Geoff Walker's Biography & Resume

Geoff Walker is a recognized touch-technology expert with 20+ years of experience in touch. Geoff is currently Principal Analyst for Touch Research at IMS Research, a leading independent provider of market research and consulting to the global electronics industry. Geoff is also the Owner and Principal Consultant at Walker Mobile, providing consulting services on touch technology, active digitizers, mobile displays & enhancements and mobile computers. Currently all Walker Mobile consulting services are delivered through IMS Research.

A mobile-computing industry pioneer, Geoff worked on the first laptop at startup GRiD Systems in 1982 and the first pen & touch tablet in 1989. Geoff served as product architect and VP of Marketing at startup Fujitsu Personal Systems, where he architected all of Fujitsu’s pen & touch tablet products from 1993-1999. Geoff worked on startup Handspring's first color PDA and the predecessor of the Treo smartphone. After Handspring, Geoff ran his own consulting firm (Walker Mobile, LLC) full-time for seven years, focusing on touchscreens, mobile displays and mobile computers. During that time Geoff also served as the Guest Editor for Touch of SID's Information Display magazine (2007), the Associate Editor of the Veritas et Visus series of display-industry newsletters (2005-2007), and the Technology Editor of Pen Computing magazine (2001-2007). At the end of 2007, Geoff returned to industry to become the Global Director of Product Management and Business Development for Elo TouchSystems, a business unit of Tyco Electronics. Most recently, Geoff was the Marketing Evangelist & Touch-Industry Guru at NextWindow, the leading supplier of optical touchscreens used in Windows-7 touch monitors and all-in-one touch computers. Geoff has published more than 100 feature articles, conference presentations, tutorials, news stories, blog entries, and white papers on touch screens, displays and mobile computers, most of which are available on the Published Material page of the Walker Mobile website. Geoff holds BS-Electrical Engineering and BS-English degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and is an active member of the Society for Information Display (SID).

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