As a leading scholar and successful wireless entrepreneur, Dr. Bob Brodersen serves as chairman of the board of directors for SiBEAM. Prior to joining SiBEAM, Dr. Brodersen was a founder and served as a technical advisor to Atheros Communications. In addition, Dr. Brodersen was instrumental in founding and leading, as co-director, the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, which is a research effort involving 10 companies, 60+ students and 6 faculty involved in all aspects of the design of highly integrated CMOS wireless systems. Since 1976, Dr. Brodersen has served on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is the John Whinnery Chair professor and co-scientific director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was co-recipient of the IEEE Morris K. Liebmann Award for Outstanding Emerging Technology. Among many other awards and honors, Professor Brodersen was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund, Sweden. Dr. Brodersen received his Ph.D. from MIT, his M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his B.S. in Mathematics and Electronics Engineering from the California State Polytechnic College in Pomona, California.