Tom joined the team as Chairman in 2017, bringing commercial experience gained from 25yrs in the semiconductor industry. 

Tom was with ARM Ltd for 17 years where he held key positions through the companies’ exciting growth periods. His roles included driving ARM processor use in wireless, as the digital cellular standards emerged and then later wider market adoption. He served as the General Manager of the Processor division through the development and deployment of the 64bit architecture products and was ultimately responsible for global commercial operations and product licensing. Tom has also worked in semiconductor distribution and prior to ARM for Hitachi Europe in their microcontroller business.

Tom graduated with a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and gained his doctorate in engineering from the University of Portsmouth in 1992, where he researched parallel digital signal processing techniques and their application to complex radar data.

Rob is an industry authority on channel coding, having gained his PhD in Wireless Communications in 2007 from the University of Southampton. He has published over 100 IEEE papers and resources on the holistic design of signal processing algorithms and hardware implementations for error correction decoders, including Turbo, LDPC and Polar decoders.

Rob’s research has reframed the industry debate around channel coding for 5G and significantly changed the direction of the 3GPP’s RAN1 working group. In spite of long-standing myths to the contrary, this work has shown that both turbo and polar decoders can benefit from arbitrarily high degrees of parallel processing, without compromising hardware efficiency. This has enabled significantly improved throughput and latency, without requiring excessing chip area or power consumption. This breakthrough has formed the foundation upon which AccelerComm^® has been built.

Drew’s commercial experience spans over 34 years in the semiconductor industry working for both startups and multinational organisations. He worked at ARM for 12 years, initially in sales and then their licensing organisation where he became SVP Commercial Operations. 

His responsibilities in this role focussed on the management and development of all licensing business models and revenue growth plans for each of ARM’s business lines. Working for the world’s leading IP company provided a unique opportunity to work with many of the industry’s leading technology companies across all key segments and geographic regions; personally developing a wide commercial insight on what makes for a successful IP business.

Based in the Bay Area, California, Stuart joins AccelerComm as VP North America. Stuart spent 17 years at ARM, leading Sales for EMEA, Asia and globally as SVP W.W Sales during ARM’s period of accelerated business and revenue growth.

For the last 4 years he has been working with Bay Area & European startups in the areas of Machine Learning, eMobility and semiconductors. Stuart is a Chartered Electrical & Electronic Engineer and has a BSc in Engineering from Portsmouth Polytechnic, England.

An experienced VP Engineer with 20+ years at arm focussing on hardware and software IP.  An engineering leader with considerable experience in the semiconductor, intellectual property and software sector. Experienced in partner and customer relationships; strategy development and implementation; managing and scaling cross-functional and geographically diverse engineering teams; mentoring and developing engineers.

Sean is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, an alumnus of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He joined AccelerComm^® in December 2023 bringing 20 year of experience of senior financial roles across a number of telecommunications and technology businesses.

Sean brings expertise and a strong track record of driving growth and profitability, scaling up both privately backed and listed companies. He has had successful roles in early-stage and established companies, with a great deal of international exposure, including US and Australia.