Phil Belanger
Managing Director
Novarum

Phil has over 25 years of broad leadership in the technology, marketing and standards of data networks. Phil pioneered local area networking technology with Zilog and Corvus and extended that leadership by co-leading the multi-company technical and marketing efforts leading to the original IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networking standard.

Phil defined the original market position of wireless LANs for mobile computing with Xircom. With Aironet, he Chaired the Wi-Fi Alliance creating the Wi-Fi brand and laid the foundation for Wi-Fi's success with the acquisition of Aironet by Cisco. He helped create the business model for Wi-Fi service providers with Wayport and expanded the market for Wi-Fi infrastructure with extended range technology of Vivato and municipal mesh networks at BelAir Networks.

Phil is well known as an entertaining and direct speaker and commentator on wireless technology, applications and markets.