Edgar Auslander

EDGAR AUSLANDER is Senior Vice President, Marketing and Strategy at IXI
Mobile, Inc. He brings over 13 years of experience in wireless
communications, technology, marketing, and management to IXI. Mr.
Auslander joined IXI from Texas Instruments, where he was a key member
of the original team that pioneered and developed the Wireless
Communications Business Unit (WCBU), TI’s largest business unit, which
generated an annual revenue of over $2 billion. His leadership roles at
TI included business development, marketing, strategy, and corporate
development. Most recently, he served as TI’s WCBU Worldwide Strategic
Marketing Director and previously as the Worldwide GSM Marketing
Manager. Some of his recommendations resulted in Texas Instruments’
acquisitions and he drove key design wins with lifetime net revenue
exceeding $500 million. In 2001, Mr. Auslander co-authored a reference
book titled The Applications of Programmable DSPs in Mobile
Communications (Wiley Publishers), published several articles in
industry periodicals, and gave speeches at numerous conferences around
the world. He is a member of the Council of Advisors providing
consulting to the financial community. He holds an MBA from Columbia
Business School and an MEE from Cornell University.