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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based VP’ operating in the Semiconductor 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.
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.
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.
Noel Hurley
VP of Incubation 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.
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.
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.
Matt Fyles
VP Software of Graphcore
Matt Fyles is a software team lead at Graphcore.
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About Graphcore: Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Sally Mortimore Doherty
CMO & VP Marketing of Graphcore
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About Graphcore: Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Simon Stacey
SVP Operations of Graphcore
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About Graphcore: Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Andrew Dewhurst
VP Engineering of XMOS
Andrew is responsible for all core engineering activities, delivering our applications, tools, silicon and technology infrastructure. With over 30 years technical leadership across high-tech ventures, Andrew has extensive experience in the consumer, automotive and defence sectors.
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About XMOS: A deep tech company at the leading edge of the AIoT, putting intelligence, connectivity & enhanced computation at the core of smart products
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.
David Hargreaves
VP Software of DisplayLink
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About DisplayLink: DisplayLink is a hardware and software company specializing in multi-monitor and zero client computing.
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.
Bob Heads
VP Systems Engineering of Frontier Silicon
Bob is VP of Group Engineering for Toumaz with responsibility for both the Frontier Silicon and Sensium Healthcare engineering teams. In his early career Bob was a digital hardware and software engineer, before progressing to manage large, global multi-skilled engineering teams. He managed the Engineering team for 3Com’s LAN business, overseeing the development of silicon, hardware and software solutions. Bob was also instrumental in setting up the joint venture between Huawei in China and 3Com. At Frontier, he has led the engineering team which has delivered the world’s leading DAB digital radio technology solutions. Bob has a first class honours degree in Computer Engineering from Manchester University.
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About Frontier Silicon: Frontier Silicon is a supplier of semiconductors, modules, and software solutions for digital radio and connected devices.
Will Robbins
VP Silicon of Picocom
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About Picocom: Picocom is a 5G open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist.
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.
Jess Brown
VP of Sales of HiLight Semiconductor
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About HiLight Semiconductor: HiLight Semiconductor designs and supplies analogue and mixed-signal CMOS ICs communications and networking applications.
