People: InterDigital Inc (IDCC.OQ)
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Steven Clontz |
63 | 2010 | Independent Chairman of the Board |
William Merritt |
54 | 2008 | President, Chief Executive Officer, Director |
Richard Brezski |
40 | 2012 | Chief Financial Officer |
Scott McQuilkin |
58 | 2012 | Senior Executive Vice President - Strategy and Finance |
Jannie Lau |
37 | 2012 | Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary |
James Nolan |
52 | 2009 | Executive Vice President - Research and Development |
Allen Proithis |
48 | 2013 | Executive Vice President - Solutions Group |
Lawrence Shay |
54 | 2008 | Executive Vice President - Intellectual Property, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel |
Donald Dinella |
50 | 2013 | Chief Licensing Officer, Chief Licensing Counsel |
Gilbert Amelio |
70 | 2011 | Independent Director |
Jeffrey Belk |
50 | 2010 | Independent Director |
Edward Kamins |
64 | 2003 | Independent Director |
John Kritzmacher |
52 | 2009 | Independent Director |
Jean Rankin |
54 | 2010 | Independent Director |
Robert Roath |
70 | 1997 | Independent Director |
Patrick Van de Wille |
Vice President - Communications and Investor Relations |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Steven Clontz |
Mr. Steven Terrell Clontz is Independent Chairman of the Board of InterDigital Inc., since January 2010. He has been a director of the company since April 1998. In January 2010, Mr. Clontz joined Singapore Technologies Telemedia, a Singapore-registered private limited company that is an investor/operator in the telecommunications and media sectors, as Senior Executive Vice President for North America and Europe. From January 1999 through his retirement at the end of 2009, Mr. Clontz served as President and Chief Executive Officer of StarHub, Ltd., a Singapore-based, publicly traded telecommunications and media corporation providing a full range of services over fixed, mobile and cable TV networks. He continues to serve as a non-executive director of StarHub and also serves on the boards of directors of Equinix, Inc. (since 2005) and Level 3 Communications, Inc. (since 2012). Mr. Clontz previously served on the board of directors of eircom Limited, from 2010 to December 2011, and the executive committee of the board of directors of Global Crossing Limited, from 2004 to October 2011. |
William Merritt |
Mr. William J. Merritt is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of InterDigital Inc. He has been a director of the company since May 2005. He has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company since May 2005 and as President and Chief Executive Officer of InterDigital Communications, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, since its formation in July 2007. Mr. Merritt served as General Patent Counsel of the company from July 2001 to May 2005 and as President of InterDigital Technology Corporation, a wholly owned patent licensing subsidiary of the company, from July 2001 to January 2008. |
Richard Brezski |
Mr. Richard J. Brezski has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of InterDigital, Inc., effective May 10, 2012. Mr. Brezski responsible for overseeing the company’s finance, accounting, audit, tax, treasury, IT and facilities functions, including the company’s internal and external financial reporting and analysis. Mr. Brezski joined the company as Director and Controller in May 2003. Mr. Brezski was promoted to Senior Director in July 2006 and in January 2007 was appointed Chief Accounting Officer. In January 2009, Mr. Brezski was promoted to Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, and in March 2011 he was appointed to the additional post of Treasurer. Prior to joining InterDigital, Mr. Brezski served as an audit manager for PwC in its technology, information, communications and entertainment practice, where he provided business advisory and auditing services to product and service companies in the electronics, software and technology industries. Mr. Brezski earned a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from Villanova University and an Executive Master of Business Administration from Hofstra University. |
Scott McQuilkin |
Mr. Scott A. McQuilkin has been appointed as Senior Executive Vice President - Strategy and Finance of InterDigital Inc., effective May 10, 2012. Mr. McQuilkin joined InterDigital as Chief Financial Officer in 2007 with over 25 years of senior-level experience in financial management with public and privately held companies in the high tech and financial services sectors. Prior to InterDigital, Mr. McQuilkin served as Chief Financial Officer for Metavante Lending Solutions, a high-growth technology firm providing business process automation to the financial services industry. Mr. McQuilkin had joined GHR Systems, which subsequently was acquired by Metavante Corporation, in 2000 as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. McQuilkin earned a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School and a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University. |
Jannie Lau |
Ms. Jannie K. Lau has been appointed as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of InterDigital, Inc., effective October 31, 2012. Ms. Lau joined InterDigital in 2008 as Associate General Counsel, and was promoted to Deputy General Counsel in 2010. Prior to joining InterDigital, Ms. Lau served as securities and transactional counsel at IKON Office Solutions, Inc., then a Fortune(R) 500 company. Before beginning her in-house career, she was a corporate associate at global law firms in New York and Boston, where she represented public and pre-IPO companies as well as private equity and venture capital fund managers. Ms. Lau serves on the board of directors of DELVACCA, the Delaware Valley chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, and the executive committee of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania. She is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University. |
James Nolan |
Mr. James J. Nolan is Executive Vice President - Research and Development of InterDigital Inc. He is responsible for directing the development of advanced wireless technologies, including the incubation of advanced wireless communications solutions and the evolution of standards-based technologies, and the company’s participation in wireless standards bodies. Since joining the company in 1996, Mr. Nolan has held a variety of engineering and management positions, including serving as the company’s senior engineering officer since May 2006. In February 2007, Mr. Nolan’s title was revised to Executive Vice President, Engineering, without a change in responsibilities. Prior to the company’s engineering organization, he led technology and product development of modems, protocol software and radio designs for multiple wireless standards. Mr. Nolan was named Executive Vice President, Research and Development, in April 2009, in connection with the company’s decision to expand its technology development and licensing business and realign its SlimChip business. Mr. Nolan earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University and an Executive Master of Business Administration from Hofstra University. |
Allen Proithis |
Mr. Allen A. Proithis has been appointed as the Executive Vice President - Solutions Group of InterDigital, Inc. He is responsible for establishing and developing strategic business relationships and identifying potential new business opportunities. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Proithis was at TE Connectivity Ltd., a global designer and manufacturer of products that connect and protect the flow of power and data inside products, from January 2011 to October 2011 where he served as Senior Director – Strategy & Business Development, Consumer Devices division, covering the mobile, consumer electronics and PC industries. While at TE, Mr. Proithis led a global team dedicated to strategy, mergers and acquisitions and strategic marketing, and was responsible for identifying new markets, channels and growth opportunities from product idea creation to execution. Before joining TE, Mr. Proithis was the Head of Strategy & Business Development for the Handheld business unit at Hewlett-Packard Company, a technology company with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, from 2008 to January 2011. In this role, he drove all strategic initiatives for devices, software and services. Mr. Proithis had previously been the Director of Business Development in HP’s Personal Systems Group from 2007 to 2008, during which time he was responsible for building a partnership program with telecommunications companies. Prior to joining HP in 2004, Mr. Proithis was a Vice President with HB Associates, an executive search and management consulting firm. Earlier in his career, Mr. Proithis held a variety of management, sales and consulting roles at Computer Sciences Corporation, Convergys and Electronic Data Systems. Mr. Proithis earned a Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications from Pennsylvania State University. |
Lawrence Shay |
Mr. Lawrence F. Shay is Executive Vice President - Intellectual Property, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of InterDigital Inc. He is President of InterDigital’s patent holding subsidiaries. Mr. Shay is responsible for overseeing all activities pertaining to InterDigital’s patent licensing business, including managing the company’s intellectual property assets, negotiating and administering license agreements and supervising litigation relating to intellectual property rights. He joined InterDigital in November 2001 as Chief Legal Officer and served as Corporate Secretary from November 2001 to September 2004. In February 2007, Mr. Shay’s title was revised to Chief Legal and Government Affairs Officer, without a change in responsibilities. Mr. Shay was appointed to his current position in January 2008. He previously served as General Counsel of U.S. Interactive, Inc., a multinational, publicly held Internet professional services corporation. From 1985 until 1999, Mr. Shay practiced corporate law with Dilworth Paxson LLP, a Philadelphia law firm. Mr. Shay earned his Juris Doctor, with honors, from the Temple University School of Law and is a magna cum laude graduate of Saint Joseph’s University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. |
Donald Dinella |
Mr. Donald P. Dinella is Chief Licensing Officer and Chief Licensing Counsel of InterDigital, Inc. He joined InterDigital in March 2013. He is responsible for managing the day-to-day licensing activities relating to the company’s patent portfolio. Prior to joining InterDigital, Mr. Dinella was at Alcatel Lucent, a innovator in the field of networking and communications technology, products and services, from 2006 to 2013. From 2011 to 2013, he served as Alcatel Lucent’s Chief IP Counsel and Vice President, IP Global Operations, Intellectual Property and Standards, with overall responsibility for Alcatel Lucents’s worldwide intellectual property business and legal activities, comprising legal, business, technical and administrative groups focused on patent prosecution, patent portfolio management, patent, technology and software licensing, patent assertion, IP law transactional services, IP business development, IP competitive intelligence and IP strategy. From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Dinella served as Alcatel Lucent’s Vice President, Business Development and Licensing, Intellectual Property and Standards, responsible for the company’s worldwide IP licensing and business development activities. Before Alcatel Lucent, Mr. Dinella held various positions at its predecessor companies Lucent Technologies and AT&T, where he started his career as an engineer. Mr. Dinella earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University, a Master of Science in Computer Integrated Manufacturing from Brigham Young University, a Master of Science in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Juris Doctor from the Seton Hall University School of Law. |
Gilbert Amelio |
Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio, Ph.D., is Independent Director of Interdigital Inc., since March 1, 2011. His career spans decades of executive leadership roles at technology companies, including Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Apple Computer; President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of National Semiconductor; and President of Rockwell Communication Systems, a unit of Rockwell International. A Senior Partner at Sienna Ventures, LLC, a venture capital firm, from 2001 through December 2011, a principal of GFA, LLC, a consulting firm, since 2005 and a Partner at Alteon Capital Partners, LLC, a consulting firm, since 2009, Dr. Amelio has been involved in the leadership or funding of a broad range of technology ventures, including Jazz Technologies, Inc., a publicly traded semiconductor foundry that he founded and where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2008, and Acquicor Management LLC, a former shareholder of Jazz Technologies. Acquicor Management declared bankruptcy in 2008. In 2003, AmTech, LLC, a high technology investment and consulting services firm where Dr. Amelio served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1999 to 2004, declared bankruptcy. Dr. Amelio is a pioneer in the U.S. technology industry, having started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Fairchild Semiconductor. A former director and chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association, Dr. Amelio has served on the board of governors of the Electronics Industries Association and been a member of the executive committee of the Business and Higher Education Forum. He also serves on the boards of directors of AT&T Inc. (since 2001) and Galectin Therapeutics Inc. (formerly known as Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) (since 2009). |
Jeffrey Belk |
Mr. Jeffrey K. Belk is Independent Director of InterDigital Inc., since March 30, 2010. Since 2008 he has served as Managing Director of ICT168 Capital, LLC, which is focused on developing and guiding global growth opportunities in the information and communications technologies space. Formerly, Mr. Belk spent almost 14 years at Qualcomm Incorporated, a developer and provider of digital wireless communications products and services, where, from 2006 until his departure in early 2008, he was Qualcomm’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Market Development, focused on examining changes in the wireless ecosystem and formulating approaches to help accelerate mobile broadband adoption and growth. From 2000 through 2006, Mr. Belk served as Qualcomm’s Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, a team responsible for all facets of the company’s corporate messaging, communications and marketing worldwide. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (since 2008) and the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance. |
Edward Kamins |
Mr. Edward B. Kamins is Independent Director of InterDigital Inc., since December 2003. Mr. Kamins is the principal member of UpFront Advisors, a business consulting services firm he founded in March 2009. From July 1999 until his retirement in February 2009, Mr. Kamins served as Corporate Senior Vice President of Avnet, Inc., one of the world’s global distributors of electronic components, enterprise computing and embedded subsystems. Mr. Kamins served as Chief Information Officer of Avnet beginning in July 2004 and accepted the newly created post of Chief Operational Excellence Officer in July 2006. He joined Avnet in 1996 as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Avnet Computer Marketing and founded and served as Group President of Avnet Applied Computing, a customized computer solutions business that grew to $1.6 billion in global revenues. Prior to that, his sixteen-year career with Digital Equipment culminated with the position of Vice President of Channels, with responsibility for a $1.5 billion revenue-generating North American channels business. |
John Kritzmacher |
Mr. John A. Kritzmacher is Independent Director of InterDigital Inc., since June 2009. From October 2012 through February 2013, Mr. Kritzmacher served as Senior Vice President Business Operations and Organizational Planning at WebMD Health Corp., a provider of health information services. Previously, Mr. Kritzmacher served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Global Crossing Limited, a global provider of IP-based telecommunications solutions from October 2008 to October 2011, when Global Crossing was acquired by Level 3 Communications, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Kritzmacher rose through a variety of positions with increasing responsibility, including Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller, during his 10 years at Lucent Technologies, a provider of telecommunications systems and services, to become Chief Financial Officer in 2006. After playing a role in the planning and execution of Lucent’s merger with Alcatel in 2006, Mr. Kritzmacher became Chief Operating Officer of the Services Business Group at Alcatel-Lucent until joining Global Crossing in 2008. In September 2011, Mr. Kritzmacher joined the board of directors of Duff & Phelps Corporation. |
Jean Rankin |
Ms. Jean F. Rankin is Independent Director of InterDigital, Inc., since June 2010. Ms. Rankin has served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at LSI Corporation, a provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies for the global storage and networking markets, since 2007. In this role, she serves LSI and its board of directors as Corporate Secretary, in addition to managing the company’s legal, intellectual property licensing and stock administration organizations. Ms. Rankin joined LSI in 2007 as part of the merger with Agere Systems, where she served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from 2000 to 2007. Prior to joining Agere in 2000, Ms. Rankin was responsible for corporate governance and corporate center legal support at Lucent Technologies, including mergers and acquisitions, securities laws, labor and employment, public relations, ERISA, investor relations and treasury. She also supervised legal support for Lucent’s microelectronics business. |
Robert Roath |
Mr. Robert S. Roath, CPA, is Independent Director of InterDigital Inc., since May 1997. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of RJR Nabisco, Inc. before his retirement in 1997. Mr. Roath is a long-time senior strategic and financial executive with diversified corporate and operating experience with various global companies, including Colgate-Palmolive, General Foods, GAF Corporation and Price Waterhouse. He has been a director of Standard Parking Corporation since its initial public offering in May 2004 and became its chairman of the board in October 2009. Mr. Roath also serves as chairman of Standard Parking’s compensation committee. |
Patrick Van de Wille |
Mr. Patrick Van de Wille has been appointed as Vice President - Communications and Investor Relations of InterDigital, Inc., effective October 31, 2012. Mr. Van de Wille joined InterDigital in February 2012 as Senior Director of Communications and Public Relations. Prior to joining InterDigital, he was Senior Vice President in the corporate communications and investor relations practice of FTI Consulting, where he helped lead the technology practice and managed client engagements for companies in the technology, financial services and resource industries. Mr. Van de Wille contributes more than two decades of experience in communications, including executive roles at global communications firms Ketchum and Text 100 and a decade of media and broadcast experience. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, and a Master of Arts from Northern Illinois University. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Steven Clontz |
-- |
William Merritt |
1,874,450 |
Richard Brezski |
607,394 |
Scott McQuilkin |
895,243 |
Jannie Lau |
541,461 |
James Nolan |
710,917 |
Allen Proithis |
-- |
Lawrence Shay |
1,018,000 |
Donald Dinella |
-- |
Gilbert Amelio |
-- |
Jeffrey Belk |
-- |
Edward Kamins |
-- |
John Kritzmacher |
-- |
Jean Rankin |
-- |
Robert Roath |
-- |
Patrick Van de Wille |
-- |
As Of 30 Dec 2012
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Steven Clontz |
0 | 0 |
William Merritt |
316,501 | 3,423,356 |
Richard Brezski |
0 | 0 |
Scott McQuilkin |
0 | 0 |
Jannie Lau |
0 | 0 |
James Nolan |
2,250 | 66,735 |
Allen Proithis |
0 | 0 |
Lawrence Shay |
68,000 | 899,540 |
Donald Dinella |
0 | 0 |
Gilbert Amelio |
0 | 0 |
Jeffrey Belk |
0 | 0 |
Edward Kamins |
0 | 0 |
John Kritzmacher |
0 | 0 |
Jean Rankin |
0 | 0 |
Robert Roath |
0 | 0 |
Patrick Van de Wille |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
RANKIN JEAN F |
3,253 | $0.00 |
ROATH ROBERT S |
3,253 | $0.00 |
BELK JEFFREY K |
3,253 | $0.00 |
AMELIO GILBERT F |
3,253 | $0.00 |
KRITZMACHER JOHN A |
3,253 | $0.00 |
KAMINS EDWARD B |
3,253 | $0.00 |
CLONTZ STEVEN TERRELL |
3,253 | $0.00 |
KAMINS EDWARD B |
1 | $46.25 |
BELK JEFFREY K |
1,820 | $46.25 |
KRITZMACHER JOHN A |
1,745 | $46.25 |
KRITZMACHER JOHN A |
1 | $46.25 |
BELK JEFFREY K |
1 | $46.25 |
KAMINS EDWARD B |
1,559 | $46.25 |
RANKIN JEAN F |
1,745 | $46.25 |
RANKIN JEAN F |
1 | $46.25 |
SIMPSON TODD G |
4,500 | $0.00 |
SIMPSON TODD G |
1,929 | $0.00 |
BREZSKI RICHARD J |
357 | $46.71 |
KRITZMACHER JOHN A |
2,000 | $43.53 |
SHAY LAWRENCE F |
49 | $0.00 |
KRITZMACHER JOHN A |
10 | $0.00 |
LAU JANNIE K |
14 | $0.00 |
PROITHIS ALLEN A |
19 | $0.00 |
RANKIN JEAN F |
10 | $0.00 |
CLONTZ STEVEN TERRELL |
87 | $0.00 |
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