Mr Alan Carlton is Head of Wireless Research and Standards, SWE Department, at Apple. Alan has more than 30 years wireless industry experience spanning every generation of wireless. Previously, he worked at InterDigital for 19 years where he was VP of R&D Labs organization spanning Europe and Asia. Prior, to InterDigital he held senior positions at Siemens and Nortel, and several wireless startups in Europe and United States. Alan is EEE graduate of the University of Strathclyde and also holds and MSc. in Communications and Signal Processing from Imperial College, London.