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Tony is an experienced consultant with over 20 years background in the
electronics and microelectronics industries. He graduated from Imperial
College, London in 1979 - having been a sponsored student with GEC Telecommunications
- and then moved from telecommunications design into semiconductors,
where he spent the next 17 years.
Tony's career in semiconductors has included senior management positions and
extended assignments in France, Japan and Singapore. His main interests have
been in microprocessors, system-on-chip and embedded software, with an emphasis
on design reuse. He has also been closely involved in the business aspects
of system-level chip design, including acquisition and use of third party IP.
Tony is a former Microprocessor Business Unit Manager for GEC Plessey Semiconductors
(GPS), including full P & L responsibility for all GPS Microprocessor and
Microcontroller products, with staff in UK and USA. Whilst at GPS, Tony chaired
the corporate team that implemented design for re-use in GPS and introduced
the company macrocell library. He also chaired the committee that introduced
system-led design techniques into GEC Plessey Semiconductors. Tony was also
a member of the GPS Management Council.
Tony is a former member of the Advisory Panel to the European Commission
on their Open Microprocessor Initiative (OMI). His other former roles
include Business Development Manager for the Graphics Business Unit of SGS
Thomson, Programmable Products Marketing Director for SGS Thomson Asia Pacific,
based in Singapore and General Manager for Japan and Asia Pacific, INMOS
Ltd.
He has extensive international management experience, all within the high technology
sector. He has also been involved in the management of change through the introduction
of TQM practices into two companies (ST and GPS). He also has substantial design
and project management knowledge, with focus on System Level Integration and
design for re-use.
Tony has presented numerous papers on the licensing of IP and design
for re-use and trade amongst others.
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