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Joseph Garodnick
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Dr. Joseph Garodnick is a business executive and inventor in the telecommunications field.

Biography
Joseph Garodnick, Ph.D. was the Chief Technical Officer of Golden Bridge Technologies, Inc., a technology developer and innovator of spread spectrum application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to be used in wireless equipment. While with the company, he filed four spread spectrum patents and guided the technical team in the design of four ASICs. He represented the company in the TIA US standard group, the ETSI European standard group and designed GBT's third and fourth generation wireless systems.

Prior to joining the Company, he was Executive Vice President of InterDigital Communications Corp. (IDC:ASE), a worldwide supplier of digital wireless communications equipment. This $52M, 250 employee, publicly owned company produces and develops wireless video, audio, and data equipment using advanced technology techniques - Time Division Multiple Access and Wideband Code Division Multiple Access. Dr. Garodnick established strategic and tactical relationships with equipment companies and service providers in many foreign countries including Bangladesh, Japan, Australia, Russia, United Kingdom, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Brazil, and Mexico.

From 1986 until 1992, Dr. Garodnick was the Corporate Vice President of Fibronics International, Inc. (FBRX:NASDAQ), a $62M, high-tech, 480-employee fiber optic local area network equipment supplier. Through his efforts and responsibility for the international market¬ing and research and development programs, the Company became a major player in the area of high-speed local area networks, FDDI, Ether¬net and token ring hubs, main¬frame hardware and soft¬ware, and net¬work management systems. In 1981 he co-founded and was Chief Scientist of Phasecom Corporation, a manufacturing company that designs and manufactures CATV and high-speed data communication equipment. Through his initiative, General Instruments took an equity position in the company and an OEM contract was successfully negotiated with GI's new data communications division.

In 1975, Dr. Garodnick co-founded Stern Telecommunications Corporation, a system design company where, under contract from General Instruments, he designed and developed the first direct broadcast satellite systems. Other developments included patented CATV scrambling systems, and high speed fiber optic private urban networks for MCI and the New York stock exchanges.

He began his career at ITT Avionics in 1966 as a design engineer and moved to ATT Bell Laboratories after receiving his doctorate in 1972. Dr. Garodnick has published over 30 papers, was an officer in the IEEE, and holds 11 patents. He received a bachelor of electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his masters of science degree in electrical engineer¬ing from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the doctorate in electrical engineering from the City University of New York, where he taught as an adjunct professor for nine years.