Geoff Walker's Biography

Geoff Walker is currently the Marketing Evangelist & Industry Guru at NextWindow, the leading supplier of optical touchscreens used in Windows-7 touch monitors and all-in-one touch computers.  A mobile-computing industry pioneer, Geoff was an early employee 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 startup Fujitsu Personal Systems, where he led the creation of all of Fujitsu’s pen-tablet products from 1993 to 1999.  Geoff was an early employee at Handspring, where he worked on Handspring's first color PDA and the predecessor of the Treo smartphone.  After Handspring, Geoff ran his own consulting firm (Walker Mobile, LLC) for seven years, focusing on touch screens, mobile displays and mobile computers.  During that time Geoff also served as the Technology Editor of Pen Computing magazine (2001-2007), the Associate Editor of the Veritas et Visus series of display-industry newsletters (2005-2007), and the Guest Editor for Touch of SID's Information Display magazine (2007, and then again in 2010).  Geoff returned to industry as the Director of Global Product Management for Elo TouchSystems at the end of 2007, then moved to NextWindow in the middle of 2009. Geoff holds BS-Electrical Engineering and BS-English degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and has completed the coursework for an MBA in Marketing from New York University's Graduate School of Business.

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