T. Russell Shields

T. Russell Shields

Russ Shields is former CEO of Navigation Technologies (later NAVTEQ, now HERE), and former leader of other automotive and communications enterprises. Mr. Shields has been involved in communications standards bodies for more than 40 years. He is Chair of the Collaboration on ITS Communication Standards of the ITU and an ITU representation to the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations where he is Co-Secretary of the Task Force on Vehicular Communications, the AI Informal Working Group, and the Advanced Emergency Breaking Systems Informal Working Group. Mr. Shields is an SAE Fellow and a recipient of the SAE Delco Electronics ITS Award. He was inducted into the inaugural class of ITS America’s ITS Hall of Fame in 2008 and was named the inaugural U.S. member of the ITS World Congress Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2019, Mr. Shields was named an inaugural member of the FISITA Academy of Technical Leadership. He was a member of the NASA National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Advisory Board; Mr. Shields has received the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Distinguished Alumni Award in Entrepreneurship.