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PCTEL is committed to upholding the highest standards in corporate governance, with a seasoned board of directors who bring deep industry knowledge, independent judgement, expertise in accounting and legal issues, and a commitment to building long-term shareholder value.
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Martin (Marty) H. Singer, Ph.D.Chairman & CEO
Dr. Singer serves as PCTEL’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since October 2001. Prior to that, Dr. Singer served as PCTEL’s non-executive Chairman of the Board from February 2001 until October 2001, and he has been a director since August 1999. Dr. Singer served as President and Chief Executive Officer of SAFCO Technologies, a wireless communications company. He left SAFCO in August 2000 after its sale to Agilent Technologies. From September 1994 to December 1997, Dr. Singer served as Vice President and General Manager of the wireless access business development division for Motorola, a communications equipment company. Prior to this period, Dr. Singer held senior management and technical positions in Motorola, Tellabs, AT&T and Bell Labs.
Dr. Singer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Arts degree and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Vanderbilt University. Dr. Singer currently serves as the Co-Chairman of the Midwest council of TechAmerica (formerly, AeA or the American Electronics Association) and has served on the standing advisory group for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (2005-2007) and Advisory Board for the MMM program at Kellogg School of Business (2003-2009). He also serves on the board of Westell and is Chair of Westell’s Compensation Committee. Dr. Singer has eight (8) patents in telecommunications and is the author of several essays on the telecommunications industry and technology competitiveness. Dr. Singer was awarded the Martin Sandler Achievement Award by the American Israel Chamber of Commerce in 2007 and the Executive Leadership Award by AeA/TechAmerica in 2008. He currently serves on Governor Quinn’s Illinois Economic Recovery Commission and is a member of IEEE, the Economic Club of Chicago (ECC), and the Licensing Executives Society (LES).
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Brian Jackman
Lead Director
Mr. Jackman has been a director since February 2002. Mr. Jackman is currently the President of The Jackman Group, Inc., a management consulting company that he formed in 2005. In September 2001, Mr. Jackman retired from Tellabs, a communications company that he had been with since 1982. Mr. Jackman served as President, Global Systems and Technology, and Executive Vice President of Tellabs since 1998, and he was President of Tellabs Operations from 1993 to 1998. Mr. Jackman held various management positions in sales and marketing for IBM from 1965 to 1982. He is currently on the boards of directors of Open Text, Inc., an enterprise content management solutions company, and Keithley Instruments, a test and measurement equipment company. In addition, Mr. Jackman serves on the board of trustees of Gannon University. Mr. Jackman holds a bachelor of arts degree in English literature from Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania and a master degree in business administration from Penn State University.
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Richard C. Alberding
Director
Mr. Alberding has been a director since August 1999. Mr. Alberding retired from Hewlett-Packard, then a computer, peripherals and measurement products company, in June 1991, serving at that time as an Executive Vice President with responsibility for worldwide company sales, support and administration activities for measurement and computation products, as well as all corporate level marketing activities. Mr. Alberding is a director of Sybase, Inc., an enterprise software company. Mr. Alberding holds a bachelor of arts degree in business administration and marketing from Augustana College, and an associate of science degree in electrical engineering from DeVry Technical Institute in Chicago.
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Steven Levy
Director
Mr. Levy has been a director since March 2006. Mr. Levy most recently served as a Managing Director and Global Head of Communications Technology Research at Lehman Brothers from July 1998 until September 2005. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Levy was a Director of Telecommunications Research at Salomon Brothers from March 1997 to July 1998, a Managing Director and Head of the Communications Research Team at Oppenheimer & Co. from July 1994 to March 1997, and a senior communications analyst at Hambrecht & Quist from July 1986 to July 1994. Mr. Levy also serves as a member of the board of directors for Zhone Technologies, a broadband equipment vendor, Allot Communications, a developer of networking systems for carriers, and privately held GENBAND, Inc., an innovator of IP infrastructure. Mr. Levy holds a master degree in business administration and a bachelor of science degree in materials engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Giacomo Marini
Director
Mr. Giacomo Marini has been a director since October 1996. Mr. Marini has been the founder and Managing Director of Noventi (formerly CIR Ventures), a Silicon Valley-based early-stage technology venture capital firm, since March 2002. He also serves as Chairman of Marini Investments, a private investment company, TES, an industrial automation company, and of Cosmo Industrie, an engineered construction products company. Prior to this, Mr. Marini was the co-founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Logitech, a computer peripherals company. Previously, he held technical and management positions with Olivetti and IBM. He currently serves on the boards of several private companies. Mr. Marini holds a computer science laureate degree from the University of Pisa, Italy.
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John Sheehan
Director
Mr. Sheehan has been a director since October 2002. Mr. Sheehan has served as a senior consultant in the London Perret Roche Group in Red Bank, New Jersey since October 2001. He began his career at Bell Laboratories in 1962. In his 33 years at Bell Laboratories, Western Electric and AT&T, he worked in senior positions in development, manufacturing, strategic planning and general management of business units. Since leaving AT&T in 1996, Mr. Sheehan has held senior management positions in three startup companies. Mr. Sheehan received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from New York University.
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Carl Thomsen
Director
Mr. Thomsen has been a director since March 2001. Mr. Thomsen served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary at Stratex Networks, Inc., (now a part of Harris Stratex Networks, Inc.), a provider of wireless transmission solutions, from 1995 to 2007. From 1984-1995, Mr. Thomsen worked at Measurex Corporation (now a part of Honeywell Corporation) where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Thomsen is also currently a member of the board of directors of the Cardiac Therapy Foundation of the Mid-peninsula, a non-profit organization providing a cardiovascular wellness and rehabilitation program. Mr. Thomsen holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Valparaiso University and a master degree in business administration from the University of Michigan. He is also a certified public accountant.
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