Geoff Walker's Biography

Geoff Walker is a consultant and writer specializing in touch screens & active digitizers, displays & enhancements, and mobile computers. An industry pioneer, Geoff was employee #49 at GRiD Systems, where he worked on the first laptop in 1982 and the first pen tablet in 1989. Geoff served as product architect and VP of Marketing at Fujitsu Personal Systems, where he created all of Fujitsu’s pen tablet products from 1993-1999. Geoff was was employee #30 at Handspring, where he worked on the Visor Prism (Handspring's first color PDA) and the VisorPhone (the predecessor of the Treo smartphone). Geoff started Walker Mobile, LLC in January 2001, offering consulting on strategic and tactical marketing topics to companies engaged in developing or marketing products in the above technology areas. Geoff has also served as the Technology Editor of Pen Computing magazine since 2001, the Associate Editor of the Veritas et Visus series of display-industry newsletters since 2005, and the Guest Editor for Touch of SID's Information Display magazine since 2007. Geoff holds BS-Electrical Engineering and BS-English degrees from Polytechnic University of New York (formerly Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn), and has completed the coursework for an MBA in Marketing from New York University.

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