Board of Directors
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Jeffrey L. Parker
Chairman of the Board and CEO -
Jeffrey L. Parker has been chairman of the board and the chief executive officer since ParkerVision's inception in August 1989 and the president from April 1993 to June 1998. From March 1983 to August 1989, Mr. Parker served as executive vice president for Parker Electronics, Inc., a joint venture partner with Carrier Corporation performing research & development, manufacturing and sales & marketing for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry.
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Papken S. der Torossian
Independent Director -
Papken S. der Torossian has been a director since June 2003. Mr. der Torossian was chief executive officer of SVGI from 1986 until 2001. Prior to his joining SVGI, he was president and chief executive officer of ECS Microsystems, a communications and PC company that was acquired by AMPEX Corporation where he stayed on as a manager for a year. From 1976 to 1981 Mr. der Torossian was president of the Santa Cruz Division of Plantronics where he also served as vice president of the Telephone Products Group. Previous to that he spent four years at Spectra-Physics and twelve years with Hewlett-Packard in a variety of management positions. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. der Torossian served on the board of the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group. In March 2003, he joined the board of directors as chairman of Therma-Wave, Inc., a Company engaged in the manufacture and sale of process control metrology systems used in manufacturing semiconductors.
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William A. Hightower
Independent Director -
William A. Hightower has been a director since March 1999. From September 2003 to his retirement in November 2004, Mr. Hightower was the president of the Company. Mr. Hightower was the president and chief operating officer and a director of Silicon Valley Group, Inc. ("SVGI"), from August 1997 until his retirement in May 2001. SVGI is a publicly held Company which designs and builds semiconductor capital equipment tools for chip manufacturers. Mr. Hightower served as chairman and chief executive officer of CADNET Corporation, a developer of network software solutions for the architectural industry from January 1996 to August 1997. From August 1989 to January 1996, Mr. Hightower was the president and chief executive officer of Telematics International, Inc.
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John Metcalf
Independent Director -
John Metcalf has been a director since June 2004. Since November 2002, Mr. Metcalf has been a CFO Partner with Tatum LLC, the largest executive services and consulting firm in the United States. Mr. Metcalf has 18 years experience as a CFO, most recently at ESI, a provider of high-technology manufacturing equipment to the global electronics market. Prior to ESI, Mr. Metcalf has served as CFO for Siltronic, WaferTech, Siltec Corporation, and OKI Semiconductor. Mr. Metcalf began his career at AMD, where he worked for eleven years in a number of finance managerial positions including Director & Controller of North American Operations. Mr. Metcalf also currently serves on the Board of Directors and is Chairman of the Audit Committee for Microfield Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: MICG).
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Todd Parker
Director -
Todd Parker has been a director since ParkerVision's inception and was a vice president from inception to June 1997 and from July 2002 to August 2006.
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William L. Sammons
Independent Director -
William L. Sammons has been a director since October 1993. From 1981 until his retirement in 1985, Mr. Sammons was president of the North American Operations of Carrier Corporation.
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David F. Sorrells
Director and Chief Technical Officer -
David F. Sorrells has been Chief Technology Officer since September 1996 and has been a director since January 1997. From June 1990 to September 1996, Mr. Sorrells served as the engineering manager.
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Robert G. Sterne
Independent Director -
Robert G. Sterne has been a director since September 2006. Mr. Sterne also served as a director of ParkerVision from February 2000 to June 2003. Since 1978, Mr. Sterne has been a partner of the law firm of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC, specializing in patent and other intellectual property law. Mr. Sterne provides legal services to ParkerVision as one of its patent and intellectual property attorneys.
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Nam P. Suh
Independent Director -
Nam P. Suh has been a director since December 2003. Mr. Suh was inaugurated as President of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in July 2006. He is currently on a leave of absence from MIT where he has been a member of the faculty since 1970. At MIT, Mr. Suh held many positions including director of the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, head of the department of Mechanical Engineering (1991-2001) director of the MIT Manufacturing Institute and director of the Park Center for Complex Systems. In 1984, Mr. Suh was appointed the Assistant Director for Engineering of the National Science Foundation by President Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Mr. Suh is a widely published author of approximately 300 articles and seven books on topics related to tribology, manufacturing, plastics and design. Mr. Suh has approximately 50 United States patents and many foreign patents, some of which relate to plastics, polymers and design. Mr. Suh serves on two other public company boards including Therma-Wave, Inc. and Integrated Device Technology, Inc.


