industry veteran to be CEO as the companies matured. Mark is the principal inventor on the earliest patent granted on the use of reconfigurable logic for SDR. He chaired the Organizing Committee of the SDR Forum (an international industry association with over 100 member companies) and was its first Technical Committee Chair. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of the SDR Forum and a Member of Special Committee, Software Radio Study Group, IEICE. He is the author of "Radio Frequency Front Ends for Multimode SDRs" a chapter in the book Software Defined Radio Enabling Technologies published May 2002 by Wiley and "SDR Baseband Requirements and Directions to Solutions" in Software Defined Radio Enabling Technologies Volume II, to be published later this year.

Earlier in his career, Mark held technical, marketing, finance and general management leadership positions in communications common carriers, large end users and equipment manufacturers, and he founded the Pocket Intelligence Program at SRI International (Stanford Research Institute). He helped found and sat on the Board of Directors of PCMCIA, Smart Card Industry Association and IrDA (Infrared Data Association). He was an early member of IEEE 802, a contributor to the X.25 standard and designed the first international X.25 network. Mark helped organize the first satellite pay cable network, Home Box Office and the Digital Broadcasting System consortium, set the architecture for the next generation EFTS system for the US Federal Reserve System, the Standard Chartered retail banking system in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, and the architecture for the international banking system for Mitsui Bank. As an Assistant Professor of Computer Mediated Communications Systems at SFSU, his research focused on the role of communications and computing in national development where he developed the technique currently used to encode Chinese characters. Mark holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business in Conjunction with the Moore School of Engineering and the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. He has done post-graduate work at NYU, New School For Social Research, Stanford University, and Tohoku University. He has published over 150 papers and articles on communications and computing.

Richard E. Shrum
SDR Forum - chair of Regulatory Committee, 3-year member of Board of Directors The SP&T Group, Inc., Falls Church, VA - President and CEO Alion Science and Technology, Lanham, MD - senior science advisor Various U.S. Government positions, including Department of State (1977 - retirement in September 1998)) Continuous active role in ITU activities from 1969 through 1998 First ITU meeting attended - CCIR Study Group 8, February 1970

Bo Piekarski
Is vice president of Business Development, TelASIC, has been working in the wireless industry for 20 years. In addition to his role at TelASIC, Bo is co-chairman of the Software Defined Radio Forum´s R&D Working Group. During his career, Bo served as the general manager of Intel´s Wireless Wide Area Network Operation and also oversaw the development and strategic marketing of Intel´s GPRS products. He also served as vice president of strategic business at Omnipoint Technologies (acquired by VoiceStream). Bo also held several executive positions at Ericsson, including vice president of Business Development and Strategic Marketing and vice president of the North American GSM business unit. He earned both an MS and BS from The University of Michigan.

Mark Koro
Has recently joined QUALCOMM as a Director of Government Affairs. Previously, he was a senior government affairs consultant with QUALCOMM Government Affairs since December of 2000. Prior to moving out to San Diego, Mark spent over 10 years working at the National Security Agency in Fort Meade Maryland as a member of their Corporate Relations Office. In this capacity, Mark worked on creating relationships for the Intelligence and Defense Communities with all the major information technology companies. From 1989 - 1993, Mark was the national security advance representative within President George Bush´s White House Advance Office. Today, in addition to working with QUALCOMM, Mark serves a special advisor to the Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, a consultant to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and has reprised his role as a senior lead advance representative of the current White House. Mark graduated from Seattle University with a Bachelor´s Degree in Electrical Engineering, took graduate courses at John´s Hopkins University and is a certified Cryptologic Engineer.

Dr. José M. Costa
Received the Titles of Industrial Engineer (Electronics) and Dr. Industrial Engineer from the Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona, Spain, in 1971 and 1984, respectively, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1973 and 1982, respectively. During 1977-1978 he held a fellowship in the Canadian Department of Communications (now Industry Canada) doing research on future communication services. He joined Bell-Northern Research (BNR) Ltd., now part of Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada, in 1978, where he has held several positions in systems engineering. He is currently senior manager of the Wireless Access Standards department at Nortel Networks, and participates in the development of radio standards and spectrum recommendations in ITU. He is a vice-chairman of ITU-R Study Group 8 and participates regularly in Working Party 8A, where he is the Principal Rapporteur in the Joint Rapporteur Group 8A-9B on Wireless Access Systems, including RLANs, and Working Party 8F on IMT-2000, where he is the CITEL Rapporteur.

Carl Stevenson
Is Senior Manager, Standards and Regulatory Affairs at Agere Systems has more than 32 years of experience in the design and development of RF communications systems and equipment. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Chair of the IEEE 802.18 Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group, and a member of the Wi-Fi Alliance Regulatory Committee.

Eric Schimmel
Is a consultant with extensive experience in regulatory matters and the development of standards for wireless communications. He participates in many ITU activities and has headed the US delegations to ITU-R WP8A for over a decade. Currently he is affiliated with the Space Data Corporation as a member of its Board of Directors.

Paul Rinaldo
Has been the Technical Relations Manager for the American Radio Relay League and Manager of the IARU Technical Office since 1990. Most of his current duties include U.S. Government relations on domestic and international matters, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Inter- American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL). He currently serves as chairman of ITU-R Working Party 8A Working Group 1, which is concerned with technical studies related to the amateur and amateur-satellite services. He has participated in two ITU Plenipotentiary Conferences, six World Radio Conferences, all Radiocommunication Assemblies since the 1990s, numerous Working Parties and Task Groups, and related U.S. preparatory meetings. He chaired Task Group 8/2 on wind profiler radar and the WP 1A drafting group on out-of-band emissions. He was a principal editor of the ITU-D handbook on disaster communications for developing countries. Previously, he was Manager of the ARRL Technical Department, then Publications Manager and Editor, QST. Prior to his ARRL employment he was a telecommunications consultant and earlier worked for the U.S. federal government in telecommunications including spectrum management. He studied Radio Engineering at the Valparaiso Technical Institute and is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). His amateur radio call sign is W4RI.

Satoshi (Sam) Oyama, (P.E.)
Is Chairman, DSRC International Task Force, DSRC Expert Group, ITSInfo-communications Forum, Japan. Rapporteur, ITS Expert Group, ASTAP (Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Standardization Program. Expert ISO TC204 WG15. Chairman, International Harmonization Project, Radio Communications SWG, ISO TC204 WG15, Committee of Japan. Senior Manager, ITS Center, Total Solutions Div., Hitachi, Ltd.

Dr. Larry Alder
ArrayComm´s Vice President Technology Development, has been with ArrayComm since early 1995. Prior to joining ArrayComm, Dr. Alder received his Ph.D from Stanford University in the specialty of Control Theory. He then spent three years as a Senior Control Systems Engineer at Adept Technology where he developed control systems for commercial robots. Since joining ArrayComm as a systems engineer, Dr. Alder has worked on the ArrayComm´s core technology and has played a significant role in the development of many of ArrayComm´s commercial products. For the last several years, Dr. Alder has been in an Engineering management role, leading technology development for the i-BURST mobile broadband wireless access system.

Cindy Cook
Works for Industry Canada as the Manager, New Wireless Technologies in the Spectrum Engineering Branch. In this role she covers new technologies such as IMT-2000, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Software Defined Radio (SDR). Ms. Cook obtained a B.A.Sc (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Ottawa in 1988. Her career has spanned many different technical and business areas with a background including satellite technology, terrestrial wide area networking solutions, wireless access technologies and packet routing protocols. With extensive people and project management experience, she has been a member of engineering staff at Telesat Canada, Stentor, Bell Canada and Nortel Networks and has held managerial positions at Bell, Nortel and now Industry Canada. Ms. Cook is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario.