Speakers
Chair - Quantum Dice, NED - Mach42, Aerospace Technology Institute, Advisor - National Physics Laboratory
Janet is Chair of the Board at Quantum Dice, Independent NED and Advisor at Mach42, Independent NED at the Aerospace Technology Institute and also a member of the UK Government’s Semiconductor Advisory Panel and member of National Physics Laboratory’s Major Programme Portfolio Advisory Council.
Prior to her portfolio career she held senior positions within the semiconductor industry most recently as Strategic Group Director at Cadence Designs System leading international teams, driving bespoke approaches and effective ecosystem partnerships that delivered business revenue growth across the semiconductor supply chain.
After her engineering degree at Girton College Cambridge University she worked in the USA and UK in semiconductor design through to manufactured product shipping in volume. She and her team taped out over 300 devices.
She then moved into roles in electronic design automation at Cadence which spanned technical application engineering, product management, project management, global services, IP and software sales director. Her final role was as International Group Director Strategic Accounts.
In the 2025 New Year’s honours list she was awarded an MBE for services to quantum hardware and cyber security.
Later in 2025 she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from Electronics Weekly Women Leaders in Electronics and was named in the top 5 of Computer Weekly’s most influential woman in UK technology.
She mentors STEM professionals from under represented groups as they progress through the ranks all the way to C-suite.