Management profiles

David Baillie, CEO
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).
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 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.
Ted Wiggans, VP Business Operations
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.
John Miller, VP Sales
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.
Mark Muegge, VP Marketing
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.
Nigel Heather, VP 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.
Nick Warburton, CFO
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.