NextWave Wireless Inc.

James C. Brailean, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer and President

Dr. James Brailean is Chief Executive Officer and President of NextWave Mobile Products, and a member of NextWave's Board of Directors. Dr. Brailean was co-founder of PacketVideo and served as its Chief Executive Officer prior to NextWave's corporate realignment.

Inspired by a vision of powerful multimedia devices enabling new forms of mobile person-to-person communications, Brailean founded PacketVideo in 1998. Under Dr. Brailean's leadership, PacketVideo launched the world's first commercial end-to-end wireless mobilemedia delivery platform in 2000, and helped create a new industry for wireless multimedia communications. Now focused on software development for multimedia device innovation, PacketVideo has become the number one supplier of embedded multimedia solutions for mobile phones and other devices in the world.

A scientist who led the development of the MPEG-4 standards for transmission of video and audio over wireless networks, Dr. Brailean holds 16 key U.S. patents that enable advanced multimedia communications. From 1993 to 1998, he served as the chairman of the Error Resilience Video Compression Ad Hoc Group within MPEG-4.

Prior to co-founding PacketVideo in 1998, Dr. Brailean was a principal staff engineer within Motorola Corporate Research and Development Laboratories in Chicago where he managed the Advanced Video Algorithm Group, responsible for the design and development of advanced video compression and imaging algorithms. He was also a communication system engineer for Hughes Aircraft, Space and Communications Group.

Dr. Brailean received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Northwestern University. He holds a Master's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.