Paul E. Jacobs

Paul Jacobs has had a transformational impact on mobile communications. His innovations in mobile technology, networking, and devices are changing the way people relate to each other and the world at large. He helped initiate the smart phone revolution through breakthrough patents, devices, systems, platforms and business models. Smartphones are humanity's most broadly available computing platform, and these ubiquitous devices are having profound impacts in society across communications, education, health, commerce, and more. Paul is a widely respected technology visionary and contributes substantially as a civic leader in a broad range of national and international organizations.