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About Signals Research Group
Signals Research Group, LLC is a US-based research consultancy that offers thought-leading field research and consulting services on the wireless telecommunications industry.

The "no holds barred" approach to conducting research and analysis means that SRG's first and foremost objective is to offer differentiated research products and services. Instead of just capturing market data analyzing past events, SRG focus on where the industry will be tomorrow and the technologies and service offerings that will shape its future and not those that defined its past.

  • International Presence: SRG is committed to extensive traveling to provide proprietary insight on the growth prospects in developed and emerging wireless markets around the world.
  • Technology focused: SRG takes nothing for granted, instead striving to understand the underlying technologies and their respective issues and challenges.
     
  • "Hands on" approach: SRG relies upon personal experiences to help shape the opinion of the real potential for various wireless technologies, thus removing the marketing hype and
    is information that inevitably exists.
 
Michael Thelander CEO and Founder.  
Michael Thelander is the CEO and Founder of Signals Research Group. Previously, Mr. Thelander was an analyst with Deutsche Bank Equity Research where he spearheaded the creation and subsequent publication of the Signals to Noise (S2N) newsletter and The Rise of the 3G Empire thematic reports, which many industry followers considered to be the preeminent research products of their kind.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Thelander was a consultant with KPMG (now known as BearingPoint) and a communications officer with the United States Army. Mr. Thelander has also published numerous articles for leading trade publications and engineering journals throughout his career.
He has been an invited speaker at industry conferences around the world and he is frequently quoted by major news sources and industry newsletters, including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Reuters, Bloomberg News, and The China Daily.

Mr. Thelander earned a Masters of Science in Solid State Physics from North Carolina State University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.



J. Randolph Luening VP, Wireless Economics.
Prior to his association with SRG, J. Randolph Luening spent 17 years at Vodafone Group, PLC a UK-based wireless operator, with businesses in 25 countries around the world. His roles, most recently as a Senior Director, included strategic planning, marketing, and technology strategy.
Mr. Luening spent much of his career pursuing emerging wireless opportunities - building business cases, evaluating M&A opportunities, advocating product / technology positions, and driving major corporate initiatives. His efforts included developing valuation models used to assess the strategic implications of many different business initiatives.

Prior to Vodafone and its progenitor organizations (PacTel Cellular, PacTel Corporation, AirTouch Communications) Mr. Luening worked in other segments of the telecommunications industry, for US WEST (market research) and Hughes Aircraft Company (commercial satellite design).

Mr. Luening has a Bachelors of Science in Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University, a Masters of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

 
Mark Schulz VP, Wireless Technologies.
Mark Schulz is currently an independent consultant with over 25 years of experience in the wireless communications industry. As a consultant, he provides technical due diligence to the Venture Capital community and independent research for the evaluation of new and innovative technologies.
Prior to consulting, Mr. Schulz was Director of Advanced Technology with Vodafone (previously AirTouch Communications) in Walnut Creek, California. At Vodafone, his responsibilities included the evaluation of new technologies for wireless applications and providing strategic guidance to executive management for potential investment and/or network implementation. As part of the technology evaluation process, he developed detailed network business economic models including traffic modeling, radio coverage and capacity dimensioning.

Prior to joining Vodafone, Mr. Schulz spent 12 years in the aerospace industry with Space Systems Loral, Lockheed Missiles and Space, Martin Marietta, and Hughes Aircraft. His responsibilities included antenna design, communication systems analysis and electromagnetic scattering analysis.
Mr. Schulz received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.

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