James Collier | |
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 Collier in 2016 | |
| Born | December 1958 (age 65) [1] |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Awards | MacRobert Award |
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James Digby Yarlet Collier (born December 1958) is a British physicist and engineer. He was the chief technology officer of Neul Limited. [2] Previously, he held several technical and executive positions at Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), UbiNetics, Cambridge Consultants and Schlumberger [3] [4] [5]
Collier was born in December 1958. [1] He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics. [4] [ when? ]
Collier co-founded CSR as a corporate spin-off from Cambridge Consultants Limited with a group of eight other people including Glenn Collinson, Phil O'Donovan, [6] Jonathan Kimmitt, Carl Orsborn, Ian Sabberton, Justin Penfold, Robert Young and Graham Pink. [7] He served as CTO of CSR which was acquired by Qualcomm in 2015. [5] Using short-range wireless technology, CSR became a major supplier of integrated circuit designs for Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi. [7] As a fabless manufacturing company, CSR created the first production ready, single chip, CMOS implementation of the Bluetooth standard [8] by putting a radio transmitter, microprocessor and baseband on a single integrated circuit. [7] The techniques developed are now commonplace and included in many consumer wireless devices. [9]
Between 1984 and 1999, Collier held executive and technical positions at Cambridge Consultants. Prior to 1984, Collier held a number of executive and technical positions at Schlumberger. [8] Collier also served as director UbiNetics IP Ltd from 2005. [1]
In 2010, Collier set up Neul Limited with Glenn Collinson with £8 million in initial investment to exploit machine to machine communication in the weightless wireless communications market. [7] Neul was based in Cambridge Science Park and developed wireless network technology to enable the use of the white space spectrum. [1] [2] [10] Neul had a change of management in 2013 after Collier was ousted by the investors. [11] Neul was not successful in commercialising weightless technology [12] and was later acquired by Huawei in 2014 for $25 million USD. [2]
In 2005, Collier won the MacRobert Award with his CSR colleagues John Hodgson, Phil O'Donovan, [6] Glenn Collinson and Chris Ladas for their work on Bluecore. [13] [14] [15] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016 [9] and is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). [4]
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