"Increase Sales, Raise Money and Leverage New Technology"

Background

Each senior consultant has over 20 years experience and can hit the ground running.

We have worked with over 40 technical products, filed over  20 patents, lead over 20 product launches, defined over 10 new product segments, managed alliances/mergers, and over 20 technology acquisitions. We have worked in many formal standards groups, PCI, VESA, MIDI, PCIe, SATA, T13, T10, 802.11, 802.15, HomePlug, HomePNA, Bluetooth, DVDForum, WECA, WiFi, and many more. We have written portions of standards, written for publications, written and designed webpages, and presented on panels in an evangelist role.

CEO and President of Maxwell Consulting Associates, Inc.

                                               Conrad started his career in Silicon Valley in the early 80’s at Dysan Corp. He worked as an R&D Manager at Dysan and was over new product design and development of robotic hard drive and floppy media alignment machines. He then went into Product Management responsible for Retail and O.E.M. products lines at GTL Ltd. / ComputerLand, then similar roles at Samsung and at Everex Systems . From retail/O.E.M. Product Management, he went on to semiconductors product marketing, he was at VLSI Technology in Strategic Marketing and managed their investment into new technologies. From there he went to Conexant Systems Inc. (formerly Rockwell), and was the Director of Technology/Product Planning. He now runs Maxwell Consulting Associates, a firm that helps companies with their Product & Technology Planning, Business Planning and Business Development, IP Licensing, Management and Technical Marketing.

He has an Electrical Engineering Degree, a B. S. from Cal State Hayward, and an MBA from ASU. He has been published in a technology textbook, many magazines, many technical journals, helped write multiple industry standards and has patents and patents pending. He is an instructor of Marketing at UCI Extensions and was the chairman of the Interactive Audio SIG -Three Dimensional Working Group, Member of the Board of Directors for the HomePNA and ACR SIG, and a voting member of the Bluetooth PAN working group, WECA/WiFi WG, 802.11 WGs, 802.1WGs, DVD Forum, USB WG and VESA WGs. He currently participates in SATA IO WGs, PCIe and T13.

Location: 1083 Stanislaus Drive, Corona, CA 92881

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