Dr. Sundara Murthy is the Founder, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of SIGPRO Wireless Inc. Dr. Murthy also responsible for Technology Development. He has over 20 years of Telecommunications industry experience occupying a variety of engineering and management positions.

Industrial Experience: He gained wide ranging technology/product development experiences in a number of areas including Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system design, signal processing, modem design, Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) specification and design, and software development as applicable to wireless and satellite systems. He has pioneered CDMA applications to wireless and satellite systems. Starting as a Senior Engineer (Miller Communications, now Calian) in 1982 at he has held a number of technical and management positions including Manager (Telesat), Director (Vistar Telecom), Chief Architect (COM DEV), and Vice President (RIM). He joined Research in Motion (RIM) as Vice President of the CDMA Group and left to start SIGPRO in late 1999. He has received a number of awards of excellence including Telesat Canada's prestigious Award of Excellence for Superlative Performance for three consecutive years. He has pioneered many fronts in satellite/wireless communications. He has pioneered CDMA applications to wireless and satellite systems during late 80s and early 90s. During mid 90s at COM DEV he initiated, architectured and spear headed the design and development of a programmable ASIC for world's fastest modem (155 Mbps) for broadband satellite/wireless systems.

Academic Qualifications: Dr. Murthy has earned 4 University Degrees (BS & MS from University of Madras, M.Tech with Distinction form Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Ph. D. from University of Essex, UK), authored about 90 technical papers (journal & conference), and industrial reports and invented numerous engineering techniques, technologies and algorithms.

Professional Activities: Dr. Murthy has been an Adjunct Professor 3 Canadian Universities and Research Collaborator at one other for about 10 years. He has served as Technical Editor for 3 international journals in wireless and satellite communications. He was Co-Chair of IEEE's 2nd Universal Personal Communications Conference held in Ottawa, during 1992. He has delivered numerous invited distinguished lectures and panel presentations around the globe for abot 20 years. He has held many honorary positions including technical advisor, committee memberships, research advisor at organizations based in New York (UNDP), Geneva (ITU), Canada (NSERC, Micronet, CIDA), USA (NASA LRC, NASA JPL), India (DoT), Korea (ETRI).