CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, 28th January 2016 UltraSoC today announced that four distinguished technology business leaders have joined its Strategic Advisory Board. The new members – Simon Davidmann, Guillaume d’Eyssautier, Vijay Dube and Professor David May – bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the company. They have between them established and successfully exited at least a dozen start-ups, in the process creating hundreds of millions of dollars of value; and have served in C-level/VP roles within many of the electronics industry’s most high-profile companies.
“We are delighted to welcome Simon, Guillaume, Vijay and David as advisors,” said Rupert Baines, UltraSoC CEO. “Between them, they have an enviable record of serial entrepreneurship, blue-chip management, technological excellence, and genuinely visionary approaches to big problems. Their track records speak for themselves.”
The Strategic Advisory Board will be complementing UltraSoC’s main board. This includes Chairman Chris Gilbert, who was CEO of Ubiquisys and IPWireless, as well as executive roles in Data General and Motorola. Other board members include Chris Wade (founder and CEO of Cambridge Positioning Systems, sold to CSR in 2007), Luke Hakes (Investment Manager with Octopus) and Graham Pink (co-founder of CSR and served as SVP Engineering and EVP R&D).
UltraSoC provides semiconductor IP that enables on-chip monitoring and analytics within complex SoCs. The company’s products can be used within the development cycle to debug and performance-optimize designs, and to add functionality such as hardware-based security and in-field forensics. Users of UltraSoC technology benefit from accelerated time-to-market, easier detection of bugs, improved performance and reduced power consumption.
