Federated Wireless’ Iyad Tarazi Named “CEO of the Year” in 2020 Mobile Breakthrough Awards Program
Summary
“Iyad is a visionary technologist with in-depth knowledge and a love for recognizing and predicting industry trends, with the ability to deliver on that vision with clear business models and go-to-market strategy,” said James Johnson, managing director, Mobile Breakthrough. CBRS is deployed across MNOs, MSOs and WISPs, improving their networks and enabling new private wireless capabilities for enterprises in a wide range of industries. Federated Wireless was founded in 2012 by scientists from Virginia Tech who were convinced that they could apply machine learning and artificial intelligence to the complex problem of how to share spectrum. Over a six-year period, Iyad and his team have worked closely with the FCC, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the NTIA and built the CBRS ecosystem. Federated Wireless’ customer base includes companies spanning the telecommunications, energy, hospitality, education, retail, office space, municipal and residential verticals, with use cases ranging from network densification and mobile offload to Private 4G/5G and Industrial IoT.