BIO
Las Vegas, 19-20 March 2006
Helmut Schink, Siemens AG
Session coordinator and moderator for
Session:
Closing Session (Wrap-up & Next Steps)
Current Position:
Siemens Com, Common Development,
Vice President Systems Engineering, Responsible for standardization, funded research management and innovation management
Various external functions in ITU, TMF, ISOC, ETSI and ICANN, like member of the Board of the
Telemanagement Forum, ITU-T SG 13 vice-chair, Member of the board of directors of ICANN
(until June 2003), chair of ETSI project TIPHON on IP Telephony (until 2001)
Job career:
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9 years in business unit for public communication networks, holding various technical and management functions marketing, like strategic product planning, business development and standardization.
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3 years in the corporate management and in strategic business development and developed e.g. a system for the seed development
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7 years development of semiconductor processes for GaAs high speed and low noise devices and developed e.g. a leading High Electron Mobility Transistor.
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4 years of basic research in micro-analytics
 entered Siemens in 1980
Educational background:
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Studies of Physics at Technical University of München
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Diploma in Physics and Doctor degree in the area of micro-analytics and semiconductor physics.