(Marconi Society: Mountain View, CA) -- Robert W. Galvin, former chairman of Motorola, will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Marconi Society for his historic and lifelong impact on worldwide telecommunications. The award will be presented at the Society’s annual awards gala in La Jolla, California, on Sept. 8, 2011.

Galvin, a household name in telecommunication circles during the 1980s and 1990s, is considered by many to be the most important and influential business leader to keep the United States competitive in the emerging cellular telephone and semiconductor industries during the 1970s through 1990s.

Galvin worked at Motorola, founded by his father as a car radio company, most of his life, and served as chairman for approximately three decades. During that time he made Motorola a global telecommunications equipment leader for both consumer and public-safety sectors, and championed the first commercial cellular phone technology both at the base station and handset.

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