Widelity adds Vern L. Fotheringham to Board of Advisors
March 2009Widelity, a leading provider of telecommunications consulting services, announced today that Vern L. Fotheringham has recently accepted a Widelity Board of Advisors position.
“Vern is recognized internationally as an industry leader and successful entrepreneur in the wireless and broadband communications industry.” Said Widelity CEO David Wiley. “Throughout his career he has been a catalyst for innovation and change in the competitive telecommunications field. We are pleased that Vern has decided to join our team”
Mr. Fotheringham is the principle of V. Fotheringham and Associates,
through which he provides management consulting services to Nextlink
Wireless, Inc.
as their Acting Chief Technical Officer. Recent assignments also include
managing major government RFP responses for Intelsat General Corporation.
He is a Managing
Director of IP Broadband Ltd. Mr. Fotheringham is also a managing member
of Community
Broadband, LLC a consulting firm specializing in advising municipalities
on IT and telecommunications matters. Previously he was the President
and CEO
of ADAPTIX,
Inc. a world leader in the development of next generation broadband wireless
system technology. ADAPTIX, Inc. pioneered and secured patent protection
for the core technology of what is now the IEEE 802.16(e) standard
for OFDMA high-speed,
scalable, interference immune, metropolitan area IP broadband radio systems.