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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Vice President operating in the Consumer Electronics 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.
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.
Alan Flower
Senior Vice President – CTO EMEA & Global Head, Cloud Native Labs of HCL Technologies
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About HCL Technologies: HCL Technologies is a global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses.
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.
Ramchander S.
Vice President of Global Marketing of Castrol
Ramchander A.S. is a Vice President of Global Marketing at Castrol.
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About Castrol: Castrol is a worldwide leader in high performance lubricants for the automotive, industrial, marine and aerospace industries.
Hervé Fontaine
Vice President – Enterprise and Business Development of HTC Vive
Vice President Virtual Reality B2B and Business Development at HTC. Hervé leads the development of HTC’s new Virtual Reality business, HTC Vive, in the professional segment as well as business development activities with large software partners and start-ups in Europe. From virtual showrooms for car brands, VR solutions for engineers or architects, to VR based teaching platforms for learning through experience in VR, virtual reality offers boundless opportunities to enhance the way we work with colleagues located across the world, learn or entertain ourselves with friends even when they are thousands of kilometres away. Hervé joined HTC in 2012 leading European sales for HTC smartphone business. He previously worked for Sony Group where he held various Sales and Marketing leadership positions at Sony Ericsson’s European Headquarter as well as in China as well as for France Telecom (Orange) in France and in Japan.
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About HTC Vive: HTC Vive is a virtual reality headset developed by HTC and Valve Corporation.
Pam Charris
Vice President Global Marketing of Nualight
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About Nualight: Nualight is a LED retail lighting company specializing in illuminating refrigerated displays and fresh food displays.
Wouter Beek
Vice President of uPnP Forum
Wouter is a home networking architect at Cisco System SPVSS. He started his career in Philips at the Physics Labs, where he worked on simulation applications for cathode ray tubes. Later he migrated to Applied Technologies, also a department of Royal Philips Electronics. Among one of the many topics that he tackled, he started working on home network connectivity. Later he moved to the Television department where he functioned as technology leader in home connectivity. Wouter moved to Cisco Systems and functions as home networking architect. In this role he is the main representative of Cisco Systems in the UPnP standardization organization and currently acting as Director on the UPnP Steering Committee and has technical responsibilities among others as UPnP Compliance Committee Chair and IOT Datamodel chair. His contributions in the UPnP Forum are now standardized in UPnP: AV3 AV4, Multi-Screen and other specifications of the UPnP Forum.
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About Cascoda, Open Connectivity Foundation, uPnP Forum: UPnP Forum is an industry initiative of members working to enable easier device-to-device interoperability and better home networking.
Wouter Beek
Vice President of uPnP Forum
Wouter is a home networking architect at Cisco System SPVSS. He started his career in Philips at the Physics Labs, where he worked on simulation applications for cathode ray tubes. Later he migrated to Applied Technologies, also a department of Royal Philips Electronics. Among one of the many topics that he tackled, he started working on home network connectivity. Later he moved to the Television department where he functioned as technology leader in home connectivity. Wouter moved to Cisco Systems and functions as home networking architect. In this role he is the main representative of Cisco Systems in the UPnP standardization organization and currently acting as Director on the UPnP Steering Committee and has technical responsibilities among others as UPnP Compliance Committee Chair and IOT Datamodel chair. His contributions in the UPnP Forum are now standardized in UPnP: AV3 AV4, Multi-Screen and other specifications of the UPnP Forum.
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About Cascoda, Open Connectivity Foundation, uPnP Forum: UPnP Forum is an industry initiative of members working to enable easier device-to-device interoperability and better home networking.
