Walt Davis is a consultant in the areas of Technology Strategy, Patent Strategy, and the Productization of New Technologies. Walt retired from Motorola as a Senior Vice President after 39 years of service with the company. At Motorola, he worked in a number of positions Involved with the development of portable radio communications equipment and VLSI Integrated Circuits for Communications applications. 

At Motorola, he helped develop the first custom integrated circuits used in commercial radio communications equipment. He later contributed to the technical development of several generations of paging products. He also led the team that developed Motorola’s first CMOS Microprocessor. 

He subsequently transferred to Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector as a senior strategist, and then moved to Motorola Labs where he was responsible for technology development in the areas of: Human Factors, Imaging Systems, Security, Systems Architectures, Computing Architectures and Ultra Wide Band RF Systems.

From 2008 to 2010 Walt was a Managing Director of Galvin Energy LLC where he helped develop a preliminary design for a pebble-bed nuclear power plant. Walt has also served on the Board of Directors of Comnetix, Inc of Canada, and Certicom Corp, a Canadian company focused on cryptographic security.

Walt received his BSEE and MSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1963 and 1964 respectively.  He was a member of Motorola’s Technology Policy and Science Advisory Boards, and is a Motorola Dan Noble Fellow.  He holds over one hundred issued U.S. patents and 250 world-wide patents in the fields of semiconductor and communications technology.