Profiles

Howard Venning, managing director of Aspen Electronics, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Venning joined Aspen Electronics in 1981 having spent five years at Cossor Electronics (now Raytheon Systems) as a quality engineer. At Aspen, he started as a sales engineer, taking on various sales and management roles before becoming managing director in 1997. He attended Cranfield University’s business growth programme in 2000 before taking ownership of Aspen Electronics in 2005. A year later, he acquired Admiral Microwaves.

Lee Cresswell, new sales director for EMEA at LynuxWorks, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Cresswell was appointed sales director for EMEA at LynuxWorks this year bringing with him 20 years of experience of embedded software sales. He was most recently director of international sales at Real Time Innovations, where he had responsibility for sales in the EMEA region including both direct and indirect accounts.

Stefan Skarin, chief executive officer at IAR Systems, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Skarin was appointed CEO of Nocom Drift, now IAR Systems, in 2000 after establishing a track record of sales and corporate development in the IT software industry. In 2003, he turned Nocom around from bankruptcy to its best profit in 20 years.

Rodd Novak, chief marketing officer at Peregrine Semiconductor, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Novak has served as Peregrine Semiconductor’s chief marketing officer since 2010. He joined Peregrine in 2003 and has held various positions, including vice president of marketing, and vice president of sales and marketing.

Alf-Egil Bogen, the new chief marketing officer at Energy Micro, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Bogen who has recently taken over as chief marketing officer at Energy Micro in Norway spent most of his career with Atmel. He has more then 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and was the co-inventor of the AVR microcontroller. He was also a co-founder of the RF company Chipcon that was sold to Texas Instruments in 2006. His career started in the early 1990s at Nordic VLSI, which is today Nordic Semiconductor.

Dunstan Power, director and co-founder of Bytesnap Design, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Having graduated with a degree in engineering from Cambridge University, Power has been working in the electronics industry since 1992. In 2004 he founded Diglis Design, an electronic design consultancy, where he developed a number of electronic boards and FPGA designs. In 2008, he teamed up with former colleague Graeme Wintle to establish Bytesnap Design to supply clients with integrated software development and embedded design services.

Manfred Schmitz, CTO of MEN Mikro Elektronik, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Born in 1959 in Nuremberg, Schmitz graduated in communications engineering in 1981 at the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Hochschule, Nuremberg. He established MEN Mikro Elektronik with two co-founders in 1982 and since that time has been CTO, a role in which he has used to define the technological orientation of the company during the past 30 years.

Nigel Forrester, European head of development for embedded computing at Emerson Network Power, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. In his current role with the embedded computing business of Embedded Network Power, Forrester is responsible for market development of embedded computer products across market sectors.

Chris Hills, founder and CTO of Phaedrus Systems, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Phaedrus Systems, which has been around in some form or other as a vehicle for Hills’ extra-employment activities since the 1970s, became his full time activity in 2005 as he set it up as specialist company in safety-critical and high-reliability embedded systems. It is a distributor for a range of development tools and provides access to consultants and other expertise.

Alfred Hesener, European marketing director at Fairchild Semiconductor, talks to Steve Rogerson in our series of interviews for CIEonline. Hesener joined Fairchild Semiconductor in April 2005 as marketing director for Europe, a newly created position. He is based in Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany, and joined Fairchild from Infineon, where he was senior manager of technical marketing for power semiconductors and control ICs for power conversion.