Howard Buzick

Senior Vice President Business Development at American Bandwith

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Howard Buzick is co-founder and SVP Business Development for American Bandwidth. He builds relationships with mobile operators, network solution providers, and other partners to enable seamless and secure indoor coverage using the Passpoint^® standard from the Wi-Fi Alliance. He is keenly interested in public safety, and sees economically viable indoor connectivity as a key initiative to keep people safe indoors. He represents American Bandwidth at industry conferences including Wireless Global Congress, Wi-Fi World Congress, #WLPC, Mobile World Congress, among others, and is an active member of the WBA, the WFA and Wi-Fi Now.

Howard has over 25 years of experience working in the wireless industry and has been focused on enabling cellular and Wi-Fi convergence since 2009. As VP Business Development for Boingo Wireless, he was part of the leadership team that launched and deployed the first-ever Passpoint Wi-Fi network at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. He was instrumental in expanding the Passpoint technology to every global airport where Boingo managed the Wi-Fi network including Dubai, New York’s JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark airports, and London’s Gatwick, and other leading airports.

Howard has worked with leading technology and telecom companies including Global IP Solutions (acquired by Google), Adobe, Keynote Systems, Qualys, and Birdstep Technologies. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese from San Jose State University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He also holds a Certificate in Japanese Language and Culture from Waseda University.

Howard is passionate about a converged future for cellular, Wi-Fi and satellite technologies, and is working with these ecosystems to achieve seamless, fast and secure connectivity everywhere.