Zaffer Merchant

Zaffer has over 30 years of experience building cross-functional teams to create Platforms, including HW/Chipsets, SW, Applications/Services and UI framework as the foundation for Product Realization. He was the Director Handset Engineering at Nextel International for five years where he successfully led the engineering teams to develop and launch Nextel’s next generation high-performance mobile devices. Prior at Motorola Inc for 26 years he successfully delivered solutions based on Windows Mobile and Android OS built on chipsets from Motorola, Qualcomm, TI and Intel. He is a Motorola Fellow and Distinguished Innovator with 22 US Patents.