Sheryl M. Genco

Ericsson Vice President of Advanced Technology Group

Ericsson

Santa Clara

Sheryl M. Genco is Vice President of Advanced Technology Group within Ericsson’s CTO’s office in Santa Clara, CA, and serves on the Executive Committee of the National Spectrum Consortium. Dr. Genco was also a member of the Senior Executive Service for the Department of Commerce where she was the laboratory director for NTIA’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences. Her contributions have been at the forefront of critical technology areas impacting federal and commercial programs including spectrum efficiency, sharing, and auctions, 5G and broadband, satellite communications, unmanned aviation systems, and radio sciences.

Career overview

Dr. Sheryl M. Genco has over 30 years of experience in engineering and management at a wide range of organizations spanning large industrial, entrepreneurial ventures and the Government sector (NTIA, NIST). As Vice President for Ericsson, she spearheads activities with industry and the U.S. government, innovating and collaborating, to exploit 5G and ultimately 6G for increased security and economic benefits. Her career has focused on the development of new technologies with emphasis on transforming state-of-thepossible ideas into commercial reality. While at NIST and NTIA, Dr. Genco was a strong advocate for spectrum policy guided by rigorous data analysis. Prior to joining NTIA, Dr. Genco was the engineering director at Honeywell Quantum Solutions, where she led an organization developing trapped ion quantum computers. At NIST, she led the NationalAdvanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network, managing programs in the areas of wireless communications (LTE), 3.5GHz, GPS, and AWS-3. Dr. Genco is an IEEE Senior Member and received Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in electrical engineering. Dr. Genco delivers exceptional results through collaboration and technology. An example of this is the 5G Challenge she developed between NTIAand DoD. While at NIST, Dr. Genco and her team won the prestigious Department of Commerce Gold Medal after a program to measure and analyze GPS out-of-band effects in the presence of LTE.