Board Members

 

 

David Cleevely - Chairman
 

David Cleevely FREng is the Chairman of CRFS, the spectrum monitoring company, which he co-founded in July 2007, and the founder and former Chairman of telecoms consultancy Analysys (acquired by Datatec International in 2004). In 1998, he co-founded the web-based antibody company Abcam (ABC.L) with Jonathan Milner and continues as Chairman. In late 2004 he co-founded the 3G pico base station company, 3WayNetworks, which was sold to Airvana in April 2007. He joined the Board of Trutap (formerly Hotxt) - a mobile phone social networking provider in October 2005 and joined the Board of ionscope in 2007 and became Chairman in May 2008. He has been a prime mover behind Cambridge Network, co-founder of Cambridge Wireless and is a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board and the IET Telecoms Sector Panel. 
After being sponsored to study Cybernetics at Reading by Post Office Telecommunications, he joined their Long Range Studies Division. A PhD at Cambridge was then followed by the Economist Intelligence Unit in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IET and he has recently held an Industrial Fellowship at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

 

 

  
Stirling Essex – CRFS
 
Stirling Essex has over 25 years of commercial and product development experience in many areas of wireless technology, and has been intimately involved in the development of test systems for GSM, CDMA (IS-95), and then 3G (W-CDMA), including responsibility for the development and marketing of 3G Test Mobiles (a key enabler for the early rollout of 3G networks) at Ubinetics. He founded Espansivo, a wireless technology consultancy in 2005, and joined CRFS, developers of innovative spectral monitoring products and services, in June 2008 as Director of Business Development. He is a co-champion of the Cambridge Wireless Future Wide Area Wireless Special Interest Group
 

 

 

 

  
 
 
Jack Lang is a serial entrepreneur and business angel with high-tech and internet companies based in Cambridge, where he is Entrepreneur in Residence, Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and an affiliated Lecturer at the Computer Lab. He is a by-fellow of Emmanuel College. A recent venture is as co-Founder of Artimi, which is making the next generation of ultra wide band wireless chips. Previously he was founder of Netchannel Ltd, an early Interactive TV company which was acquired by ntl: where he became Chief Technologist.  Before that founder of Electronic Share Information Ltd, one of the first online brokerages, acquired by E*Trade Inc. He is author of “The High Tech Entrepreneurs Handbook” (FT.Com/Prentice Hall 2001), He has other interests in molecular gastronomy and fireworks.

 

 

   
Ted Mercer - Taylor Wessing
 
Ted Mercer is a senior partner in the Technology and Telecoms Group. He specialises in the commercial and regulatory aspects of the telecoms industry and has a wide experience ranging from the construction and installation of telecoms systems through to the particular problems caused by the insolvency or liquidation of network and service providers.
His experience includes advising on: 
  • the development and regulation of new services such as the provision of television on mobile handsets;
  • the outsourcing of telecommunications networks and services;
  • the contractual interface with consumers and telecoms privacy issues;
  • sector and competition regulation (including advocacy before the Competition Appeal Tribunal);
  • the powers and liabilities associated with the installation of systems in public and private land;
  • telecoms standards; and
  • regulation of broadcasting services.
 

 

 

   
Rob Morland – Intrasonics
 
Rob Morland is Managing Director at Cambridge start-up company Intrasonics Ltd.  Intrasonics is developing a unique acoustic datacomms system for use in mobile-media interactivity applications linking broadcast TV and radio with mobile handsets and the internet.  Rob was one of the founders of Intrasonics, which was incubated within Sagentia (formally Scientific Generics) before its successful buyout in December 2007 by a group of Dutch media industry investors.  Whilst leading Sagentia’s communications business, Rob was actively involved with the early days of Cambridge 3G and developed major client relationships with, amongst others, Vodafone, Ofcom and the GSMA.  Prior to Sagentia, Rob was MD of Ionica International and a founder of Scientific Generics’ communications business.  His early career was spent designing custom LSI chips with Philips, followed by seven years at PA Technology, where he designed the first transmission plan for Racal Vodafone’s UK cellular access network.

 

 

  
Geoff Varrall – RTT Online
 
Geoff Varrall is a founder Director of RTT Programmes, a company specializing in providing technology and engineering consultancy to the wireless industry.
A co-author of three books on telecommunications, Geoff has recently completed a series of studies for the GSM Association on the RF Cost economics of handsets and is widely respected for his ability to combine a broad understanding of industry technical issues with economic and business analysis.
RTT has been running training workshops and strategic seminars and conferences in Europe for over 20 years. Part of his involvement with Cambridge Wireless is to help facilitate the development of new member services including workshops and conferences that can provide the basis for information exchange and business development opportunities for Cambridge Wireless members. He is co-Chairman of the Future Wide Area Wireless Special Interest Group and is presently working on developing a Wireless Heritage Special Interest Group. The role of the Wireless Heritage Group is to provide a forum in which the very substantial historic role of Cambridge in the wireless industry over the past 70 years can be promoted internationally.    
 

 

 

 

  
 
Malcolm Wood – Camrivox
 
Malcolm has over 30 years experience in the electronics and communications industry in senior management positions in Europe and USA. Malcolm started his management career at Marconi; from there he joined the management-buyout team at Airtech, as Managing Director, who later took the company to an AIM listing in 1996 following growth from £5m to £25m. He moved to America with Airtech to spearhead the international development of the company in the US, China, Korea, and Malaysia. 
Malcolm left Airtech to join ADC Telecommunication where he performed a turnaround function as President of the loss-making ADC Wireless division in San Diego which was subsequently sold.  In 1999 Malcolm joined the dot com world where he raised $40m for a start-up called Littlefeet.  Littlefeet unfortunately never reached its objectives as a company due to technical and market difficulties experienced by many companies at that time. Following this Malcolm ran the sales, marketing and the strategy arm of WFI inc an outsourcing company with a workforce of 2,000 people and a turnover of $300 million, based on performance, he added $200m to it's market capitalization. Malcolm returned to the UK in 2005.