Mark Pecen serves as Vice President, Advanced Technology for Research in Motion Limited (RIM), makers of the BlackBerry wireless devices, systems and services. He reports to RIM CEO and founder Mike Lazaridis and is responsible for economic and strategic assessment of advanced wireless technology investments, commercialization of applied research, strategic technology partnerships and customer collaboration on future technology deployment.
Pecen established RIM’s Advanced Technology Research Centre in 2005. The centre’s focus is wireless systems research, including all aspects from radio frequency hardware and antennas to core network technology and wireless-specific services. It serves as an internal incubator for technology for new products, features and global wireless standards. Topics include signal processing, information theory, cryptography, data compression, radio system protocols and mobility control, prototyping of hardware and software, new technology trials and audio/video codec research. The research centre also provides analysis, simulation and innovative solutions for development and production groups within RIM.
Pecen represents Research In Motion to industry and academic organizations, and serves as an advisor to Canadian government on wireless communication and research. He holds board positions on 3G Americas, Ecole Polytechnique, Wilfred Laurier University School of Business, Quantum Works academic network for quantum information research and the Communication Research Centre (CRC) of Industry Canada.
As a veteran of the wireless industry, he holds more than 100 fundamental patents in areas of mobile communication, networking and computing, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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