Sheldon Gilbert

Who is Sheldon Gilbert?

Sheldon Gilbert has over 20 years of executive management experience in the

communications and semiconductor industries. Sheldon has helped found

and has been an early key team member atfour venture-backed start-ups

and holds more than 12 patents in various aspects of wired and wireless

communications. Most recently, Sheldon founded Ensemble

Communications, which with over 250 employees around the world, was a

founding member of WiMAX, a key contributor of technology to that

standard, and a leading developer of broadband wireless and LMDS

equipment. Prior to that, Sheldon was responsible for the development

of one of the earliest smart-antenna wireless systems, which has been

deployed at over 100,000 sites throughout Japan’s PHS system. He

graduated with a BSEE from the University of Illinois, Urbana and an

MSEE from MIT.