Presenter Bios

Cheryl has over 12 years experience covering high-tech for Electronic Design and Embedded Systems Development and served as Editor in Chief of Wireless Systems Design.

Marcus da Silva has over 27 years of experience in the test and measurement and telecommunications fields. Before Tektronix, Marcus was Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer at Vivato where he assembled and managed the team that developed the industry’s first Wi-Fi Switch, a device that dramatically extends the range of wireless LANs with the unique combination of phased array antennas, switching and WLAN technology. Previously, Marcus held various engineering, management and marketing positions at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent over a 23-year period. He also had several engineering, marketing and manufacturing assignments where he made notable contributions in frequency synthesis, test methodologies, device modeling, microwave component design and metrology. In addition to his management and engineering work, Marcus was a key technical contributor work with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that led to changes in the rules for unlicensed band use. He has also contributed the IEEE 802 Wireless LAN standards and the TIA Cellular standards committees. Marcus was adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Gonzaga University. He has received ten patents and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.