Marc Mertsching
Vice President, Engineering
Marc Mertsching is a hands-on engineering executive with over 25 years experience developing chips, software, reference designs and complete systems for the telecommunications market. The hallmark of his career is the consistent achievement of first-pass success on the silicon chips that he and his teams have developed. . During his career Mertsching has held a variety of technical leadership positions, at the vice president and director levels, at Amicus Wireless, RF Micro Devices, Stanford Telecom and Andrew Corp.
Mertsching has developed chipsets and system products for applications ranging from wave 2 WiMAX 802.16e, 802.11a/g WLAN, cellular telephony and IP over satellite. He has specialized in rapidly building and managing teams of 100 engineers, as well as multi-disciplinary teams that have consistently achieved low product cost, shorter development time and commercial success in a start-up environment.
Mertsching did his work towards a B.A. in Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. He has several patents (granted and pending) in the field of wireless telecommunications.