F. Craig Farrill

Who is F. Craig Farrill?

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.