Arlene Harris
Organization founder
1948 –
Who is Arlene Harris?
Arlene Joy Harris, also known as the "First Lady of Wireless," is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, investor and policy advocate. Her career spans a lifetime of innovation in mobile services and systems technology and later, wireless consumer products and services. Harris started and built several successful companies, pioneered many of the early cellular industry standards and holds numerous issued wireless communications patents. In May, 2007 she won industry-wide acclaim as the first woman inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame.
Harris is co-founder and CEO of Dyna LLC, in Del Mar, California, where she incubates new ideas and businesses with husband and business partner Martin Cooper, a former Motorola Vice-President and Division Manager who developed and introduced the first handheld cellular mobile phone in 1973.
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- Born
- Jun 6, 1948
- Also known as
- The First Lady of Wireless
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Martin Cooper
(1972 - ) - Martin Cooper
- Martin Cooper
- Employment
- Chief Strategy Officer, GreatCall
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on July 23, 2013
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