Board Members

 

 

Dr. David Cleevely  CBE, FREng, FIET - Chairman
 
David Cleevely was appointed the Founding Director and Executive Committee Member of the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge in 2009

He is the Chairman of CRFS, 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 was Chairman until November 2009

In late 2004 he co-founded the 3G femto base station company, 3WayNetworks, which was sold to Airvana in April 2007.  He has invested in over 35 companies and is Chairman of four of them, including the award winning restaurant “Bocca di Lupo”. He has been a prime mover behind Cambridge Network, co-founder of Cambridge Wireless, co-founder and Chairman of Cambridge Angels and is a member of the IET Communications Policy Panel.  For 8 years until March 2009 he was a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board.  From 2001 to 2008 he was a member of the Ministry of Defence Board overseeing information systems and services (DES-ISS, formerly the Defence Communications Services Agency).

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 and the IET.

 

 

  
Stirling Essex - Espansivo 

Stirling Essex has over 25 years of product development, product management, strategic marketing and business development experience in many areas of wireless technology, and has been intimately involved in the development of test systems for GSM, CDMA (IS-95), 3G (W-CDMA) and LTE. He founded Espansivo, a technology consultancy specialising in helping organisations with their technology, product and business decisions, in 2005. Stirling was previously a co-champion of the Cambridge Wireless Future Wide Area Wireless Special Interest Group and has been a member of the Cambridge Wireless Board since 2004.
 

 

 

 

 

Graham Fisher - Research Commercialisation Manager, University of Bath

Graham Fisher is a Research Commercialisation Manager at the University of Bath. His role is to create opportunities to work with industry and he is delighted to hear from anyone with possible research or consultancy needs or who wishes to explore collaboration, co-development or partnership opportunities.

With a background as an electronics and radio frequency engineer Graham previously held a wide variety of technical, research and managerial posts within the telecommunications industry including 5 years as Managing Director of France Telecom R&D UK Ltd (the UK R&D laboratory for the France Telecom / Orange Group).

Latterly he founded the independent telecommunications and innovation consultancy BathCube Ltd and continues to split his time between BathCube and University of Bath activities. Located in Bath at the heart of a dynamic regional technology cluster he is continually seeking to improve innovation and collaboration between companies and to better connect the East of England and Southwest technology sectors.  

Graham first joined the board of Cambridge Wireless in 2009 and has recently been co-opted for a further term. He is a regular speaker at Cambridge Wireless, Bath Ventures and Silicon Southwest events.

 

 

Raj Gawera, VP of Marketing - Samsung

Raj has over 20 years of experience in short range and wireless communications technology R&D, business development and marketing. Raj was part of initial IEEE 802.11 team to define first WLAN standard in 1996 – a technology which has now shipped over 5bn units. Raj also helped pioneer the first 3G data transmissions working with Motorola and others to demonstrate one of the first video calls at the 3GSM show in 1998 – many years before 3G licences were awarded.  He has also been awarded a number of patents including short range wireless technologies.

 
Raj was a founder member of startup UbiNetics (1999), which successfully exited in 2005 for over $120m USD. As part of that deal, Raj joined CSR and ultimately took the role of VP Marketing where he was part of the team that acquired SiRF Technologies for $136m (2009) to add GPS technology to CSR portfolio. More recently in 2012, he helped sell CSR’s handset business to Samsung in a deal worth $310m for 310 staff. Raj now works as VP Marketing within Samsung defining future wireless products for the world’s largest mobile equipment manufacturer.

 

 
Jean-Louis Fuccellaro -  Orange

Jean-Louis has been holding different senior positions in several European countries in the telecom industry for the last 25 years, with a particular focus on wireless technologies.  His experience encompasses a wide range of activity ranging from research to operation where he has been actively involved in all major technologies from GSM to LTE, services and IT.  Among previous positions, he was Managing Director of Orange Labs UK, CTO, Director of Acces Network Expertise Center, IT Director, Project Manager... He  was recently appointed as European Country Support VP for Orange.

 

 

 

 

  
 Jack Lang - Chair, Raspberry Pi Foundation
 
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. He was co-Founder of Artimi, (mow VBeam USB systems) 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), His current activity is a Chair of Raspberry Pi Foundation. He has other interests in molecular gastronomy and fireworks.

 

 

   
 
Ted 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.
 

 

 

  
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.    
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Webb FREng FIET FIEEE - Chief Strategy Officer Neul 

William is CTO at Neul, a Cambridge company developing wireless machine-to-machine technologies and networks. Previously William was Head of Research and Development at Ofcom for seven years where he managed a team providing technical advice and performing research across all areas of Ofcom’s regulatory remit. He also led some of the major reviews conducted by Ofcom including the Spectrum Framework Review and development of Spectrum Usage Rights.

Prior to that, William worked for a range of communications consultancies in the UK in the fields of hardware design, computer simulation, propagation modelling, spectrum management and strategy development. William also spent three years providing strategic management across Motorola’s entire communications portfolio, based in Chicago. William has published ten books, eighty papers, and four patents.

He is a Visiting Professor at Surrey University and DeMontfort University and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE and the IET where he has served as a Vice President. His biography is included in multiple “Who’s Who” publications around the world. William has a first class honours degree in electronics, a PhD and an MBA. He can be contacted at william.webb@neul.com. 

 

 

 

  
Peter Whale FIET - Qualcomm Technologies Inc
  
Peter works for Qualcomm, where he is Director of Product Management for the Qualcomm wholly-owned subsidiary, Xiam Technologies Ltd. Peter’s current focus is on giving mobile devices a virtual “sixth sense” by utilising machine intelligence to improve device performance and overall user experience.

Peter has been a board member of Cambridge Wireless since 2009. He leads the team each year that put together the flagship Future of Wireless International Conference for Cambridge Wireless - a process which takes a full 12 months to plan and execute! Peter is a long-standing SIG Champion of the recently rebranded Future Devices SIG, and has conceived and delivered many innovative and successful events along with his fellow co-champions.

Peter is co-author of Essentials of Mobile Handset Design, published by Cambridge University Press, a book that addresses the complex blend of design and technology factors needed to create great devices.

Prior to Qualcomm, Peter was a key player in the growth and development of TTPCom, headquartered in the Cambridge region, into a global software business. Peter held a wide range of management and technical roles, with experience stretching from the physical layer through to application platforms and mobile operating systems. Proud to have developed and sold software solutions shipped in over 100 million handsets, with an extensive list of blue chip customers globally. Peter's earlier career was as a technology consultant with both TTP Group and Logica, within the telecoms sector.

With an interest in the non-profit sector, and building on Qualcomm’s philanthropic corporate giving culture, Peter built and continues to nurture the corporate relationship between Qualcomm and the Royal National Institute for Blind People (RNIB), as well as being a Trustee of the Ely Foodbank, a charity which launched in late 2012. Peter is a Member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer, and holds an honours degree in Computer Science.