Sheldon Gilbert

Sheldon Gilbert has over 20 years of executive management experience in the communications and semiconductor industries. Sheldon has helped found and has been an early key team member atfour venture-backed start-ups and holds more than 12 patents in various aspects of wired and wireless communications. Most recently, Sheldon founded Ensemble Communications, which with over 250 employees around the world, was a founding member of WiMAX, a key contributor of technology to that standard, and a leading developer of broadband wireless and LMDS equipment. Prior to that, Sheldon was responsible for the development of one of the earliest smart-antenna wireless systems, which has been deployed at over 100,000 sites throughout Japan’s PHS system. He graduated with a BSEE from the University of Illinois, Urbana and an MSEE from MIT.