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Mark PECEN

MARK PECEN is a senior technology executive and head of a specialised technology advisory group, Approach Infinity, Inc., with a focus on research, standardisation, intellectual property and commercialisation of advanced technologies.


A recognized thought leader with 35+ years in the ICT industry, Pecen has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, Daily Telegraph, Cybersecurity Magazine and others, and is the author of numerous articles, papers and book chapters.  He is a pioneer in wireless technology and inventor on more than 100 fundamental patents in wireless communication, networking and computing, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.


He was awarded the titles of Distinguished Innovator and Science Advisory Board member by Motorola for his foundational research and standardization work on GSM, GPRS and EDGE cellular technologies at the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) in France during the 1990s.


He continued to lead work in 3GPP for Motorola on UMTS 3G cellular technology until 2005.  Then, as Senior Vice President, R&D for BlackBerry, he and his division contributed substantially to the work in 3GPP on 4G-LTE cellular technology and standards as well as critical wireless spectrum management in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva.


In 2015, Pecen co-founded the ETSI Technical Committee Cyber, Working Group for Quantum Safe Cryptography (TC Cyber WG QSC) and served as Chair for the first 5 years of its existence, producing some of the very earliest global standards on the topic.  He further served as Chair of the Canadian government’s task force on GDPR and served as president and executive advisor for Quantum Valley Ideas Lab in Canada, focusing on quantum radio frequency sensors using Rydberg atoms.


Pecen has served on over 20 advisory and governance boards for public and private companies over the years, including the University of Waterloo (CANADA) Institute for Quantum Computing, and Wilfred Laurier University Institute for Business and Economics (CANADA). He is an investor and advisor to several technology companies and venture funds, and is a general partner of a Canadian venture fund.

Récent Publications

  1. C. Bontu, Shalini Periyalwar, Mark Pecen , Wireless Wide Area Network Of Things, Presented at WWRF 31, October 21-24,  2013, Vancouver, B.C., Canada; IEEE Vehicular Technology Journal, March 2014
  2. C. Bontu, J. Ghimire, S. Periyalwar, M. Pecen, Asynchronous Simultaneous Small Packet Transmission in Cellular Wireless Systems, Global Wireless Summit 2013, Atlantic City, N. J., USA
  3. Pecen, Mark, Real Option Theory - managing uncertainty in the innovation process, Wharton School of Business, invited lecture, July 2013
  4. Amir Danak , Shirook M.H. Ali, James Warden, Mark Pecen, An Analytical Approach to Impedance Matching in Tunable RF Front-Ends, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2013
  5. Pecen, M.; Warden, J.; Ali, S.M.; and Danak, A., Methods and apparatus for dynamic complex impedance matching to time-varying radio frequency load, US Patent filing, Jan 2013
  6. Pecen M., Warden J, Ali, S, Method and apparatus for tuneable antenna using parasitic element, U.S. Patent filing, October 2013
  7. Fourth Generation Wireless Networks, (Book chapter & guest editor – Pecen), Adibi, Mobasher, et. Al., (Information Science Reference, Hershey, New York, 2010), ISBN 978-1-61520-674-2
  8. Shirook M. Ali, Wen Geyi, Qinjiang Rao, Mark Pecen, Numerical Calculations of the Information Capacity of a Transmitting Antenna, IEEE Antennas and Propagation, 2010
  9. Pecen et al., Quantum Safe Cryptography and Security; An introduction, benefits, enablers and challenges, (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, ISBN 979-10-92620-03-0), October 2014
  10. Pecen et al., “A challenge to encryption”, (The Cipher Brief), February 28, 2016
  11. Pecen M., Quantum computing overview and the state of the art of quantum-safe cryptography, (Cryptographic Module Conference; Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA), May 18, 2016
  12. « Securité et cryptographie en monde quantique : Rapport de Groupe - European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) Technical Committee Cyber Working group for Quantum Safe Cryptography (WG-QSC) », (Pecen, M., European Telecommunication Standards Institute), April 2017
  13. "Progess on published standards of the ETSI Working Group for Quantum-Safe Cryptography", (Mark Pecen, ETSI), 2019
  14. "Quantum Computing and Impacts on Secure Communication" , (Keynote address to the Critical Communications Society conference; Madrid, Spain), 2021
  15. "How to protect intellectual property in the age of AI", (Mark Pecen, Scott Snyder; Wharton School of Business Magazine), March 2024: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-to-protect-intellectual-property-in-the-age-of-ai/
  16. "What the technology executive should know about patent protection in the age of AI", (Mark Pecen; ETSI Tutorial), March 2024

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