Professor William Webb was instrumental in designing Weightless, a new global standard for wireless M2M communications, is CEO of the Weightless SIG, and has seventeen patents pending or granted for the technology. He was a co-founder and CTO of Neul, a Cambridge start-up established to commercialise Weightless technology, was President of the IET during 2015, was a member of Ofcom's Spectrum Advisory Board (OSAB), and is on the Board of TPRC. In 2005, he became one of the youngest ever Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a fellow of the IEEE.