At least IDCC is ahead of us......
I am pleased to appoint Charlie Brogan to the position of Senior Director of Corporate Development," said Rich Fagan, Chief Financial Officer of InterDigital. "With more than twenty years of senior level mergers and acquisitions experience, Charlie will lead InterDigital's corporate development activities at a time of positive momentum for the Company.
By creating this position, the Company is accelerating its growth possibilities, enhancing its ability to penetrate new markets, providing InterDigital with access to a broader range of technologies and products to offer to its customers, and strengthening the Company's ability to increase shareholder value."
IDCC's participation in standards is also a way to scope out new products and trends.
Company management and engineers have or are currently serving in a number of leadership positions in key industry standards bodies including Chair of the IEEE 802.16 Tga (Broadband Wireless Access, 2-11GHz); Chair of the 802.16 Mobile Study Group; Vice Chair of the 3GPP RAN Working Group 3 (WG3); Vice Chair of T1P1.4 Wireless Wideband Internet Access; North American Rapporteur for ITU-R IMT-2000 Deployment Handbook; Editor, 3GPP RAN WG1, Physical Layer Procedures (TDD) (R5) and Editor and Rapporteur, 3GPP RAN WG4, TDD Base Station Classification
BTW, have you ever owned shares in a stock that has grown from less than $100M in sales to more than $1B?
I don't think so.