Dr. Joseph M. Perl is the Executive Chairman and Board Member of Mobilygen. In 1990 Dr. Perl joined DSP Communications, Inc. (NYSE: DSPC), a leading provider of chipsets for the wireless personal communications market. Dr. Perl held senior technical and managerial positions at DSPC, including President and CEO until 1999, shortly before Intel Corporation acquired the company for close to $1.6 billion. Since 1999, Dr. Perl served as an Advisor to Intel until joining Mobilygen in 2001. Prior to DSPC, Dr. Perl's career combined academic appointments with Tel Aviv University, Florida State University and University of Nebraska, with industry positions at Tadiran Electronics, Ltd. and Elbit Computers, Ltd. Throughout his career, Dr. Perl worked in the areas of Wireless Communications, Digital Signal Processing and Semiconductors. Dr. Perl received his B.Sc. degree from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Colorado State University, all in Electronic Engineering. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE since 1987 and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences since 1993 |