James Collier

FRS FREng
Collier in 2016
BornDecember 1958 (age 65)[1]
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
AwardsMacRobert Award
Scientific career
Institutions

James Digby Yarlet Collier FRS FREng[2] (born December 1958) is a British physicist and engineer. He was the chief technology officer of Neul Limited.[3] Previously, he held several technical and executive positions at Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), UbiNetics, Cambridge Consultants and Schlumberger[4][5][6]

Education

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.[5]

Career

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,[7] Jonathan Kimmitt, Carl Orsborn, Ian Sabberton, Justin Penfold, Robert Young and Graham Pink.[8] He served as CTO of CSR which was acquired by Qualcomm in 2015.[6] Using short-range wireless technology, CSR became a major supplier of integrated circuit designs for Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi.[8] As a fabless manufacturing company, CSR created the first production ready, single chip, CMOS implementation of the Bluetooth standard[9] by putting a radio transmitter, microprocessor and baseband on a single integrated circuit.[8] The techniques developed are now commonplace and included in many consumer wireless devices.[2]

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.[9] 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.[8] Neul was based in Cambridge Science Park and developed wireless network technology to enable the use of the white space spectrum.[1][3][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.[3]

Awards and honours

In 2005, Collier won the MacRobert Award with his CSR colleagues John Hodgson, Phil O'Donovan,[7] 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[2] and is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "James Digby Yarlet Collier". GOV.UK. Companies House.
  2. 1 2 3 Anon (2016). "Mr James Collier FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 24 May 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. 1 2 3 "Neul.com: The Internet of Everything". Archived from the original on 8 February 2011.
  4. ↑ Dominic White (10 May 2006). "CSR duo in £9m share sell-off". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 24 May 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 "James Digby Yarlet Collier: Chief Technology Officer, Neul Ltd". New York City: Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 24 May 2016.
  6. 1 2 Anon (2 June 2010). "James Collier to leave CSR to start new venture". Cambridge: Cambridge News. Archived from the original on 24 May 2016.
  7. 1 2 Anon (2017). "Dr Philip O'Donovan FREng: Angel investor". raeng.org.uk. London: Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Kirk, Kate; Cotton, Charles (2012). The Cambridge Phenomenon: 50 years of innovation and enterprise. London: Third Millennium Publishing. ISBN 9781906507527.
  9. 1 2 "2004 World Technology Awards Winners & Finalists: James Collier". wtn.net. Archived from the original on 30 January 2015.
  10. ↑ James Collier, Co-Founder of Neul Ltd on YouTube, Cambridge Judge Business School
  11. ↑ Fitchard, Kevin (15 April 2013). "Icera founder Stan Boland leaves Nvidia to head up U.K. wireless startup Neul". gigaom.com. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  12. ↑ "Neul's legacy: three Weightless specs and Huawei's '4.5G'". Rethink. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  13. ↑ Anon (2005). "Bluecore work wins CSR Engineers £50,000 prize". Piscataway, New Jersey: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ieee.org. Archived from the original on 24 May 2016.
  14. ↑ Anon (2005). "iPod and Bluetooth lead to prizes". London: BBC News.
  15. ↑ Anon (3 June 2005). "Wireless wizards scoop UK's biggest innovation prize". London: Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015.
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