Ian Walter brings to Altobridge a wealth of Aeronautical and Mobile Telecommunications experience. He started his career with British Airways were he worked for 8 years as an Avionics engineer in the Helicopter division. He joined Motorola in 1988 were he initially worked on the roll out of the Cellnet analogue followed by the roll out of some of the first GSM networks in Europe. In 1996 Ian left Motorola to join Silicon Valley startup InterWAVE Communication Inc., where he was involved in the development of a new generation of GSM products for Corporate and Emerging markets. In 1997, in agreement with interWAVE, Ian transferred to ADC Microcellular Systems as Head of Product Management and played a key roll driving the in-building corporate solution with key customers such as BTCellnet and Tmobile. Ian was part of the management team that worked on the MBO of the Microcellular business unit from ADC and went on to be a board member and CTO of the new company. After the trade sale of the company to InterWAVE Communications in 2000, Ian relocated to California where he headed up InterWAVE’s Product Management Group with responsibility for both the GSM and CDMA product lines. When Altobridge spun out its maritime business to form Blue Ocean Wireless, Ian was seconded to BOW as CTO where he successfully rolled out and launched the world’s first merchant maritime GSM service.
Session: Innovative Backhaul Solutions
Date: Monday, Oct. 24
Time: 2:00 PM
