Craig Ehrlich is an American private investor and entrepreneur, the former head of the GSM Association, a trade organization which represents 800 mobile operators in 220 countries.
16 Facts About Craig Ehrlich
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Craig Ehrlich graduated with a BA in political science from UCLA in 1978, and went on to earn a master's degree in urban studies at Occidental College and a postgraduate fellowship in public affairs from the Coro Foundation.
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In 1980, Craig Ehrlich was hired at Falcon Communications as the assistant to Falcon's founder and chairman, Marc Nathanson.
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Craig Ehrlich worked closely with Nathanson to build Falcon, and gained experience in key areas of the company's operation.
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Craig Ehrlich moved to Hong Kong in 1987, after he was recruited to head Hutchison Cablevision, a subsidiary of Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa conglomerate.
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Craig Ehrlich worked closely with Li as a founding member of the team that launched STAR, which was purchased by Rupert Murdoch for $871 million in 1993.
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Craig Ehrlich moved from Hutchison Cable to the telecom arm of the Hutchison Group in 1991; as group operations director, he was responsible for the company's operations in 10 countries in Europe and Asia.
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Craig Ehrlich left the Hutchison Group in 1994 to become a private investor.
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Craig Ehrlich sold the company in 1996, and shortly thereafter was recruited to develop and launch a new Hong Kong mobile phone service, SUNDAY.
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Craig Ehrlich retired from SUNDAY in 2003, and returned to private investment and entrepreneurship.
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From 2002, when there were less than 1,000,000 mobile subscribers, through 2008, when there more than 4 billion, Craig Ehrlich served as the chairman of the GSM Association.
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Craig Ehrlich is credited with restructuring GSMA from a Euro-centric standards body to a powerful global trade association.
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Craig Ehrlich served as the chairman of the UCLA Foundation beginning in July 2020.
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Since 2015, Craig Ehrlich has been on the Executive Committee of the UCLA Foundation.
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Craig Ehrlich has a daughter, Leah, who was born in 2005.
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Craig Ehrlich and maintain homes in Manila and Santa Monica, California.