Ofcom announces new members to its Spectrum Advisory Board

On Tuesday the UK regulator Ofcom announced four new members to its Spectrum Advisory Board (OSAB)

The four new members are:

Linda Doyle an Associate Professor in Trinity College, University of Dublin in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering.
Prof. Doyle received her Ph.D. in radio wave propagation in 1996 and has been a faculty member since then. She leads a research team which works on wireless networking, software radio, cognitive radio, reconfigurable networks, dynamic spectrum access, spectrum trading and spectrum regulation. Linda is currently vice-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks.

Philip Marnick currently Chief Technology Officer of SpinVox, a speech technology company. He has spent over twenty years working in the wireless communications industry. Prior to joining SpinVox, he held senior operational and strategic executive positions at O2, BT, Orange, J-Phone, Japan (now Softbank mobile) and Extreme Mobile.

David Meyer who has been an officer within the British Army’s Royal Corps of Signals since 1979. He has held posts including command of military units delivering operational information systems and services and a variety of office-based staff posts responsible for policy, procurement, operations, signals intelligence and computer network defence. He is currently the Deputy Chief Information Officer in the Ministry of Defence in London, and is responsible for a range of operational information services.

Gavin Young Chief Architect for Access within Cable & Wireless (C&W). Following a range of Access technology leadership roles within BT, Gavin joined AdEvia in 2000 where as Chief Technology Officer he led the design of pan-European broadband networks. He then moved to Bulldog Communications (later acquired by C&W) where he held a variety of responsibilities from product development through to network operations and Chief Technology Officer.

Further information can be found here
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2009/07/nr_20090707

Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board
http://www.osab.org.uk/