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BobHeile

Bob Heile

Chair
ZigBee Alliance

Bob Heile is a 20-plus year veteran in the field of data communications and wireless data with several articles and workshops to his credit. He is a founding member and chair of 802.15, the IEEE working group on wireless personal-area networks, Chairman of the ZigBee Alliance, and chair of 802.15 Task Group 3a looking at UWB and other PHY layer alternatives for 802.15.3. In 1990, he was one of the founding members of 802.11 and continues in an active role today. With GTE, Bob was responsible for wireless opportunity business development. Bob joined BBN in early 1997, prior to its acquisition by GTE, with the mission of commercializing wireless ad hoc networking and wireless PAN technologies. From 1990 to 1996, he was VP of engineering and business development for TyLink Corp, a bootstrap start-up in high-speed digital access products and network and circuit management software, and was a co-founder of Windata, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of wireless LANs. From 1980-1990, Bob was with Codex, a subsidiary of Motorola, where he was VP/GM of the Company´s modem business. Bob holds a B.A. degree from Oberlin College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from The Johns Hopkins University.


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