Kirk Kirkpatrick

Kirk Kirkpatrick

Infobox Person
name = Kirk Kirkpatrick


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birth_date = birth date and age|1960|12|30
birth_place = U.S.
occupation = CEO, MDS America
networth =
spouse = Zhe Kirkpatrick
website =
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Harold W. "Kirk" Kirkpatrick (born Dec 30, 1960) is the founder and CEO of MDS America Inc. Corporation, and CEO and controlling owner of MDS Operations, an Internet operations company that owns the rights to MVDDS in 80 of 214 Nielsen TV DMA's (Designated Market areas.) [ [http://www.mdsamerica.com/ MDS America Inc Homepage] ] [ [http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA378513.html?display=Top+Stories/ MultiChannel News] ]

Information Systems

Mr. Kirkpatrick started in the Information Systems Division of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty where he programmed client-server systems and built networks spanning Europe and countries of Central Asia and the Ex-Soviet Union, connecting them into the newly expanding Internet. At this time he also programmed one of the first AppleEvent aware programs, MacConference, in 1994. [ [http://www.applefritter.com/node/14983 RFE/RL & MacConference] ]

Internet

In 1994 Mr. Kirkpatrick took the first position of Manager of Information Systems for the Public Data Network (PDN) of Kuwait [ [http://web.archive.org/web/19970105135939/http://www.moc.kw/ Kuwait MOC (old)] ] , bringing the Internet to Kuwait and gaining a reputation as an Internet expert in the Persian Gulf countries. Mr. Kirkpatrick has spoken on Internet related topics in the United States, [ [http://www.wcai.com/event/02speakers3.htm/ WCAI Speakers List] ] Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates.

United States and MDS America

In 2000, he founded MDS America with Peter Blond with backing from His Excellency Shiekh Ali Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah (Former Minister of Finance and Former Minister of Petroleum for the State of Kuwait) [ [http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Kuwait/kuwait8.htm/ Kuwait Royal Family] ] , targeting rural customers for high speed broadband. [ [http://www.isp-planet.com/fixed_wireless/business/2002/mds.html/ ISP-planet article] ]
As the head of MDSA, Kirkpatrick successfully lobbied the Federal Communications Commission (Docket 98-206) and the United States Congress to allow the auction of the MVDDS band of Radio Frequency spectrum. He led MDS Operations through two FCC Spectrum auctions purchasing the licenses for MVDDS at a lower cost per household than any other major bidder in the auction. [ [http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/default.htm?job=auction_summary&id=53/ FCC Auction 63] ] [ [http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/default.htm?job=auction_summary&id=63/ FCC Auction 53] ]

When MDSA was sued for Patent infringment by Northpoint Technology Ltd., Kirkpatrick's testimony led to the invalidation of both asserted patents in the case. [ [http://fedcir.gov/opinions/04-1249.pdf/ Appeals Court Decision] ]

Mr. Kirkpatrick has lived in Belgium, Germany, Kuwait, Egypt, Israel, and the United States. He speaks English and German fluently, and French, Dutch, Arabic, and Chinese (Putonghua) at varying levels. He is married to the former Feng Zhe (Amy) of Shanghai, China.

Mr. Kirkpatrick is a current member of both Mensa and the Triple Nine Society. [cite web| last= |first= |title=Kirk Kirkpatrick Personal Homepage |work= |accessdate= 2007-10-22 |url= http://www.amyandkirk.com/Stuart%20Kirkpatricks/Kirk.html]

ee also

*MDS America
*Mensa
*Triple Nine Society

References

External links

* [http://www.mdsamerica.com/ MDS America Inc Homepage]
* [http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=772&wit_id=2128/ MVDDS Senate Testimony]


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