The Board
Ron Black
Chairman
- Previously CEO of various public and private tech companies located in both Europe and the US, including Rambus, MobiWire, UPEK, and Wavecom
- Held various executive positions at IBM, Motorola, Lucent, and Gemplus (now Gemalto)
Ian Drew
Non-Executive Director
International leadership experience with FTSE and NASDAQ-listed companies including ARM Holdings and Intel
- Ian has helped revolutionise the technology industry from sole PC use to mobile phones and tablets
- Notably lead ARM’s “Internet of Things” security and Connected Car strategy
- During his 12-year tenure with ARM, the company market capitalization grew 17x, before being sold to Softbank for $32bn in 2016.
Edmund Truell
Strategy Director
30+ years as an active City investor, leader and entrepreneur. Relevant roles include:
- Co-founder of Hambro European Ventures; founder Duke Street Capital owning: Glass’, built up to be the leading UK provider of vehicle repair estimation services and resale price information; Equity Red Star, leading Lloyds motor insurer; and Getty Images, rolled out globally to lead the image market
- Founder & CEO Tungsten, world’s largest compliant invoicing network
- 30% p.a. IRR from 100+ deals over 23 years
Steve Midgley
Non-Executive Director
20+ years operational execution experience in fast growing technology companies
- Head of Amazon Web Services -Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Delivered near eight fold growth in run rate revenues into the billions of dollars
- Managing Director Cisco - North Asia, Korea, and Emerging Asia Singapore
Steve Lee
Non-Executive Director
25 years experience in global technology leadership and key management positions
- Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1992 and worked at NASA Ames Research Center
- Leading the Korea Supercomputing Center as the Director
- R&D Head of DASAN Networks, also Regional R&D Head of Siemens and NSN(Nokia)
- As a CEO, Leading the IPO activities of Handysoft in KOSDAQ (a Korea Stock Market)
- Founding CEO of HandyCar focusing on Connected Car business in Aisa
Lincoln Jopp
Non-Executive Director
20 years experience in global leadership and operations
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Partner at the private equity firm Disruptive Capital Finance
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Former COO and director of the technology company Tungsten plc
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Former soldier including former assistant head of the UK Ministry of Defence’s strategy unit
- Masters degree in Technology from Cranfield University