Earl Lum

EJL Wireless Research is managed by Earl Lum, who has 18 years of experience within the wireless industry. Prior to starting this venture, Lum was managing director/Wireless Technology Equity Research Sector for Montgomery & Co.

Before joining Montgomery & Co., Lum spent seven years as executive director/Wireless Technology Equity Research Group at CIBC World Markets. His team pioneered the methodology of supply-chain analysis for equity research within the wireless sector. Lum also established core research areas focusing on compound semiconductor technologies including GaAs, SiGe, InP, SiC and GaN.

Prior to joining Wall Street, Lum served as senior research analyst at Gartner Group/Dataquest, where he established the wireless semiconductor research platform and pioneered research in the emerging GaAs compound semiconductor market. He also worked as senior RF design engineer at Tyco Electronics M/A-Com, RF transistor R&D engineering manager at Spectrian Corporation and product engineer at National Semiconductor Corporation. Lum holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.