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Phil has more than 25 years of experience in R&D and marketing for companies in the network systems industry. One of the founders of the Wi-Fi Alliance, Phil served as chairman from the organization's inception in August of 1999 through March of 2001. Phil was one of the authors of the DFWMAC protocol, which was selected as the foundation for the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol standard.
Prior to joining BelAir, Phil served as Vivato's Vice-President of Marketing and was Vice-President of Marketing and Vice-President of Wireless Business Development at Wayport.
Phil held various executive positions at Aironet from 1995 through 1999 where he was instrumental in the Aironet IPO and eventual sale of the company to Cisco Systems. Prior to Aironet, Phil was Vice-President of wireless development at Xircom Inc., where he was responsible for engineering and product marketing for wireless LAN and wireless wide-area network (WAN) products. Earlier in his career, Phil was general manager of communications products at Adaptec, Inc. and director of the network architecture group at Corvus Systems.
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