Company: IDCC
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-097149
Chunk: 23

Company: InterDigital, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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'>**PROPOSALS TO BE VOTED ON

Election of Directors

(Proposal 1)**</div>

**Description

Which directors are nominated for election?

Mses. Joan H. Gillman and Jean F. Rankin, Messrs. Samir Armaly, Derek K. Aberle, Liren Chen, S. Douglas Hutcheson, John A. Kritzmacher and John D. Markley, Jr. are recommended by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and nominated by the Board for election at the 2025 annual meeting, each to serve a one-year term until our annual meeting in 2026 and until his or her successor is elected and qualified.

Set forth below is biographical information about the eight nominees and other information about their skills and qualifications that contribute to the effectiveness of the Board. All of the nominees’ current terms of office expire at the 2025 annual meeting.

What are their backgrounds?

Derek Aberle, 55, has been a director of the company since September 2022. Mr. Aberle is Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman of Virewirx, Inc. (formerly XCOM Labs), a company focused on developing and commercializing advanced wireless and XR technologies. Prior to that, from 2000 through 2018, Mr. Aberle served in various senior executive roles at Qualcomm, including as President of Qualcomm from 2014 through 2018. Beginning in 2008, Mr. Aberle served as a member of Qualcomm’s executive committee, as Executive Vice President and President of Qualcomm Technology Licensing from 2008 through 2011 and as Executive Vice President and Group President from 2011 through 2014 where, among other things, he led Qualcomm’s technology and IP licensing business, helping to significantly grow its global licensing business and negotiating deals with its largest licensees. Mr. Aberle also served as Chief Executive Officer and director of Prospector Capital Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, from its inception in 2020 through 2023. Prior to Qualcomm, Mr. Aberle was an attorney with the international law firms Pillsbury Winthrop and Heller Ehrman. Mr. Aberle also serves on the boards of directors of Virewirx, LeddarTech (Nasdaq: LDTC) and EvoNexus. The Board has concluded that Mr. Aberle should serve as a director of the company because of his years of experience in patent licensing and his global business acumen and leadership