Karl J. Weaver Bio

Karl J. Weaver is a globally trained wireless executive with Mandarin Chinese Language and Asian cross-cultural business expertise. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1982 from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. He then received a 3-year scholarship to study Mandarin Chinese language at National Taiwan Normal University, Mandarin Training Center in Taipei, Taiwan.

From 1985 to 1992 he worked in Taiwan as Export Sales Manager in the microcomputer manufacturing industry for Digicom, Inc. After ten years in Taiwan, he returned to the US and and helped four wireless/telecom technology companies (Zetron, Metawave, Leviton Voice & Data, and Intrinsyc Software International) export wireless technologies to Asia-Pacific markets.

After receiving a certification in Wireless Communications from the University of Washington, Seattle, Weaver was recruited by Freescale Semiconductor from 2004~mid-2005 to work on wireless connectivity solutions and mobile device convergence in 2005-2005. 

In 2005 he became Greater China Handset Business Development Manager for Intrinsyc Software International, promoting a feature phone operating system based on Windows CE’s core SKU to Greater Chinese OEM/ODM handset vendors. In 2007, Weaver took a part-time post as Adjunct Professor, Dept of Management/Marketing at Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics.

In 2008 he assumed his current role as OEM/ODM Handset Business Development Manager at Gemalto, specializing in SIM-embedded technologies for handsets.

From 2002 to the present , Weaver has delivered over 100 presentations in the USA, Europe and Asia on smartphones, converged mobile devices, Mobile WiMAX and the “Subtle Art of Doing Business” with China and India.