picoChip - Management

picoChip has a balance of experienced management and world leading engineers to deliver the technologies that will result in competitive advantage for communications OEMs and operators over the next decade.

The management team has many years of experience with global technology companies and wireless operators around the world, while the team of over 100 hardware and software engineers has world leading experience in communications system design, software development, computer architecture, digital signal processing, RF design, and silicon design.

Guillaume d'Eyssautier
Chief Executive Officer

Guillaume joins picoChip from Cadence Design Systems, where he was Senior VP and General Manager EMEA. Prior to joining Cadence, Guillaume served as Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at IBM Technology Group, which IBM Microelectronics and Storage were part of. He also worked for Conexant (Rockwell Semiconductor Systems), GEC-Plessey Semiconductors. Educated in France, his early career included positions at Philips Semiconductors, Signetics Corp. USA, and Matra Harris Semiconductors.

Peter Claydon
Chief Operating Officer and co-founder

Prior to founding picoChip, Peter was General Manager of Oak Technology Limited, which was sold to Conexant Systems in January 2000. He has 20 years of management and engineering experience, having previously worked at Pioneer, Brooktree and The General Electric Company (now Marconi).

Dr. Douglas Pulley
Chief Technical Officer and co-founder

Doug has fifteen years' experience of air interface design and wireless system architecture at companies such as Vodafone, Lucent Technologies and Oak Technology before joining picoChip in December 2000. He has been responsible for the systems aspects of air interface implementation in RF, ASIC and DSP devices as well as the deployment, operation and performance optimisation of wireless networks. Doug was a founding director and member of the executive board of the UK's Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications.

Steve Laurenson
Vice President Engineering

Steve joins picoChip from Agere Systems (formerly Lucent Technologies Microelectronics), where, amongst other roles, he established the company’s 50-strong European GSM Development Centre. In this role, and subsequently as Agere’s Mobile Terminal Division’s Technical Services Director, he has extensive experience in directing teams to develop, deploy and support handset reference designs.

Iain Silvester
Chief Financial Officer

Iain joins the company from holding the position of finance director at Bristol, UK-based video compression technology specialist Motion Media PLC, where he managed the company's flotation on the official list of the LSE (London Stock Exchange). Iain Silvester is a chartered accountant, and began his career with Ernst & Young. Prior to joining Motion Media he was finance director of Chemical Design Holdings plc, an AIM-listed drug discovery software company, and managed it’s subsequent acquisition by Oxford Molecular Group.

Rupert Baines
Vice President of Marketing

Rupert has spent eighteen years in technology marketing, working on commercialising many leading edge technologies. He spent six years with Analog Devices in Boston, working on semiconductors for GSM and wireless infrastructure before managing their Broadband product line and holding responsibility for the industry-standard ADSL chipset. He has also worked for operators, most recently as Director of Product Development and Strategy for Atlantic Telecom, where he ran a large pan-European DSL rollout and trialled wireless broadband deployments.

Dave Hutton
Vice President Worldwide Sales

Dave joins picoChip from Pericom Semiconductors running the European Sales operations. He has spent over 23 years in sales & marketing positions in the semiconductor and wireless industries. Dave began his career as a design engineer. He spent 9 years at Texas Instruments in Sales Management and Systems Marketing before moving to IDT for a further 9 years where he was European Sales Director. More recently he worked for European based semiconductor IP start-ups Silaria and Siroyan where he was Vice President of Sales.

Will Robbins
Vice President of Silicon, Tools and Platforms

Will was one of the founding team at picoChip and has over seventeen years' experience in semiconductor design and design management and in recent years has managed semiconductor design projects that have consistently produced "right first time" silicon for highly complex devices. Will is named as inventor or co-inventor in 29 US patents. Most recently design manager at Oak Technology, he has worked in a number of other companies including INMOS, Brooktree and ST Microelectronics.

Mike Davison
Director of Operations

Mike was General Manager of Conexant Digital Infotainment until June 2001. In more than 20 years in the industry, Mike has held a variety of technical and managerial positions in semiconductor and board-level design, manufacture and test. Mike started his career at GEC Telecommunications (now Marconi) and has since worked at Brooktree, Pioneer and Oak Technology.