Until April, 2002 Dr. Martyn F. Roetter was a Vice President and Director in the Technology and Innovation Directorate of Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL), within which he specialized in consulting and other professional services for firms in the TIME (Telecommunications, Information, Media, and Electronics) industries.
He has over 20 years of experience in consulting on business strategy and technology-related issues for companies in the telecommunications, electronics, and information systems industries, including equipment and components vendors and service providers, as well as financial investors in these industries. His activities have had extensive international and global components, covering markets and competitors in the three principal regions of North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. He has also dealt with basic questions of organization and management in the context of global businesses and markets.
Some of his most recent consulting and advisory activities include:
• Development of a business plan and marketing initiatives for the new MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) facility in Taiwan. This ongoing work has involved investigation of opportunities in diverse sectors of consumer electronics, cellular handsets, and optical communications, among others, as well as the identification, assessment and initiation of negotiations with potential manufacturing partners in the US.
• Review of alternative globalization strategies and tactics among European-, Japanese- and U.S.-based multinationals in a variety of business sectors on behalf of a French manufacturer. As a result, recommendations were developed that are now being implemented to help this client achieve a more balanced approach between centralization of responsibility and authority and encouragement of regional initiatives and influence to allow it to anticipate and influence critical standards issues and government regulations that affect its business in its major markets of Europe, North America, and Asia.
Dr. Roetter’s earlier positions included co-managing Arthur D. Little’s Global Communications and Information Technology Consulting Practice, and founding the European arm of this practice from a base in Paris. He was also responsible for developing the international business of the UK-based software and services company PA Computers and Telecommunications.
Dr. Roetter was educated in England, Germany, and the United States and holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Oxford. He has lived in the United States and several European countries, and speaks English, French and German. He speaks and publishes regularly, is widely quoted in the business and trade press on issues affecting the communications and information industries, and has co-authored several books on the uses of information technology. He is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Communications Society, and serves on the Board of Directors of Allen Telecom, Inc., where he is Chairman of the Compensation Committee.
He has over 20 years of experience in consulting on business strategy and technology-related issues for companies in the telecommunications, electronics, and information systems industries, including equipment and components vendors and service providers, as well as financial investors in these industries. His activities have had extensive international and global components, covering markets and competitors in the three principal regions of North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. He has also dealt with basic questions of organization and management in the context of global businesses and markets.
Some of his most recent consulting and advisory activities include:
• Development of a business plan and marketing initiatives for the new MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) facility in Taiwan. This ongoing work has involved investigation of opportunities in diverse sectors of consumer electronics, cellular handsets, and optical communications, among others, as well as the identification, assessment and initiation of negotiations with potential manufacturing partners in the US.
• Review of alternative globalization strategies and tactics among European-, Japanese- and U.S.-based multinationals in a variety of business sectors on behalf of a French manufacturer. As a result, recommendations were developed that are now being implemented to help this client achieve a more balanced approach between centralization of responsibility and authority and encouragement of regional initiatives and influence to allow it to anticipate and influence critical standards issues and government regulations that affect its business in its major markets of Europe, North America, and Asia.
Dr. Roetter’s earlier positions included co-managing Arthur D. Little’s Global Communications and Information Technology Consulting Practice, and founding the European arm of this practice from a base in Paris. He was also responsible for developing the international business of the UK-based software and services company PA Computers and Telecommunications.
Dr. Roetter was educated in England, Germany, and the United States and holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Oxford. He has lived in the United States and several European countries, and speaks English, French and German. He speaks and publishes regularly, is widely quoted in the business and trade press on issues affecting the communications and information industries, and has co-authored several books on the uses of information technology. He is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Communications Society, and serves on the Board of Directors of Allen Telecom, Inc., where he is Chairman of the Compensation Committee.
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