Executive

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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.

As a recognized thought leader with 35+ years in the ICT industry, Pecen has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, Cybersecurity Magazine and others, and is the author and editor of numerous articles, papers and books.  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.

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 deep-tech fund. He also serves as an advisor to the Canadian government and European Union in the areas of ICT research and technology standardisation.

Pecen also served 5 years as chairman and founding member of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) Technical Committee Cyber working group for Quantum Safe Cryptography (Cyber QSC) in Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE and remains active in the ETSI community in radio frequency and quantum technologies.  He also recently served as president of Quantum Valley Ideas Labs, a Canadian research centre focused on quantum sensor technology.

Pecen served as Senior V.P. R&D at BlackBerry, Ltd. where he founded the Advanced Technology Research Centre.  At Motorola, he was awarded the title of Distinguished Innovator and Science Advisory Board member for his role in developing technology and standards for wireless communication. 

[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] (Book chapter & guest editor – Pecen), Adibi, Mobasher, et. Al., Fourth Generation Wireless Networks, (Information Science Reference, Hershey, New York, 2010), ISBN 978-1-61520-674-2

[8] Shirook M. Ali, Wen Geyi, Qinjiang Rao, Mark Pecen, Numberical 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