John Major
Chairman, Broadcom Corporation
"The Broadcom Story and Some Insights into the Future of Wireless"
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
7:00 a.m. – Continental Breakfast & Registration
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. - Program
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Fish & Richardson Law Center
12390 El Camino Real
San Diego, CA 92130
John Major, Chairman of the Board of Broadcom Corporation, spent most of his career in wireless technology at leading companies including Motorola, Qualcomm, Novatel Wireless and now at Broadcom. Mr. Major is uniquely positioned to share insights with us into the future of wireless telecommunications, as well as the Broadcom story.
Broadcom's story is that of a major producer of semiconductors, for both wired and wireless communications, which successfully realized 2008 revenues of nearly $5 billion. With Mr. Major leading the legal strategy, the company has also recently won several high profile litigation victories. One highlight was Qualcomm's April 2009 settlement in which they agreed to pay their rival $891 million to end a patent dispute. Later, in December, a lingering major stock-options case -- brought by the US Government against former executives of the chipmaker -- collapsed with a judge dismissing the charges. John Major's Biography
John Major is both the Founder and President of MTSG, a strategic consulting business specializing in emerging opportunities and the Chairman of Broadcom. He has also been the CEO of Apacheta, a company that delivers complex wireless applications to improve worker and supply chain efficiency. Previous to Apacheta, he was Chairman and CEO of Novatel Wireless where he led the company’s successful IPO in the fall of 2000.
Before Novatel Wireless, Mr. Major was Chairman and CEO of Wireless Knowledge. Prior to joining Wireless Knowledge in November 1998, Mr. Major served as corporate Executive Vice President of Qualcomm and President of its Wireless Infrastructure Division where he managed the high growth rate and global expansion of the company’s infrastructure business. Under his leadership, the division achieved a leading position in open interface wireless systems and developed a new line of extremely compact base stations. Mr. Major successfully held several executive leadership positions at Motorola from 1977 until joining Qualcomm in 1997.
Mr. Major participates in several industry and community organizations including serving as the Chairman of CommNexus a telecom industry association and Chairman of the University of Illinois (Chicago) Engineering School Advisory Board. His board memberships include the Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, the University of California’s Board on Science and Innovation, and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.
He serves on the Board of Directors of Littelfuse, Orbcomm and Lennox Corporations, and was an advisor to Wireless Facilities as well as Loral Space Systems.
Mr. Major received a B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Rochester, and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois. He also holds an M.B.A. with distinction from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Loyola University. He received an honorary doctorate from Westminster College. He is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma honorary society. In 2002, he received the Meliora Citation for Career Achievement from the University of Rochester.
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Location: Fish & Richardson Law Center, 12390 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA 92130 (From I-5 South, exit Carmel Valley Rd/Hwy 56 East. Left off exit. Left onto El Camino Real, left at third traffic light onto Del Mar Corporate Ct. The Fish & Richardson building is on the right.
(From I-5 North, don't take 56 bypass, exit Carmel Valley Rd. Right off exit. Left onto El Camino Real, left at third traffic light onto Del Mar Corporate Ct. The Fish and Richardson Building is on the right.) 
