Vice-chair biography
The Vice-chair provides support to the Chair in internal activities, liaison with external groups and representation of the Forum at industry events and with press and analysts.
Andy Germano was appointed Vice-chair in July 2009. Andy has over 22 years of telecoms and wireless experience including large company (Verizon, Nortel, QUALCOMM) and start-up companies (Tantivy, WiDeFi, AuthenTec).
Andy has experience working in engineering, product management and business development and marketing across the Femto eco-system including: carrier, infrastructure, consumer electronics and semiconductor for both wireline and wireless (GSM & CDMA) ventures. He is a member of IEEE Standards Association and was involved in the creation of the 802.16 standard as well as participation in several other 802 wireless standards (802.11; 802.15).
Andy was also instrumental in the creation of the WWINA (Wireless Wideband InterNet Access) standard as part of the T1P1 via 3GPP. Andy has an MBA from Duke University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
