Dr. Sheryl Genco, Ph.D. - Chief Technology Officer, Advanced Technology Group, Ericsson NA - Spectrum, Quantum & Future Defense Technologies

Dr. Sheryl Genco, Ph.D. ( https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/contributors/q-t/dr-sheryl-genco ) is Chief Technology Officer of the Advanced Technology Group at Ericsson, one of the world’s largest and oldest telecommunications infrastructure companies that is involved in building the equipment, software, and services that make mobile networks work.

Dr. Genco has over 30 years of experience in engineering and management at organizations spanning industrial, entrepreneurial ventures and the public sector. 

At Ericsson, Dr. Genco spearheads activities with industry and the U.S. government to exploit 5G and 6G for increased security and economic benefits. Her career has focused on developing technologies with an emphasis on transforming state-of-the-possible ideas into commercial reality. 

Dr. Genco has also served as a senior advisor to the Defense Innovation Board ( https://stib.cto.mil/ ), a senior consultant to DARPA ( https://www.darpa.mil/ ) Commercialization Strategy, and on the Executive Board of CO-Labs ( https://www.co-labs.org/ ), a non-profit consortium of federal research laboratories & institutions, universities, colleges, businesses and economic development organizations that provide financial and in-kind support for programs that promote the retention and expansion of Colorado's scientific resources. 

Dr. Genco was previously a member of the Senior Executive Service for the Department of Commerce where she was laboratory director for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ( NTIA - https://www.ntia.gov/ ) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences. 

Before NTIA, Dr. Genco was engineering director at Honeywell Quantum Solutions, where she led an organization developing trapped ion quantum computers. She also served at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST - https://www.nist.gov/ ), where she led the National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network, managing programs in wireless communications (LTE), 3.5GHz, GPS, and AWS-3. 

Dr. Genco is an IEEE Senior Member, IEEE MILCOM VIP Chair, and received a Ph.D. (University of Colorado at Boulder), M.S. (Syracuse), and B.S. (Northeastern) degrees in electrical engineering.  

Dr. Genco is passionate about enabling socio-economic prosperity through STEM education. She founded a STEM-focused K-8 public school that has won multiple awards and has educated more than 20,000 students over two decades of operation. She was also one of the founders of NSC’s Women in Spectrum Scholarship ( https://www.nationalspectrumconsortium.org/women-in-spectrum-scholarship-winners ). 

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