Ian Wood

Council Member Biography

Ian Wood is the Founding Partner of Wireless Foundry, a telecom and IT consultancy founded in 1998. His clients include France Telecom/Orange, SonyEricsson, Vodafone, Openwave and Qualcomm. He was among the first employees of Motorola Cellular Communications in Europe, where he joined in 1985, and rose to the position of GM Finance Europe for their cellular subscriber business. He spent three years at McKinsey & Company in their Wireless group. After that he joined Cable & Wireless' Wireless Strategy Group, and finally founded his twelve-man consultancy in 1998. He is frequently interviewed by the Financial Times and the BBC about Fixed Mobile Convergence, UMA and Wireless issues including M-Commerce. He is knowledgeable in the mobile enterprise space, 4G wireless ultrawide band, the cable space (including the DT divestiture of cable), and the handset space. He works with IXI mobile, Symbian, and the GSM Association as well as SE and Qualcomm. His recent projects have included a review of the European market for HDTV and Mobile TV in particular for Broadcast and Mobile Network Operators; Voice based services within IP telephony for European Telecoms Company and Integration Strategy for European Mobile Operator following recent acquisition. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

1996 - present

Partner, Wireless Foundry