Brian Wadell

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Brian Wadell

Biography

Brian C. Wadell is the President of Guided Wave Solutions where he is a consultant in analog and microwave instrumentation. Previously he was with Teradyne, Inc. for 14 years where he architected the first high volume production tester with an RF pin (dc, rf source, modulation, vector network analyzer). In the 1990s he was CTO at the startup Trakus which developed technology for measuring professional athletes’ performance during competition including systems for the NFL, NHL, NASCAR, the PGA Tour, and the Marathon. Most recently, Brian was Business Manager for medical ICs at Maxim Integrated Products.

Mr. Wadell is the author of the Transmission Line Handbook. He has patents in RF ATE, packaging, and multilateration. He led the hardware team that won the Popular Science Best Technology of 2000 award for StarTrack. He has a BSEE and an MEng from Cornell University. IMS Past President - 2002-2003; Technical Committee Chair

Position(s) & Affiliation(s)

Guided Wave Solutions
United States