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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Vice President operating in the Semiconductor space. If you think a Vice President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Peter Williams
Executive Vice President, Ricoh Europe of Ricoh Company
Peter is a member of the Ricoh Europe Board, responsible for multiple lines of business including the Production Printing Business Group, Additive Manufacturing, Service and Annuity, Business Process Services and the European Technology Centre. In this role, Peter drives Ricoh Europe’s long-term strategy to become a leader in the production printing market. In 2009, he established the European Production Printing Business Group headquarters in London and launched Ricoh’s European Production Printing Innovation Centre. Peter’s current focus is building the Ricoh brand in the corporate and commercial printing markets, as well as developing the production printing sales and support infrastructure across all European operations. Peter is responsible for Ricoh’s Additive Manufacturing strategy in the EMEA region, the Business Process Services, and Service and Annuity lines of business, and the European Technology Centre, which brings customer-driven innovation to Ricoh both regionally and globally.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Peter Williams
Executive Vice President, Ricoh Europe of Ricoh Company
Peter is a member of the Ricoh Europe Board, responsible for multiple lines of business including the Production Printing Business Group, Additive Manufacturing, Service and Annuity, Business Process Services and the European Technology Centre. In this role, Peter drives Ricoh Europe’s long-term strategy to become a leader in the production printing market. In 2009, he established the European Production Printing Business Group headquarters in London and launched Ricoh’s European Production Printing Innovation Centre. Peter’s current focus is building the Ricoh brand in the corporate and commercial printing markets, as well as developing the production printing sales and support infrastructure across all European operations. Peter is responsible for Ricoh’s Additive Manufacturing strategy in the EMEA region, the Business Process Services, and Service and Annuity lines of business, and the European Technology Centre, which brings customer-driven innovation to Ricoh both regionally and globally.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Wissam Jabre
Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President of Dialog Semiconductor
Wissam joins Dialog after serving as Corporate Vice President of Finance at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) since 2014. Between 2003 and 2014, Wissam Jabre held various executive positions at Freescale Semiconductor, including Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer, Vice President Global Pricing, Chief Financial Officer of the Networking & Multimedia Solutions Group as well as senior roles within Corporate Treasury. During this period he gained extensive experience in accounting, financial planning, treasury, procurement, and merger and acquisition integration. He began his career at Schlumberger, gaining international experience in the Middle East, Europe and North America, before joining Motorola in 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and received an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York in 1998.
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About Dialog Semiconductor: Dialog Semiconductor makes energy-efficient, highly-integrated, and mixed signal ICs for mobile, IoT, and solid state lighting applications.
Patrick Hannon
Vice President – Corporate Development of Frontier Silicon
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About Frontier Silicon: Frontier Silicon is a supplier of semiconductors, modules, and software solutions for digital radio and connected devices.
Andrew Crofts
Vice President Applications of Anokiwave
Andrew Crofts joined Anokiwave in June 2015 as Vice President of Applications and is responsible for supporting the overall sales operations strategies designed to help achieve Anokiwave’s global business objectives through customer application support. Andrew brings over 30 years of applications, product management, marketing, business development, and product engineering experience from the microwave semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Anokiwave, Andrew was Field Applications Director at MACOM where he was responsible for technical support to key projects and customers across EMEA and Asia. He also held senior sales, marketing, and engineering positions at MACOM.
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About Anokiwave: Anokiwave features silicon core chip solutions that reduce system cost and enable rapid technology adoption.
