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Allen Salmasi is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of NextWave Wireless and NextWave Broadband. Previously, Mr. Salmasi served as Chairman and CEO of NextWave Telecom, which he founded in 1995 and subsequently sold to Verizon Wireless in 2005.
Prior to NextWave Telecom, Mr. Salmasi was a member of the Board of Directors, President of the Wireless Telecommunications Division, and Chief Strategic Officer of QUALCOMM Inc. He joined QUALCOMM in 1988 as a result of the merger of QUALCOMM and Omninet Corporation, which Mr. Salmasi founded in 1984. He initiated and led the development of CDMA cellular and PCS technologies and the associated businesses at QUALCOMM until 1995. At Omninet, among other technologies, Mr. Salmasi led the development and the operation of the OmniTRACS system and service, the world's first and currently the largest commercial mobile satellite communications service. From 1979 to 1984, Mr. Salmasi held several technical and management positions at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Mr. Salmasi received two B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Management Economics from Purdue University in 1977. He received his M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1979 and Applied Mathematics from the University of Southern California in 1983, respectively. He completed his course work at the University of Southern California towards a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering. | 