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Audit
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Compensation
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Finance and Investment
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Nominating and Corporate Governance
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Executive
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Steven T. Clontz
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Chairman of the Board, InterDigital; Managing Director for North America and Europe, Singapore Technologies Telemedia
STEVEN T. ("TERRY") CLONTZ joined InterDigital's Board of Directors in April 1998 and was elected Chairman of the Board in January 2010. Also in January 2010, Mr. Clontz joined Singapore Technologies Telemedia as Managing Director for North America and Europe. From January 1999 through 2009, Mr. Clontz served as President and Chief Executive Officer of StarHub, a Singapore-based info-communications corporation providing a full range of information, communications and entertainment services over fixed, mobile, Internet and cable TV networks. He continues to serve as a non-executive director of StarHub.
Prior to joining StarHub, Mr. Clontz served as President and Chief Executive Officer and an executive Director of IPC Information Systems, a provider of financial trading communications solutions, from 1995 through 1998. Mr. Clontz began his career as an engineer with Southern Bell in 1973. He joined BellSouth International in 1987 and served as President of its Asia Pacific Region from 1992 through 1995.
In January 2010, Mr. Clontz joined the Board of Directors of eircom Limited, which is the largest telecom services provider in Ireland. Mr. Clontz was appointed to the Board of Directors of Equinix, a leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, in April 2005. In February 2004, he was appointed to the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Global Crossing, which provides telecommunications solutions over a global IP-based network.
Mr. Clontz earned his bachelor's degree in physics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Jeffrey K Belk
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Managing Director of ICT168 Capital, LLC
JEFFREY K. BELK joined InterDigital's Board of Directors in March 2010. Mr. Belk is Managing Director of ICT168 Capital, LLC, focused on developing and guiding global growth opportunities in the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) space. Formerly, Mr. Belk spent almost 14 years at Qualcomm Incorporated, where prior to 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 Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, leading a team responsible for all facets of the company's corporate messaging, communications, and marketing worldwide. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Belk was Senior Vice President & General Manager of Qualcomm Eudora Products, Qualcomm's award-winning email client. In 1997, Mr. Belk was named Vice President, Marketing, of Qualcomm Consumer Products and initiated the company's global branding and communications efforts.
Prior to Qualcomm, Mr. Belk spent ten years in the PC industry's early growth stages, primarily with Proxima Corporation. Mr. Belk joined the company in 1983, when the company had fewer than 25 employees, and was with the company in several key distribution, product management, and international roles up until its IPO in the early 1990s.
Mr. Belk is a member of the Boards of Directors of Peregrine Semiconductor and the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, and is also on the Advisory Boards of CommNexus, VRINGO, Roundbox, and NetroCity.
Mr. Belk earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California, San Diego, and his MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He is known globally as a commentator and writer on wireless, mobile broadband, and technology evolution.
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Edward B. Kamins
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Principal Member, UpFront Advisors
EDWARD B. KAMINS joined InterDigital's Board of Directors in 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, one of the world's largest global distributors of electronic components, enterprise computing, and embedded subsystems. He joined Avnet in 1996 as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Avnet Computer Marketing. A long-time operational executive, Mr. Kamins was the founder and Group President of Avnet Applied Computing, which customized computer solutions for markets such as medical, telecommunications, gaming, and others. That business grew to $1.6B globally. Mr. Kamins served as Chief Information Officer beginning in July of 2004 and accepted the newly created post of Chief Operational Excellence Officer in July of 2006.
Mr. Kamins has held several high technology marketing and sales positions with a range of manufacturers and was involved in various startup ventures. His 16-year career with Digital Equipment culminated with the position of Vice President of Channels, with responsibility for a $1.5 billion North American channels business.
In April 2006, Mr. Kamins joined the Board of Directors of Calence, a leader in building, managing and optimizing customized, client-centric networks. Calence was acquired by Insight Enterprises in April 2008.
Mr. Kamins holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, with honors, from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA in marketing from the C.W. Post Center of Long Island University. His affiliations include a 12-year membership on the Board of Directors of the Lupus Foundation of America, where he was honored in May 2002 as the recipient of its annual Altruism Award.
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John A. Kritzmacher
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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Global Crossing Limited
JOHN A. KRITZMACHER joined InterDigital's Board of Directors in June 2009. Mr. Kritzmacher has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Global Crossing, which provides telecommunications solutions over a global IP-based network, since October 2008.
Previously, Mr. Kritzmacher served as Chief Financial Officer at Lucent Technologies, where he managed functions including finance, accounting, treasury, tax, internal audit, investor relations and global real estate. Before becoming Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Kritzmacher rose through a variety of positions with increasing responsibility during his 10 years at Lucent, including Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller. After playing a leading 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. While there, he transformed a diverse suite of existing Alcatel and Lucent service functions into a unified global services organization. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kritzmacher advanced rapidly through a series of finance and operational roles at Lucent's predecessor, AT&T Network Systems.
Mr. Kritzmacher earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics at Dartmouth College and his MBA in accounting at the New York University Stern School of Business.
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Jean F. Rankin
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Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, LSI Corporation
JEAN F. RANKIN joined InterDigital's Board of Directors in June 2010. Ms. Rankin is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at LSI Corporation, a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies for the global storage and networking markets. 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 was also Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. 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.
Ms. Rankin received her law degree, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania, and earned a bachelor's degree with high distinction from the University of Virginia.
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Robert S. Roath
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Chief Financial Officer (Retired), RJR Nabisco, Inc.
ROBERT S. ROATH joined InterDigital's Board of Directors in May 1997. Mr. Roath served as Chief Financial Officer of RJR Nabisco before his retirement in 1997.
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, Mr. Roath has amassed achievements in operations, strategy formulation, business development and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Roath has been a director of Standard Parking, a provider of parking management services, since its IPO in May 2004 and became Chairman of its Board of Directors in October 2009. He also serves as Chairman of Standard Parking's Audit Committee. Mr. Roath has been Chairman of the Advisory Board to L.E.K. Consulting, a strategy and shareholder-value consulting firm, since May 1997.
Mr. Roath is a member of the Advisory Board to the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, where he received his bachelor's degree in accounting and economics in 1966. He is a registered CPA in the State of New York and has completed the Amos Tuck Executive Development program. Mr. Roath has been a speaker at various director seminars and was the keynote speaker at the first annual Business Ethics Conference at the University of Maryland.
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William J. Merritt
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President and Chief Executive Officer
WILLIAM J. MERRITT has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of InterDigital since May 2005. Mr. Merritt has played a key role in managing InterDigital's intellectual property assets and overseeing the growth of its patent licensing business. Mr. Merritt served as General Patent Counsel of InterDigital from July 2001 to May 2005 and also served as President of InterDigital Technology Corporation, a patent licensing subsidiary, from July 2001 to January 2008. Previously, Mr. Merritt served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of InterDigital.
Before joining InterDigital in 1996, Mr. Merritt served as Assistant General Counsel with the Long Island Lighting Company. Earlier on, Mr. Merritt concentrated his engineering efforts with Public Service Electric and Gas Company and Stone & Webster.
Mr. Merritt serves on the Board of Directors of AmberWave Systems Corporation, a privately held developer of intellectual property relating to strained silicon and other advanced material technologies for the semiconductor industry.
Mr. Merritt earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a J.D. from Temple University. Mr. Merritt is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York and before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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