GPS World - May 2008 - (Page 44)

GPS WORLD EXCLUSIVE Andrew R. Etkind Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary | Garmin International, Inc. Garmin led the GPS charge into the consumer marketplace some years ago and now holds a commanding global position. It currently fields products across multiple markets including automotive, aviation, marine, fitness, outdoor recreation, and wireless. Garmin reported total FY07 revenue of $3.18 billion, up 79 percent from 2006, and announced that it anticipates overall revenue to exceed $4.5 billion in 2008. It recently entered the mobile phone market with the nüvifone, a touchscreen device combining a premium phone, mobile web-browser, and personal navigator. Etkind worked on the company' s IPO in 2000 and now heads an 11-person legal department. Alain Bories Senior Vice President | OHB Technology; Honorary Chairman | Galileo Services (left, with GPSW advisor Jac Spaans) Georgia Frousiakis Technical Marketing and Applications Manager | Location Solutions, RF Micro Devices, Inc. David Tuck Staff Systems Engineer | SiRF Technology ª My goal is to ensure the success of Galileo, because I am convinced that it is a key programme for the European Union, as a strategic infrastructure needed for the development of key technologies by European industry. I strongly support the new EU process to ensure that the infrastructure will be delivered without further delay or cost overruns. A key issue is a fair competition for supply of the satellites, with a double-source policy to secure the procurement and to keep competition in the long term.º ª In such a competitive market it is especially important to differentiMember of a team that defines RFMD' s location products, setting performance stan- ate our products by better performance and with greater availability. dards per millimeter square with minimal We plan to take advantage of our impact to battery life Ð two key metrics for high-performance hardware which mobile device manufacturers Ð Frousiakis tracks at very weak signals. Expecinterfaces with customers designing energy-sensitive mobile devices that enable tations continue to grow to perform well in very poor conditions, location-based services, which will continue to push us to and seeks new applicaadd complementary tions for the highly Chief Scientist | Telespazio SpA technology and get integrated, low-power creative with the chips featuring softIn his role of chief scientist at Telessignals available.º ware-based, syspazio and as chairman of the Focus tem-on-chip (SoC) Group on Systems Engineering in architectures, the frame of the MindSh@re initiasuch as the tive of Finmeccanica, Lisi' s planned RF8000 GPS GNSS activities for 2008/09 will aim chip series at gaining a widespread awareness that RFMD of the importance of the Galileo recently system as a global critical infrastructure, in the perspective of what he names unveiled. Network Centric ª Welfareº Systems. This is also his goal as newly appointed vice-chairman of the NEER (Network Enabled Emergency Response) team in the NCOIC (Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium) organization. Marco Lisi 44 GPS World | May 2008 www.gpsworld.com http://www.gpsworld.com

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