Prakash Panjwani is the vice-president of worldwide embedded sales for SafeNet, a leading provider of internet security technology that is the de facto standard in the VPN industry. But he is better known as the man who developed the CDMA signaling standard within the Telecommunications Industry Association where he chaired the CDMA signaling group responsible for coordinating the efforts of such telecommunications giants as Lucent, Nortel, QUALCOMM, Nokia, Sprint PCS, and Motorola.

Prior to joining SafeNet, Panjwani worked with Certicom for five years as director, business development, with a specific focus on the wireless sector and the specific responsibility of developing and executing Certicom’s wireless strategy.

Panjwani was also a member of Motorola’s cellular infrastructure group where he contributed to the streamlining of Motorola’s standardizing efforts. Earlier, at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), he contributed to the development of the early architectures of the wireless Internet and wireless applications. He holds a BSc in electrical engineering from Columbia University and an MSc in information networking from Carnegie Mellon University. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Radicchio Group, an industry coalition established to push public key infrastructure (PKI) based wireless e-commerce security standards. n