Board of directors

Jonathan Brooks

Chairman of the Board

Jonathan Brooks is a non-executive Director of Aveva Group plc (LSE), e2v technologies plc (LSE) and Xyratex Limited (NASDAQ). Between 1995 and 2002 he was Chief Financial Officer and a Director of ARM Holdings plc, prior to which he performed a variety of financial roles for the Accor Group in London and Paris.

Graham O’Keeffe

Director

Graham O’Keeffe is an experienced technology venture capitalist focused on the mobile and semiconductor industries. His early career comprised engineering, operational and product marketing roles at Nokia and Psion. Graham currently manages a portfolio of expansion stage companies for Atlas Venture including picoChip Inc., Icera Inc., Phyworks Ltd., DisplayLink Inc., Zinwave Ltd., and Ubiquisys Ltd. Notable previous deals include BarcoNet (IPO on EuroNext and then acquired by Scientific Atlanta), Orthogon (acquired by Motorola) and Element 14 (acquired by Broadcom).

Dan Rosen

Director

Dan is a Principal at Highland, focusing on the mobile and financial services sectors. Dan represents Highland on the boards of PerkStreet Financial, picoChip, Triad 700 and TriStar. He also is currently or has been actively involved with Highland's investments in Optasite (acquired by SBA Communications), Quattro Wireless (acquired by Apple), WePay and Zoove. In addition, Dan is a Founding Executive Committee Member First Growth Venture Network. Mr Rosen has also worked in corporate development at RSA Security (RSAS, acquired by EMC), as a software consultant for American Management Systems (AMSY, acquired by CGI Group), and independently consulted to several communications start-ups. He has a BS, Finance and Information Systems from University of Pennsylvania, and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Stuart Paterson

Director

Stuart Paterson is a Partner at Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) focusing on investments in communications and semiconductor technology. Recent investments include the wireless distributed antenna systems business Zinwave; Virtensys, a fabless semiconductor developing PCI Express switching technology to support the next wave of server virtualization; Gigle Semiconductor, the "Anywire" home networking chip company and the online flight search engine Skyscanner. His successes include a number of flotations on the London Stock Exchange including IndigoVision, Orbital Software and CSR, as well as a number of successful trade exits to Cisco, Agilent and Rolls Royce. Mr Paterson has led many successful A round start-ups as well as a number of late stage deals with many of the other leading UK and international venture capital firms over the past decade. In addition, a number of his investments have closed important strategic investments from the likes of Cisco, Intel, TI, Philips, ARM, and Sony. He has a joint degree in Accounting & Computing Science, a CA from his career at Ernst & Young and has completed the Harvard Business School, Venture Capital Executive program.

Jamie Urquhart

Non-Executive Director

Jamie Urquhart has been a Director of picoChip Designs since March 2002. He is a non-executive Director of nCipher plc (joining the board when it was a private company in January 2000) and Antenova Limited (July 2002). Mr Urquhart is VP of Licensing and a Director of Splashpower Inc, a private company developing wireless power transfer systems. Prior to Splashpower, he was with ARM Holdings plc, from its inception (as a co-founder) in November 1990 until November 2002. During that time he undertook a number of roles, including VP Sales and Marketing, Chief Operating Officer (at the time of the ARM’s IPO) and Director, and latterly Chief Strategy Officer. Before that he was with Acorn Computers Limited, joining in 1984 as a VLSI Design Engineer, becoming VLSI Design Manager of the VLSI Design Group. Prior to that he was with Plessey Research Limited, where he worked on analog and digital developments utilizing high-speed CMOS, bipolar and gallium arsenide technologies. Mr Urquhart holds a BSc from Bath University in Physics and Physical Electronics.

Nigel Toon

Chief Executive Officer and President

Nigel Toon joined picoChip from Icera, which he co-founded in 2002, and where he was responsible for sales and marketing and was a member of the Board of Directors. He played a key role in growing Icera into a global leader in wireless technology. Prior to founding Icera, Mr Toon served at Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR), latterly as Vice President and Managing Director for the company's European business unit; a post he assumed in 1998, having previously held the roles of Managing Director, Marketing Director, Regional Sales Manager and Field Applications Engineer. Mr Toon's early career included business development and engineering roles with Standard Microsystems, Memec PLC and GEC. He studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Heriot Watt University and is a Member of the IEEE.

Technical Advisory Board

Prof David May

Head of Computer Science, Bristol University

David May was previously chief architect at ST Microelectronics and the developer of the Occam programming language used for the Transputer developed at Inmos.

Professor Simon Saunders

Independent Wireless Technologist

Simon Saunders is an independent expert and consultant in propagation, antennas, modem and cellular architectures and in the regulation of wireless systems. He is the founding chair of the Femto Forum and a visiting professor at the University of Surrey, where he previously lectured and led a research team within the Centre for Communication Systems Research. He is also a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board. He has acted as a consultant to many leading blue-chip companies, including BAA, the BBC, Mitsubishi, British Land, O2, Ofcom, BT and ntl. As Chief Technology Officer and then Chief Executive Officer of Cellular Design Services Ltd, Professor Saunders developed a suite of software tools and services for auditing and planning a wide variety of in-building radio systems. Prior to this he worked for mobile companies including Philips, Ascom and Motorola on private mobile radio (including the TETRA standard), paging and digital cellular systems.

He has invented more than fifteen patented technologies and has written more than 140 publications, including the first authoritative book on femtocells.

Professor Wenbo Wang

Professor and Dean of School of Telecommunications Engineering at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)

Wenbo Wang is one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of digital signal processing and wireless communications. In addition to his role at BUPT, Professor Wang is a member of the standing committee of Beijing Institute of Communication, and spent a period in the US working in a commercial R&D role. His current research interests include 3G, B3G and WiMAX radio transmission technology, wireless network theory, digital signal processing and software radio technology.