The Team of Associates
The Team of Associates
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Adelina Chalmers - Founder at The Geek Whisperer's Associates
Key Capabilities:
CXO advisor on matters around: leadership, people management and poor performance
Helped CTOs build and get buy-in for tech strategy
Helped CTOs secure millions of pounds for engineering redesigns and roadmap changes from the C-Suite or board
Helped CTOs and CEO deal with conflict in the C-Suite and with own teams.
Helped CEOs secure millions of pounds in investment
Improved performance and productivity from science/tech senior manager/executive which leads to increased profitability of an average of £1m-£5m
Accelerated engineering performance improvement of 3x-6x.
Paul Butcher - Former Chief Software Architect at Swiftkey
Key capabilities:
• Due diligence ahead of investment or M&A, having undergone and carried out both.
• Board-level involvement in all aspects of software development, including defining and communicating the technology roadmap, ensuring the architecture and development process deliver against commercial goals, and supporting sales and marketing.
• Investor relations, from initial pitch through term sheet negotiation and closure, and ongoing management of the relationship.
• Design and development of both B2B and B2C products.
Amy Weatherup - NED, former Microsoft, Qualcomm, Go to Market Advisor
Key capabilities:
Board-level involvement in commercial growth and strategy for technology-based companies looking to scale
Investor relations, from initial pitch through term sheet negotiation and closure, and ongoing management of the relationship
Initiating, developing and maintaining B2B relationships with multinational corporate clients Vodafone, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony and the world’s three biggest 3G mobile phone manufacturers.
Developing strategies for launching new products and/or entering new markets (B2B)
Assessing existing markets and business models
Business development experience spans small start-ups and large multi-nationals, including STNC (acquired by Microsoft), Audio Analytic (world leader in sound recognition software), Microsoft, Qualcomm and Hutchison Whampoa (Mobile phone operator “3”)
Market expertise spans embedded software, consumer electronics, mobile telecoms.
Mentors
Mentors
Jamie Urquhart - Arm Founder
Jamie Urquhart - Arm Founder
Jamie is a Venture Partner with Pond Venture Partners, investors in early stage companies in the fields of semiconductor, communication, wireless and software. He has a BSc from Bath University in Physics and Physical Electronics and started his career in analogue and digital chip design at Plessey Research (Caswell), who part-funded his degree.
Jamie left Plessey to join Acorn Computers in 1984 to start on the implementation of the ARM processor, later managing the VLSI Design team. Jamie was part of the founding team of ARM Holdings from its inception in November 1990 until November 2002. At ARM he undertook a number of roles, including VP of Sales and Marketing, Chief Operating Officer when the company floated on NASDAQ and the LSE, and latterly Chief Strategy Officer.
After ARM he was an angel investor, before joining Pond Venture Partners as a Venture Partner. He has experience of working with public companies and start-ups in operational and non-executive roles. He chaired the ESCO Steering Group whose report in 2013 led to the formation of the ESCO Council (http://www.esco.org.uk/).
Jamie is a Fellow of the IET and an Honorary Fellow (Entrepreneurship) of the Judge Business School. His current interests are learning MATLAB, Python, uPython, C++ and programming ARM mbed development systems.
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