Organisation

 

Adrie van Meijeren (Renesas)

Adrie was working in the semiconductor industry since 1991 - of which the last 17 years in sales and marketing of wireless system-on-chip products. Since 2016 he worked in Bluetooth low energy product marketing in Renesas as a marketing group manager being responsible for bringing multiple Bluetooth LE products successfully to market. From 1st of April 2022 Adrie joined the Audio & Voice product line as marketing director. 

 

Rudi Stahl (Gigaset) / CFO

Rudi has more than 30 years’ experience in computer engineering and VoIP technology and holds a Master of Business Administration.

He developed the international VoIP business for Snom from 2007 for many years and joined Gigaset in 2018.

Special interests are social engagement for handicapped people and boating.

 

Jens Christian Lindof (RTX)

Jens Christian has 30 years experience with wireless and RF technology, and holds an M.Sc.EE degree within telecommunication. In the early 90’es he was involved in developing some of the worlds first cell phones, and worked for many years with Texas Instruments on their cellular chipset development and reference designs, before working for a few years in Canada and US as a manager of wireless design groups at Flex and Anaren Microwave. Since 2011 he hasheaded the RTX Design Services business unit and was 2019 also appointed CTO for RTX A/S.
 
 

 

William Berrie (Shure)

William started work at a Philips Telecommunications division on analog telephony products. This led to designs for ISDN key-systems including interfaces for the short-lived CT2 cordless technology. Subsequently he worked on ATM, VoIP, SDH and OTN systems. He started working on DECT systems when he joined TES UK, where he also worked on Wimedia Ultra-Wide-Band. Currently he works at Shure UK on microphone systems utilizing DECT.

 

Andreas Zipp (VTech) / Chairman

Andreas Zipp joined VTech Telecommunications Hong Kong in 2006 to support VTech’s transition into new business areas. Andreas is responsible for broadband business development, new technologies and innovation in VTech Telecommunications ODM business division. Prior to joining VTech Andreas had been CTO of Swissvoice. Andreas has over 20-years-experience in Broadcasting Systems, Multimedia and Telecommunications in various senior positions. Since 2006 Andreas is a member of the board of the DECT forum, in 2012 he became chairman of the DECT Forum board.

 

Kristian Saether, Nordic Semiconductor

Kristian Saether was born in Lillehammer, Norway, and holds a M.Sc. degree in cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has 18+ years of experience in various R&D-, applications-, -marketing and -product management roles for microcontrollers, processors, UWB radar and wireless solutions. He enjoys working with new technologies set to transform the world.

 

Jussi Numminen, Wirepas

Jussi Numminen has over 30 years of experience on developing global wireless communication technologies ( 3G, 4G, DECT-2020 NR) and attending in standards development in various organizations (ETSI, 3GPP and ITU). He has joined Wirepas since 2015 and is responsible for radio strategy covering standards, regulation and IPRs. Jussi is serving also ETSI TC DECT vice-chair. Before joining Wirepas he has leading standardization role at Nokia, STMicroelectronics, ST-Ericsson and Ericsson.