Technology >> CEO Interviews >> June 11, 2001
DAVID LYON, Chairman, President and CEO of Silicon Wave, Inc., has been an active participant in the telecommunications industry since his MIT cooperative assignments at Bell Labs in the late 1960s. Mr. Lyon has been credited with a number of industry firsts in such diverse fields as telephone line modems, network control systems, and PCS mobile telephony. Notably, he developed the RF chipsets for Japans Personal Handyphone System (PHS) used by a consortium of hand-set manufacturers formed by DDI and Kyocera. He was the Business Group Leader who produced the first successful Ku-band two-way VSAT (very-small-aperture-satellite earth stations) product line while at M/A-Com Linkabit in the early 1980s. He was also a co-Founder and CEO of Pacific Communication Sciences (PCSI). Recently he served as a Board member of Libit Signal Processing, Ltd., until its acquisition by Texas Instruments. He was also a co-Founder and is currently a Board member of Ensemble Communications. Mr. Lyon holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has also distinguished himself as a teacher at both MIT and the University of California San Diego. Profile
Mr. Lyon: Silicon Wave was founded in late 1997. Our mission is to design and produce components for
