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MARTIN COOPER Inventor, Entrepreneur, Futurist Cooper is an internationally renowned expert on technology and innovation and its impact on business and society. He is widely regarded as one of the leading inventors of our time and has spent most of the past 5 decades creating some of the world’s most important business and technological concepts and offerings. He is an activist who seeks to shape public policy in the US and globally having testified before various committees, and been featured in national publications and news shows. He is passionate about the revolution in health care and commerce that wireless technology will engender when networks are finally opened and new technology adopted. Cooper is also an accomplished entrepreneur and futurist. BIOGRAPHY Martin Cooper is Chairman and Co-Founder of DYNA, LLC and Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of ArrayComm, LLC, based in San Jose, CA. Cooper is also Co-Founder and director of GreatCall, Inc. the innovator of the Jitterbug cell phone and service. Cooper has been involved in and contributed to virtually every major innovation in personal wireless communications in his over 50-year career. He conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973 and is widely recognized as an innovator in spectrum management. For 29 years, he led a number of major businesses at Motorola, including high-capacity paging, trunked mobile radio, cellular radio telephone, quartz crystals and oscillators, liquid crystal displays, piezo-electric components, Motorola A.M. Stereo technology, and various mobile and portable two-way radio product lines. Following Motorola, Cooper co-founded Cellular Business Systems, Inc., a cellular billing system company. Cooper has numerous patents in the communications field. He is widely published and continues to write and lecture around the world about wireless communications, technological innovation, the Internet, and R&D management. Cooper was involved in industry and government efforts to allocate new radio frequency spectrum for the land mobile radio services in the U.S. and has testified before the Federal Communications Commission and the United States Senate. He serves on the U.S. Department of Commerce Spectrum Advisory Committee that advises the President of the United States on spectrum policy. He has received numerous awards, most recently being named as a recipient of the 2009 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. He has bachelors and masters degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology, was awarded an honorary doctorate by that institution, and serves on its board of trustees. Martin Cooper has served on the boards of several public and private companies. SPEAKING TOPICS Business/Data Privacy/Emerging Technology/Mobile Health Care Telecommunications/Spectral Efficiency/Wireless Innovation

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MARTIN COOPER Inventor, Entrepreneur, Futurist Cooper is an internationally renowned expert on technology and innovation and its impact on business and society. He is widely regarded as one of the leading inventors of our time and has spent most of the past 5 decades creating some of the world’s most important business and technological concepts and offerings. He is an activist who seeks to shape public policy in the US and globally having testified before various committees, and been featured in national publications and news shows. He is passionate about the revolution in health care and commerce that wireless technology will engender when networks are finally opened and new technology adopted. Cooper is also an accomplished entrepreneur and futurist.

BIOGRAPHY Martin Cooper is Chairman and Co-Founder of DYNA, LLC and Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of ArrayComm, LLC, based in San Jose, CA. Cooper is also Co-Founder and director of GreatCall, Inc. the innovator of the Jitterbug cell phone and service. Cooper has been involved in and contributed to virtually every major innovation in personal wireless communications in his over 50-year career. He conceived the first portable cellular phone in 1973 and is widely recognized as an innovator in spectrum management. For 29 years, he led a number of major businesses at Motorola, including high-capacity paging, trunked mobile radio, cellular radio telephone, quartz crystals and oscillators, liquid crystal displays, piezo-electric components, Motorola A.M. Stereo technology, and various mobile and portable two-way radio product lines. Following Motorola, Cooper co-founded Cellular Business Systems, Inc., a cellular billing system company. Cooper has numerous patents in the communications field. He is widely published and continues to write and lecture around the world about wireless communications, technological innovation, the Internet, and R&D management. Cooper was involved in industry and government efforts to allocate new radio frequency spectrum for the land mobile radio services in the U.S. and has testified before the Federal Communications Commission and the United States Senate. He serves on the U.S. Department of Commerce Spectrum Advisory Committee that advises the President of the United States on spectrum policy. He has received numerous awards, most recently being named as a recipient of the 2009 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. He has bachelors and masters degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology, was awarded an honorary doctorate by that institution, and serves on its board of trustees. Martin Cooper has served on the boards of several public and private companies. SPEAKING TOPICS Business/Data Privacy/Emerging Technology/Mobile Health Care Telecommunications/Spectral Efficiency/Wireless Innovation

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AWARDS & RECOGNITION Member, National Academy of Engineering 2010 Laureate and recipient of the 2009 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, The Prince of Asturias Foundation, Oviedo, Spain fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/en/ Radio Club of America Fred Link Award and Fellow. IEEE Centennial Medal and Fellow. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Business Transformation Technology Change Leader Award for technological innovations in the communications field. Cooper inaugural member of RCR's Wireless Hall of Fame Wireless Systems Design 2002 Industry Leader award American Computer Museum’s George R. Stibitz Computer and Communications Pioneer Award Named by Red Herring magazine one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs of 2000 Cooper received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for technological innovations in the communication field FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF RECENT ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS WHERE MARTY COOPER HAS BEEN THE FEATURED. 8.19.2010 – Martin  Cooper,  Inventor  of  the  Cell  Phone,  Entrepreneur,  Futurist, GotInvention.com 8.3.2010 – Yo  Hice  la  Primera  Llamada  Celular  de  la  Historia,  Citytv.com.co.   7.26.2010 – The future of Cell and Smart Phones, The Diane Rehm Show, NPR 7.9.2010 – Inventor of Cell Phone: We Knew Someday Everybody Would Have One, by Tas Anjarwalla, CNN.com. 5.21.2010 – Cell Phone: Marty Cooper’s Big Idea, 60 Minutes, CBS News. 3.25.2010 – Mobile Cell Phone History – Communication Technology, Online Communication Channel.

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3.16.2010 – Mobile Cell Phone Inventor on the Wireless Industry, C-SPAN TV 2.21.2010 – Coopers Calling, By Roger Field, CommsMea. 12.7.09 - Driven to Distraction, Promoting the Car Phone, Despite Risks, By Matt Richtel, The New York Times. 8.18.09 - Interview with Maureen Cavanaugh, KPBS, San Diego, CA. www.kpbs.org/news/2009/aug/18/inventor-mobile-phone-talks-texting-future-communi/ 7.28.09 - Conversation with Martin Cooper, "Eight Forty-Eight," WBEZ 91.5 FM, Chicago Public Radio www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=35797 6.4.09 - Brain Scan; Father of the Cell Phone, The Economist. FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF RECENT EVENTS AND CONFERENCES WHERE MARTY HAS BEEN THE FEATURED SPEAKER. Science and Innovation Week 2009, Palacio de Mineria, Mexico City, Mexico "History and Future of Cellular Communications," Universidad International Menendez Pelayo (UIMP), Santander, Spain "31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners" at the Palacio de Congresos, Madrid, Spain www.privacyconference2009.org/privacyconf2009/index-ides-idweb.html Martin Cooper, Keynote, "Communications Marketing Conference," at the Bahai Hotel, San Diego, CA www.cma-cmc.org/ Martin Cooper, Speaker, "The ICAP CEO Summit 2009," Hyatt Regency Hotel, Huntington Beach, CA WHAT OTHERS SAY: "The City of Mexico was thrilled to host such a wonderful innovator of the 21st century, the audience found Marty to be truly enlightening." Romy Barberi Directora de Planeación Estratégica Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Distrito Federal "Marty Cooper´s keynote speech was definitely one of the highlights of the Conference. It was a real privilege to listen to his insider and authoritative views on the creation, evolution and

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especially the future of mobile telephony. He expressed very powerful and innovative ideas in a simple and witty manner." Jose M. Sanz-Magallon CEO, Telefonica, Internacional USA “Marty Cooper was terrific”! It is such an honor to have Marty address our group(s) – CMA and RCA. Most of us have worked together for almost 40 years. It’s just so much fun. That being said, we all know Marty personally or are well aware of his accomplishments and contributions to the industry. It is just such an honor to have him join us.” Mercy Contreras Executive Director The Communications Marketing Association Please call Sheryl Wilkerson at +1703.855.1208 or email [email protected] for more information on Martin Cooper’s speech topics and availability. 1/2010