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David Baillie, has over 25 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
and is a founder member and the current chair of the EMEA leadership
Council for the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).
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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.
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Florin Udrea is Professor in Semiconductor Device Engineering and a
Director of Studies at the University of Cambridge. He received his
PhD from Cambridge in 1995 and has over 20 years' 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 a number of design companies and
semiconductor foundries. He is an internationally-recognised expert
in the field of power semiconductor devices, with over 250 published
papers and 40 patents.
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As VP of Business Operations, Ted Wiggans is responsible for leading
the Quality and Operations teams and is a critical interface with
the company's manufacturing partners and customers. He also has a
cross functional responsibility for the delivery of the company's
short term business goals. 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 and quality engineering roles with
Motorola and Philips, following a degree in mechanical engineering
from University of Salford, Manchester.
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John Miller joined CamSemi in March 2005 to lead the company’s sales
and marketing activity 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.
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Mark Muegge, who was previously Director of AC/DC Products at iWatt,
oversees all CamSemi’s corporate and product marketing programmes
and works closely with teams in Cambridge, Taipei and Shenzhen. He
has an exceptionally strong profile in offline controllers coupled
with in-depth applications, marketing and first-class engineering
skills. He was iWatt’s first employee, co-invented its primary side
sensing technology and established the company’s engineering team.
In addition, his career includes senior marketing and engineering
roles with Hi/fn, Quality Semiconductor and IDT. He holds a BSEE
degree from the University of California, Davis.
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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.
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Nick joined CamSemi in April 2007 with 12 years technology sector
experience in financial and systems management and securing
corporate finance. He spent five years with ARM, seeing the company
grow from pre-IPO start-up to a public company and a global brand;
then four years at Frontier Silicon, a VC-backed fabless
semiconductor business. Before training and qualifying as an
accountant with Coopers and Lybrand (PwC), Nick spent 5 years in
investment banking at Nomura. He has a BSc (Hons) degree in applied
mathematics from The University of St Andrews, Scotland.
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