CEO, TechWorks
As the CEO at TechWorks, Charles drives collaboration between industry, academia and government to promote the Deep Tech sector and help to grow new high technology businesses across the UK.
Charles is also a mentor and advisor with Silicon Catalyst and Deeptech Labs. Previously, he has held various executive roles in GM, product line, go-to-market, business development, corporate strategy, and new business venturing at HiSilicon, u-blox, ARM, Acorn Computers and Motorola and has been instrumental in two successful start-ups.
With 30 years of experience in VLSI chip design, embedded systems, IoT, computing and wireless communications (2G, 3G, LTE, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth) Charles is the author of more than ten papers and books and holds a master’s degree in electronic & information engineering from Southampton University.