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Ian Gifford (giffordi at ieee.org) currently runs a successful consulting practice I. Gifford Consulting LLC focused on providing companies with world class skills in business strategy, development, and execution.  His current areas of focus are traditional market and/or product planning, developing market requirements based on primary research as well as functional requirements for product development teams.  Recently, he has been focusing on business mergers and acquisition strategy and analysis.  Further, his current areas of research interest are self-organizing networks, software defined radio, software adaptable networks, cognitive radio, cognitive networks, opportunistic networks, ambient networks, social networks, web science, game theory, econometric modeling and their impact to tomorrow's heterogeneous wired and wireless networks as well as the internet and their impact on the legacy subscriber-based model.  Finally, he has an extensive background in intellectual property rights i.e., creation of IPR and management of complex patent portfolios for internal product and business revenue streams as well as external royalty bearing strategies e.g., consensus standards development organization adoption, etc.

Prior to consulting Mr. Gifford was Director, Standards Realization for Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. from 2004 to 2007 where he directed the companies ultra-wideband (UWB) strategy.  Over this timeframe he managed a core group of system engineers as well as a large number of virtual consulting engineers that were based worldwide.  Ian directed the team that created and applied for 250+ patents as well as developing the licensing strategies for this portfolio. From 2001 to 2003 he directed the Business Development and Standards strategy for XtremeSpectrum, Inc. a UWB start-up financed by Alliance Technology Ventures, Cisco Systems, Granite Ventures, LLC, Motorola, NextCom Ventures, Novak Biddle, and Texas Instruments.  XSI's assets were acquired by Motorola in 2003 and at that time he joined Motorola senior management.  From 1982 to 2001 he worked for M/A-COM, Inc. holding a number of responsibilities that included project management, sales, marketing, product marketing, business development, and strategic marketing. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Boston University.  He is the co founder of the IEEE 802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks and he is an active member of the IEEE, IETF, and ITU.  Mr. Gifford continues to publish and his most recent work on “Wireless Personal Area Network Communications,” for The RF and Microwave Handbook, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, ISBN/ISSN: 084938592X will be available via Amazon later in 2007.

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