Management team profiles

Management profiles

David Baillie, CEO
	David Baillie, formerly director of worldwide strategic accounts for LSI Logic Europe, has over 20 years’ experience in semiconductor companies that have successfully grown from start-up through IPO and on to market-dominant positions. He was the second employee of LSI Logic in Europe and the first for C-Cube Microsystems. During his career he has held a variety of international technical, marketing and sales positions including a role in California as VP and general manager of the Consumer Networked Products Division of C-Cube Microsystems. He holds a BSc degree in Applied Physics and an MEng in Microelectronics & Business Studies, both from Durham University.

Gehan Amaratunga, CTO and founder
	Gehan Amaratunga is 1966 Professor of Engineering and Head of Electronics, Power and Energy Conversion at the University of Cambridge. Since receiving his PhD from Cambridge in 1983, he has held academic and research positions at Southampton University, the University of Liverpool and Stanford University in California. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a recipient of awards from that body, the IEE and the Royal Society. He has a long record of successful collaborations with industry partners in Europe, the USA and Asia. He has also acted as an expert in patent litigation for multinationals and as an adviser to leading investment firms. He has published over 400 papers and is an inventor on 22 patents.

Florin Udrea, fellow and founder
	Florin Udrea is a reader in the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge and an advanced EPSRC fellow. He received his PhD from Cambridge in 1995 and has over a decade of experience in power devices, MEMS and smart sensors. Since joining Cambridge University in 1992, he has worked on industrial projects with several major European, American and Japanese-based multinationals and has been a consultant to Fuji Electric and Dynex. He is an internationally-recognised expert in the field of power semiconductor devices, with over 150 published papers and 20 patents.

Ted Wiggans, VP of Operations
	Before joining CamSemi in 2006, Ted Wiggans was Operations Director at Zetex Semiconductors for 13 years and with overall responsibility for its multi-site, multi-national manufacturing activities and a global team of 500. He transformed Zetex’s business model from in-house to part fabless manufacture, set up a joint-venture plant in China, established multiple supply agreements with Far East sub-contractors and helped secure annual sales growth rates of up to 40%. In addition, he has held senior-level manufacturing roles with Motorola and Philips. He started his career with Mullard Blackburn in 1974 following a degree in mechanical engineering from University of Salford, Manchester.

John Miller, VP of Business Development
	John Miller joined CamSemi in March 2005 to head-up the company’s sales and marketing teams in preparation for first product launches. He has over 22 years' experience in power-related engineering, marketing and sales roles including two periods of office with Philips Semiconductors. He started his electronics career designing specialist power supplies before moving into sales and marketing positions with Philips Components, Philips Semiconductors, Semtech and Memec. He was head-hunted back to work within regional sales at Philips Semiconductors in 2000 and within a year stepped up to take worldwide marketing responsibility for the company’s extensive power semiconductor range.

Trevor Gainey, VP of Quality and Reliability
	As VP of Quality and Reliability, Dr Trevor Gainey is responsible for leading CamSemi’s quality engineering team and is a critical interface with the company’s manufacturing partners and its customers. Dr Gainey has more than 15 years’ experience in quality engineering management and before joining CamSemi in 2005 was Customer Quality and Reliability Director at LSI Logic. He helped establish LSI Logic’s European quality operation in the early 90s before first leading the regional team and then taking up a similar role but on a worldwide basis. He started his semiconductor R&D career at STC, following his PhD research at Southampton University.

Nigel Heather, VP of Engineering
	Nigel Heather, previously VP of Engineering with SiGe Semiconductor, is responsible for day to day management of CamSemi’s engineering groups. He has a track record in accelerating product development in early-stage semiconductor businesses and more than 20 years’ experience in engineering management and IC design. During his career he has held a number of executive team roles including VP of Operations at Symbionics where he led the merger of the company’s engineering groups, IT and facilities into Cadence’s design services business. He started his IC design career at GEC Research in the early 80s and holds a BSc degree in computing science from Imperial College, London.