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Craig Farrill has spent 28 years creating and leading high growth, wireless telecommunications businesses. Regarded as a technology visionary, his background in wireless technology is extensive and he has led a number of wireless industry initiatives to accelerate business growth and technological change. Craig serves on the board of Conexant Systems, a publicly-held semiconductor company and as an advisor to several wireless start-up companies.
Prior to founding Kodiak in 2001, Craig was Managing Director at inOvate Communications Group, an early stage venture capital firm focusing on investments in the wireless space. Previously, Craig served as Chief Technology Officer for Vodafone AirTouch Plc, where he developed and deployed an integrated global technology strategy across Vodafone's 27 national operations serving 100 million customers. In the 1990's as CTO, Craig expanded PacTel's wireless businesses from California to 13 countries internationally and led the $1.8 Billion IPO of AirTouch Communications in 1994. Craig began his career in telecommunications systems engineering in the mid 1970's at Rockwell International's Collins Radio Group and began working in a cellular start-up in 1980.
Career Highlights
Promoted GSM since its inception in the early '90's, leading AirTouch's national network design and license wins for D2 in Germany and Telecel in Portugal
Founded the CDMA Development Group (CDG), an international industry association furthering the development of next generation wideband digital cellular technology (1993)
Promoted application of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology to digital cellular networks, the first CTO in the wireless industry to do so (1989)
Launched the first commercial CDMA system in a major U.S. market (1996)
Founded the Joint Initiative toward Mobile Multimedia (JIMM), an association of the top ten multi-national wireless operators fostering the global development of third generation mobile multimedia services (1999)
Founded the Operators Harmonization Group (OHG) in 1997, bringing together GSM, cdmaOne and PDC operators to converge global 3G standards
Launched the cellular business at Communications Industries (CI) in 1980
Craig received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the University of Oklahoma in 1974, and a Masters degree in Business (MBA) in 1979 from the University of Dallas. Craig is a Registered Professional Engineer and holds several U.S. patents in the telecommunications field.
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