Board Members

 

 

Dr. David Cleevely  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.

 

 
Jean-Louis Fuccellaro -  European Country Support VP for 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 - University of Cambridge 
 
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 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 - Astutim
 
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.    
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Webb FREng FIET FIEEE - CTO, 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 - Qualcomm
 
Peter has a long track record of conceiving, developing and marketing successful technology-based solutions within the wireless telecoms sector.
Peter is Director of Product Management for Xiam Technologies Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm. Xiam is the market pioneer in discovery and personalisation solutions for Mobile Operators. Peter is responsible for driving further innovation into the product in order to create and sustain the market-leading position for Qualcomm in this sector.
In addition to being a board member of Cambridge Wireless, Peter is co-champion of the Cambridge Wireless Handset Special Interest Group, which explores and develops thinking around handset design issues, partnership and ecosystem development, and scrutiny of new business model opportunities.
Prior to Qualcomm, Peter was a long-standing member of the management team which developed TTPCom into a major global software licensing business, variously holding roles as an Engineering Group Manager, Key Account Manager, Head of Product Management, Third Party Ecosystem Manager and Head of Product Strategy. Peter was responsible for leading developing and marketing software solutions which shipped in over 100 million handsets, with over 40 handset manufacturers globally, and for developing strategic partnerships with a range of complementary mobile software providers. Peter’s earlier career was as a Consultant within the Telecoms sector with both TTP Group and LogicaCMG. In these roles he gained valuable experience in developing complex real-time software solutions for products in Private Mobile Radio, Paging, GSM Type Approval and Voice Recognition.
Peter has an interest in the non-profit sector, and building on Qualcomm’s philanthropic corporate giving culture, in 2008 built the first corporate relationship between Qualcomm’s European offices and the RNIB. Peter is a Member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer, and holds a honours degree in Computer Science.