About Peter
Peter is founder of Vision Formers, a specialist consultancy that helps visionary technology startups and scaleups get product to market and turn their ideas into reality. Peter has a long track record of conceiving, developing and marketing successful technology-based solutions, deployed at scale, globally. Innovative products Peter has brought to market in digital, cloud, AI, consumer electronics and telecommunications have been used by countless millions of people on a daily basis globally, badged by the world’s leading digital and technology brands.
Prior roles include COO of Iotic Labs, creating product and delivering to customers a secure data brokering environment for the Internet of Things, and Director of Qualcomm’s Machine Learning team, commercialising IP in the field of machine learning. Peter is named inventor on 9 patents in the field of machine learning. Peter was a key member of the leadership team at TTPCom, which played an early and pivotal role in the development of digital GSM in the 1990s and the emergence of Internet-enabled mobile phones, the predecessors of today’s smartphones. Peter developed and sold software solutions shipped in well over 100 million handsets, and managed relationships with many of its blue chip customers.
Peter has been a board member of CW (Cambridge Wireless) since 2009, and has been actively involved as a SIG Champion for much longer, most recently in helping to lead the Artificial Intelligence SIG deliver a range of innovative events.
Peter is co-author of Essentials of Mobile Handset Design, published by Cambridge University Press. Peter is a Fellow of the IET, a Member of the BCS, a Chartered Engineer, and holds an honours degree in Computer Science.