Greg brings more than 20 years of executive engineering management, system architecture and engineering experience to Linear Signal's Board. Greg previously served as Chief Technology Officer of iDirect Technologies which was sold to Singapore Technologies. Prior to iDirect, Greg was Vice President of Engineering of Manticom Networks, and Vice President of Engineering and Co-Founder of IPOptical. Greg was also a Senior Scientist at Alcatel USA for 16 years.
Phil brings to Linear Signal's Board decades of executive business leadership. He began a remarkable and stellar career in retail sales for Scott Paper Company in 1959. By 1983 Phil was President, CEO and Chairman of the Board and lead the company for the next decade to its acquisition by Kimberly-Clark in 1995. For more than two decades-retiring in 2008, Phil has rendered distinguished service as a Director (including stints as Chairman) on the Board of Directors of the Campbell Soup Company, Penn Mutual Life, and Exxon Mobile Corp. Phil continues to serve as a Director on the Board of Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Greg oversees the daily operations of Linear Signal as it launches its first products. Greg is a multi patent- applied-for web software and IPTV entrepreneur. Greg has been instrumental in developing cutting-edge products from concept to launch as a founder of numerous companies, including Orangatango, acquired by iEntertainment Corporation, and ICentral, Inc., acquired by Open Market, Inc. While at Orangatango, Greg became a leading authority on market driven internet privacy and security solutions, consulting US Senators and Congressmen. At ICentral, Greg designed a unique "shrinkwrap" strategy for the ShopSite™ eCommerce storefront engine, making the product a first in internet channel marketing.
Karl invented the core adaptive analog beamforming technologies at the heart of Linear Signal's Ad-A-Beam™ family of semiconductor products and leads Linear Signal's technology development. Karl is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University. Among many other notable achievements, Karl was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and served as Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation. He has published many scientific articles on electromagnetics, remote sensing, and antenna applications, and is the author of the books Problem Solving in Electromagnetics, Microwave Circuits, and Antenna Design for Communications Engineering with Peter Russer and Numerical Analysis for Electromagnetic Integral Equations.