Michael Thelander is the CEO and Founder of Signals Research Group. Previously, Mr. Thelander was an analyst with Deutsche Bank Equity Research where he spearheaded the creation and subsequent publication of the Signals to Noise (S2N) newsletter and The Rise of the 3G Empire thematic reports, which many industry followers considered to be the preeminent research products of their kind. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Thelander was a consultant with KPMG (now known as BearingPoint) and a communications officer with the United States Army. Mr. Thelander has also published numerous articles for leading trade publications and engineering journals throughout his career. He has been an invited speaker at industry conferences around the world and he is frequently quoted by major news sources and industry newsletters, including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Reuters, Bloomberg News, and The China Daily. Mr. Thelander earned a Masters of Science in Solid State Physics from North Carolina State University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.