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Mr. Eschenbach is also the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Trimble Navigation Ltd.
He has held this position since 1994.
Before that he was Vice President of Avionics.
He joined Trimble in 1983 as Vice President of Engineering.
Before joining Trimble he was Department Manager at Hewlett Packard labs, responsible for research in several areas of communication protocols and systems.
It was at HP that he developed the first working GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver in 1976 that demonstrated the potential for addressing a low cost market for a positioning sensor.
That receiver became the basis for Trimble's entry into the GPS market.
He has authored more than thirty papers on GPS receiver's design and testing.
About a dozen of his ideas have been patented.
He has provided the technical and managerial leadership for five generations of receiver development.
In 1987 he won the Institute of Navigation's "Better Mousetrap Award" for innovation in GPS receiver design.
In 1991 he won Discover Magazine's award for "Innovation in Computers and Technology".
Mr. Eschenbach received his BSEE from UC Berkeley in 1968 and MSEE from Stanford University in 1970.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
He studied one year at the University of Goettingen in Germany and speaks fluent German and conversational Spanish.
He is on the Board of Directors of PinPoint Golf Marketing, Lionhearth Technologies, Adhere Technologies, Waveband, and Telemonitor.
Eerdere bekende functies van Ralph Eschenback
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GKM Management LLC
GKM Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance GKM Management LLC is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of First Western Financial, Inc. founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | Private Equity Investor | 31-12-2007 |
TRIMBLE, INC. | Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer | - |
Opleiding van Ralph Eschenback
Stanford University | Graduate Degree |
University of California, Berkeley | Undergraduate Degree |
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