James D. Y. Collier

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]

James Collier

FRS FREng
Collier in 2016
BornDecember 1958 (age 64)[1]
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
AwardsMacRobert Award
Scientific career
Institutions

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. "James Digby Yarlet Collier". GOV.UK. Companies House.
  2. 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. "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. "James Digby Yarlet Collier: Chief Technology Officer, Neul Ltd". New York City: Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 24 May 2016.
  6. 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. Anon (2017). "Dr Philip O'Donovan FREng: Angel investor". raeng.org.uk. London: Royal Academy of Engineering.
  8. Kirk, Kate; Cotton, Charles (2012). The Cambridge Phenomenon: 50 years of innovation and enterprise. London: Third Millennium Publishing. ISBN 9781906507527.
  9. "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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