Dr Manolis Frantzeskakis has a multi-decade experience in the wireless communications and the semiconductor industries. He has served in various technical, managerial and executive roles. He has been instrumental on the development and launching of the first Fixed Wireless Access products in Intracom Telecom, Greece. He has founded Hermes Technologies SA that made the world-first demonstration of Wi-Fi beamforming technology in 2003, a company that was merged with Athena Semiconductors SA in 2004 and subsequently acquired by Broadcom. In Broadcom, he has contributed to the development and productization of numerous RF IC products in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, FM/DAB and NFC markets, among which the world’s first BLE IC. He is the founding CEO of Argo Semiconductors SA, a company developing and marketing active antenna technology for 5G sub-6GHz systems, also selected to be funded by the European Innovator Council (EIC) Accelerator fund in July 2024. Dr. Frantzeskakis holds a BS degree on Information Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras and a PhD degree on Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of many academic journal and conference papers, as well as the inventor of more than ten patents.