VP Candidate: Patrick Lau
Vice President of Strategic Development Name: Patrick Lau Office Sought: Vice President Patrick Lau Bio: Patrick Lau is VP of Strategic Development, for Comba Telecom, Inc.’s North America region. In this position, Patrick is responsible for developing sales opportunities between engineering, project management and sales teams and qualifying new in-building opportunities with and enterprise customers. Patrick has 20 plus years of experience in the RF telecommunications field. Prior to joining Comba Telecom, Patrick worked in various engineering and business development roles for Commscope, Allen Telecom, Allgon and Andrew Corporation related to Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) and Small Cells. Patrick earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Akron (Ohio). Additionally, Lau serves as an active board member of the Safer Buildings Coalition and HetNet Forum Council of Founders. He also routinely speaks at industry events including Mobile World Congress (MWC), IWCE, WIA (Wireless Infrastructure Show), ACUTA, SEAT, DASpedia, DAS Congress and others. Patrick Lau Statement to Members: For the last year I have tremendous honor to serve as a board member at the Safer Buildings Coalition. I have witnessed in first-hand the amount of impact SBC has on the public safety sectors, local AHJ and FirstNet. The SBC mission is to focus on advancing policies and ideas that lead to more buildings being served with commercial and public safety wireless coverage. We made education outreach a priority for our members. Last year SBC has coordinated and conducted for more than 40 training sessions to local AHJs with the help of our members. We also made priorities on Code Development and defining technical requirements for future FirstNet deployment. A lot of work has been done, and it will take a lot more to continue these initiatives. If I am fortunate enough to be able to serve as your Vice President, I will devote my attention and work with all our members to help SBC advance these initiatives, alongside with the rest of the Board of Directors. I am proud to be part of this organization. Thank you for your attention. Regards, |
