People: Clearwire Corp (CLWR.O)

Dr. John C.B. Saw, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of Clearwire Corporation. Prior to being appointed as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President in November 2008, Dr. Saw served as Old Clearwire's Chief Technology Officer since July 2007. From October 2003 to July 2007, Dr. Saw served as Old Clearwire's Vice President of Engineering. Before joining Old Clearwire, from 2002 to 2003, Dr. Saw was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Fixed Wireless Access at Netro Corp (now SR Telecom) where he initiated the rollout of Netro's broadband wireless product in Europe. From 1997 to 2002 Dr. Saw served as Chief Engineer and Vice President of Engineering at AT&T Wireless (now AT&T). At AT&T Wireless, Dr. Saw was instrumental in the development and rollout of the company's digital broadband wireless service, one of the earliest orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based wireless systems deployed and foreshadowed the subsequent development of the WiMAX 802.16 standards. Before joining AT&T Wireless, Dr. Saw spent nine years in various leadership positions at Nortel where he was involved in the development of TDMA, GSM, CDMA, fixed wireless cellular infrastructure and microwave radio products.