David K. Bain is Vice President of Standards for the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), leading TIA’s team of standards development professionals with responsibility for more than 2,400 technical specialists maintaining approximately 3,600 technology standards (including the 942 datacenter standard and the 222 macro-tower standard) used in over 100 countries. David serves as a member of the ANSI US National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the CXO Forum of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
David’s team also oversees standards committees for satellite communications, emergency responder land mobile radio (LMR), and 6 of the US Secretariats of IEC Committees, and Subcommittee 25 of JTC1, the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee for information technology. Mr. Bain is the convener of the 23rd Global Standards Collaboration (GSC-23), a meeting of the world’s leading ICT standard developing organizations in 2021. He is the former CEO of TM Technologies, a wireless communications research company which was acquired by ComSovereign. During his 25+ years as an entrepreneur in the telecom industry he supported and partnered with organizations including AT&T, Intelsat, Iridium, Motorola, Nokia, Telenor, Sprint, the US State Department and FCC, and the World Bank. Author of two telecom industry investment market surveys, industry patents, and hundreds of articles, he is a frequent speaker at universities and tech conferences on standards and emerging technologies and their impact on society.
