Top 5 Wireless Executives to Watch in 2009

Top 5 Wireless Executives to Watch in 2009:

• Ben Wolff, CEO of Clearwire [1]
• Julius Genachowski, reported FCC Chairman-designate [2]
• Lee Williams, the executive director of the Symbian Foundation [3]
• Peter Chou, CEO of HTC [4]
• Sanjay Jha, Co-CEO of Motorola [5]

Today's current economic climate is extremely challenging for any wireless executive, particularly those that are tasked with building out a new nationwide network, turning around a struggling company or heading up a government agency that has numerous controversial initiatives hanging in limbo.  

We considered all these factors and more when we made our selection of the top five wireless executives to watch in 2009. Clearly there are many wireless executives doing great things in tough times. But we think these five people will have to make some particularly tough decisions in the coming year that will have a long-lasting impact on the companies and agencies that they run as well as the entire wireless industry.

As always, your feedback is encouraged and appreciated. Please keep in mind that FierceWireless primarily covers the U.S. wireless industry so our selections are U.S.-based wireless executives. -Sue [6]

Update: See where these executives are at the start of 2010 [7].