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Team
Leadership
William B Elmore
(Chairman)Bill serves as the chairman of the board for XMOS. He created Foundation Capital in 1995 and currently sits on the board of directors of SpringCM, TeaLeaf Technology, Venafi and HotLin. He was previously on the boards of Atheros Communications, WindRiver Systems, Cloudshield (acquired by SAIC) and Biz360 (acquired by Attensity). Before Foundation Capital, Bill held a number of positions including...
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David May
(CTO & Co-Founder)Before founding XMOS, David was Head of Computer Science at University of Bristol, previous to that he spent 16 years in the semiconductor industry at Inmos and then STMicroelectronics. David was the architect of the Transputer and the author of the OCCAM language. David created XMOS core technologies and has 33 granted patents with many pending patents centered around microprocessor technology....
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Nick Bishop
(Head of Finance)Nick joined XMOS after holding the post of Director of Finance for nearly 8 years at Cramer Systems, where he was responsible for group finances and was heavily involved in raising capital, an acquisition and the successful trade sale of Cramer to Amdocs. He began his career with KPMG and before joining Cramer worked at a high level within several dynamic early stage and high growth companies....
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Tom Lee
(VP Sales & Marketing)Tom manages worldwide sales and marketing activities for XMOS. Tom has nearly 30 years of international semiconductor marketing and sales experience including management positions at Intel, Cirrus Logic, Chicory Systems and Parthus/CEVA. His extensive experience includes development of successful channel and business programs for young, rapidly growing embedded semiconductor companies. Tom holds...
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Mark Lippett
(VP Engineering)Mark is responsible for all aspects of product development at XMOS. Prior to joining the company, Mark was founder and CTO of Ignios. He has 15 years of experience in the electronics industry, with involvement in both blue-chip companies and entrepreneurial ventures. Mark has expertise in multiprocessor IC design, where he holds several patents, as well as architectural exploration and embedded...
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Shankar Pennathur
(VP Operations)Shankar is primarily responsible for Manufacturing Operations at XMOS, managing activities pertaining to foundry, packaging assembly, test, planning and logistics. Prior to XMOS, Shankar ran Manufacturing Operations at Oxford Semiconductor (a leader in Storage Controller chips, acquired by PLX since), supporting its growth from $15M to $45M and enabling its successful transition from an ASIC...
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Board
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William B Elmore
(Chairman)Bill serves as the chairman of the board for XMOS. He created Foundation Capital in 1995 and currently sits on the board of directors of SpringCM, TeaLeaf Technology, Venafi and HotLin. He was previously on the boards of Atheros Communications, WindRiver Systems, Cloudshield (acquired by SAIC) and Biz360 (acquired by Attensity). Before Foundation Capital, Bill held a number of positions including...
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Dr Hermann Hauser
(Non Executive Director)Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, he has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio),...
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Alan Duncan
(Non Executive Director)Alan has been in the venture capital industry for more than 20 years, initially through establishing a corporate venturing fund for Ferranti and then with Foreign & Colonial Ventures and Newmarket Venture Capital. He joined Prelude in 1996 and is responsible for a portfolio of Esprit's electronics and computer related investments. Alan has an electronic engineering background and gained...
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Hitesh Mehta
(Non Executive Director & Co-Founder)Hitesh has extensive experience as a venture capital investor in high technology companies with significant operational experience. Hitesh is a General Partner at Acacia Capital and previously a General Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners Limited. His operational experience includes being Managing Director of Fayrewood plc as well as a variety of senior positions at IBM UK. Hitesh, an IBM Scholar...
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David May
(CTO & Co-Founder)Before founding XMOS, David was Head of Computer Science at University of Bristol, previous to that he spent 16 years in the semiconductor industry at Inmos and then STMicroelectronics. David was the architect of the Transputer and the author of the OCCAM language. David created XMOS core technologies and has 33 granted patents with many pending patents centered around microprocessor technology....
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Charles Cotton
(Non Executive Director)Previously, Charles was Executive Chairman of GlobespanVirata Inc. the NASDAQ listed, New Jersey based, semiconductor company. Prior to the merger with GlobeSpan, he was CEO of Santa Clara based Virata Corp. He took Virata public on NASDAQ, in 1999, raised $682 million across six financing rounds, executed five acquisitions and established and ran a venture fund. Previously, he was CEO of...
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Advisory Board
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Richard Bahr
Richard is the vice president of engineering for Atheros Communications. Prior to joining the highly successful wireless semiconductor company Atheros, he was the vice president of engineering for Silicon Graphics, Inc., a computing, visualization and storage company. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from MIT.
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Professor Stephen Furber
Stephen is the ICL professor of computer engineering at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. Among his notable achievements is his work at Acorn where he was one of the designers of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. He holds the Queen's honour of CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and...
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John Hodgson
John was the CEO of Cambridge Silicon Radio from 2000 to 2006 and took the company public on the LSE in 2004. Prior to CSR, Mr. Hodgson was the Vice President of World Wide Sales and an Officer at AT&T Microelectronics (later became Lucent Microelectronics). He also served as the Vice President of World Wide Sales for VLSI technology from 1997 to 2000. Since 2006 he has held the position of...
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Dr. Lucio Lanza
Lucio is the managing director at Lanza techVentures, a venture capitol firm that he founded in January 2001. He has held a number of senior industry marketing, engineering and general management positions including many years at Olivetti S.p.A. Dr. Lanza has served as senior vice president and chief strategist for Cadence Design Group, as well as chairman of Intel’s Microprocessor Business...
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Sir Robin Saxby
Robin is the former CEO and chairman of ARM Holdings, PLC, Mr. Saxby is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). In 1991 he joined Cambridge-based ARM as the first CEO. He has also worked at Rank Bush Murphy, Pye, Motorola and Henderson Security. Immediately prior to his appointment at ARM, he worked at European Silicon Structures. Mr. Saxby has an honorary doctorate from the...
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Dr. Ivan Sutherland
Ivan is an American computer scientist and computing pioneer. Considered by many to be the creator of computer graphics, he received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. Dr. Sutherland was a co-founder of the pioneering computer...
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