Bill Merritt

WILLIAM J. MERRITT is InterDigital’s President and Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to becoming President and Chief Executive Officer in 2005, Mr. Merritt played a key role in building a program of licensing InterDigital’s intellectual property and overseeing the growth in its patent licensing business, serving as General Patent Counsel from 2001 to 2005. Prior to joining InterDigital in 1996, he served as Assistant General Counsel with the Long Island Lighting Company in Hicksville, NY. Earlier on, Mr. Merritt had concentrated his engineering efforts with Public Service Electric and Gas Company and Stone &a; Webster. Mr. Merritt earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Juris Doctorate from Temple University.