Phil McKinney
American businessman
Phil McKinney is an American businessman who is CEO of CableLabs. McKinney was CTO of Hewlett-Packard's Personal Systems Group. He is an author and hosts a podcast.
Career
McKinney became product development manager for the software division at Prentice Hall publishing in 1982.
Later he became director of product development for ThumbScan in 1988. ThumbScan was a key based device that allowed only authorized users to log into encrypted data on a computer. In 1990, McKinney became president of Tereplex. He led the Tereplex agreement with Atmel to license the Minimum Instruction Set Computer (MISC) technology. From 1991 until 1996 he was a senior executive for the Communication Industry consulting practice at Computer Sciences. In 1997, McKinney went to work at Teligent.
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