University of Southern California

Beau Atwater

Beau is head of strategy and business intelligence in the support solutions business unit. His key responsibility is aligning business unit market and solution strategy with global communications trends. This has resulted in new innovative market strategies and novel product and solution offers.

Prior to this Beau was Vice President of Marketing for Telcordia Global Solutions. Beau has had an extensive career in research and development, ranging from developing new IP-enabled services to inventing environmental sensors for indoor air quality. Prior to Telcordia Beau was a principal scientist at the BOC Group Research Labs developing novel biomedical sensors, resulting in three patents. Beau received his B. Sci. from the University of Nebraska in Chemistry, his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in Organic Chemistry, and pursued post-doctoral research at Florida State University in Photochemistry. Beau is a member of both the American Chemical Society and IEEE. In 1998 Beau was chosen by the National Academy of Engineering as one of the top 100 young engineers. Beau is an avid marathoner and has completed the past 6 Boston marathons.