Martin Knight - Chairman, currently Chief Operating Officer of Imperial College, London, Martin is also Chairman of Imperial College Innovations, responsible for 56 spin-out companies set up to exploit Imperial College's intellectual property. Martin was formerly a Director at Morgan Grenfell.
David Gillett, a seasoned manufacturing business owner with 25 years' experience. David has been involved in an advisory role with Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd since its inception.
Chief Executive Officer: Simon Calder
Simon has a degree in electronic engineering from Edinburgh University and has spent a career adding significant value to businesses. Most recently, as CEO, he scaled and successfully exited SpiraTech, an early stage, UK based and VC-funded, software business. He also has an excellent sales and marketing pedigree, having grown annual sales from $0 to $150m while based in Sunnyvale, California as a Product Line Director at MMC Networks. Applied Micro Circuits Corp, a NASDAQ 100 Company, later acquired MMC for $4.5 billion, at the time, the second largest amount ever paid for a semiconductor company. Prior to Simon's time at MMC, he held various sales and marketing management positions at the Milpitas, California, Fortune 500 Company LSI Logic, negotiating and closing several $100M+ deals.
Founder & Chief Scientific Officer: Dr Anthony Hooley
CML's founder is a Cavendish Laboratory physics PhD and ex-IBM Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Tony has 35 years' experience in electronics, digital and software design. He has managed companies both as technical and managing director, in Cambridge and in Australia. He has worked on the research and development of CML's Digital Sound Projector and actuators since the beginning of 1995 when he filed CML's first patent.
Chief Financial Officer and Commerical Director: Andy Osmant
Andy is a Chartered Accountant and former Group Controller for SGB Group Plc. At SGB he managed the group's financial control function for businesses generating £300 million of turnover and located in over 20 countries, and was also a member of the company's general management team. He worked with Deloitte & Touche in Cambridge and Sydney for eight years. He was a director in the Technology Advisory Group in Sydney and had a client portfolio including Vodafone Australia, Brother and Kenwood Electronics.
