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This list showcases the top Cambridge based VP’ operating in the Electronics space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Pierre Bi
VP Air Quality of iRobot
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About iRobot: iRobot is an American technology company that designs and builds behavior-based AI robots.
Peter Greenhalgh
VP Technology & Fellow of Arm Holdings
Since then, he has held a range of engineering and lead architect positions in the company. He was the lead architect of the Arm Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A53 processors, and led the development and deployment of Arm big.LITTLE technology. Prior to this, he owned key units in the microarchitectures of the Cortex-R4, Cortex-A5 and Cortex-A8 processors. Between 2013 and 2017, Peter was the senior director of technology in Arm’s Compute Products Group (CPG), responsible for all microarchitecture and technology developments across Arm’s CPU. Peter holds 20 patents in the field of CPU microarchitecture and has a degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Heriot-Watt University.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Jem Davies
VP and Fellow and GM & Machine Learning Group of Arm Holdings
Jem is an Arm fellow and general manager of Arm’s Machine Learning business, focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions. He was previously GM and vice president of technology for the Media Processing, and Imaging and Vision, Groups, where he set the future technology roadmaps and undertook technological investigations for several acquisitions. Based in Cambridge, Jem was previously a member of Arm’s Architecture Review Board and holds four patents in the fields of CPU and GPU design.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Paul Williamson
SVP, GM Client Line of Business of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Chet Babla
VP Emerging Businesses of Arm Holdings
Chet Babla is VP in the Emerging Businesses Group at Arm, where he leads a team focused on enabling device security and also exploring future growth opportunities. Prior to Arm, he was at MediaTek, where he led the EMEA business development, sales and customer support teams. Chet has worked in the semiconductor industry for over 25 years, covering a variety of wireless and wireline technologies in technical and commercial roles. Chet has worked at multinationals and several UK fabless start-ups. Chet was also an ICT sector specialist advisor to the UK government’s trade and industry department.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Tim Whitfield
VP Strategy, Embedded & Automotive of Arm Holdings
Tim Whitfield is vice president strategy for the Business Transformation Group at Arm, where he leads a team looking at business and technology strategy for the Arm IP group. He has worked at Arm for more than 15 years, initially leading hardware engineering teams building IP and silicon implementations. More recently he spent 5 years in Taiwan establishing an engineering design centre and working with local ecosystem partners on advanced process technology. Before working at Arm, Tim worked at Fujitsu Telecommunications and GEC in the UK.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Ian Smythe
VP Solutions Marketing, Client Line of Business, Arm of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Stephen Pattison
VP Public Affairs of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Andrew Frame
VP Business Development of Secure Thingz
Andrew Frame joined Secure Thingz in 2019 as VP Business Development. Prior to this Andrew was Director of Business Development within the Emerging Business Group at Arm. In his 23+ years at Arm, Andrew held a number of key roles most notably Director IoT Technologies and Cortex-M Product Management. Andrew holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Studies from Sheffield Hallam University.
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About Secure Thingz: Secure Thingz a focus on developing and delivering advanced security solutions into the emerging Industrial Internet of Things.
Mickey Nasiri
Vice President Software of Roost
Vice President Software at Roost.
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About Roost: Roost is a Sunnyvale, CA-based developer of affordable smart home technology.
Michael Lamontagne
Executive Vice President and CFO of Etratech
Mike joined Etratech after a decade as Chief Financial Officer with Wolseley Canada, following that company’s acquisition of Westburne Canada. Mike built a national finance group from a greatly decentralized organization and worked to ensure good corporate governance for the firm across Canada. He directed the overall financial plans and accounting practices of the Canadian organization as well as monitoring the overall financial performance of each of the Canadian Business units. Mike was responsible for 10 acquisitions for Wolseley in Canada, contributing to a doubling of revenues from $600M+ to $1.3B. He was also responsible for overall leadership of the Finance Group. Prior to joining the Etratech team, Mike served as a board member.
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About Etratech: Etratech specializes in the design, development and manufacture of advanced electronic controls and control systems for global companies.
Meghan Golden
Vice President, Operations of Cumulus Digital Systems
Meghan is a Vice President of Operations and leads the Product Deployment team. Prior to co-founding Cumulus, she was a Program Manager at Shell TechWorks, Shell’s technology center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At STW, Meghan led the Smart Torque System program from inception to commercialization and supported multiple deployments of the system throughout the world. Prior to joining Shell, Meghan worked in the Defense Industry and served for 6 years on active duty as an officer in the U.S. Army. Meghan enjoys being active and spending time with her husband, Steve, and their three daughters Eleanor, Victoria, and Cecilia. Meghan earned a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) from the Project Management Institute. She is a combat veteran of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and recipient of the Bronze Star Medal.
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About Cumulus Digital Systems: Cumulus Digital Systems is a startup building an Internet of Tools-powered platform to make industrial facilities safer.
Nick Parsons
CTO and Vice President of Engineering of Polatis
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About HUBER+SUHNER, Polatis: Polatis is a tech company delivering optical switching solutions for remote fiber-layer provisioning, protection and monitoring.
