Our leaders share a common vision of making our interactions with technology more natural, intuitive and engaging.
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
Mark Lippett
CEO & President
Mark leads XMOS. His main focus is to encourage innovation, enable profitable growth and look to the future.
Mark joined XMOS in 2008 and held the roles of COO and VP Engineering before taking the helm as CEO. Mark has extensive experience across the electronics industry, with involvement in both blue-chip and start-up companies.
Mark Lippett
CEO & President
Rohit Malhotra
Executive VP Global Sales
Rohit is a semiconductor veteran with more than 33 years’ experience of working across applications, marketing, and sales with global companies. During this time, he has nurtured key relationships across the semiconductor industry. While passionate about work, in his spare time, Rohit enjoys cars, golf and gadgets. Mark joined XMOS in 2008 and held the roles of COO and VP Engineering before taking the helm as CEO. Mark has extensive experience across the electronics industry, with involvement in both blue-chip and start-up companies.
Rohit Malhotra
Executive VP Global Sales
Henk Muller
CTO
Henk provides the strategic direction for our future developments in Silicon devices, applications, and underpinning technologies.Mark leads XMOS. His main focus is to encourage innovation, enable profitable growth and look to the future.
Henk Muller
CTO
Anna Parlour
Head of People and Culture
Anna joined XMOS in 2022 and brings extensive experience in Human Resources having worked within rapidly expanding international organisations across a variety of sectors in pharmaceutical, communications and FMCG.
Anna is responsible for enabling XMOS to continue to be a great place to work.
Anna Parlour
Head of People and Culture
Sunny Suen
Senior VP Operations
Sunny leads the factory, his main focus is to run supply chain, look after our vendor partnerships and manage production quality.
Sunny joined in 2009 and prior to that held senior engineering, test management and field application positions across the industry.Mark leads XMOS. His main focus is to encourage innovation, enable profitable growth and look to the future.
Sunny Suen
Senior VP Operations
Kevin Dewar
VP Hardware
Kevin leads the development of Silicon devices, and the Boards used to demonstrate their capabilities.
Kevin joined XMOS in 2018 and has extensive experience in start-up and blue-chip semiconductor companies, largely in chip architecture, design, and verification, with a focus on CPUs and programmable hardware.
Kevin Dewar
VP Hardware
Ivan Zlatkov
Director, Finance
Ivan Zlatkov
Director, Finance
BOARD
Bill Elmore
Bill co-founded Foundation Capital in 1995. Investing primarily in cloud applications and infrastructure, he operates on the belief that substantial, sustainable companies are the result of matching technology and market opportunity with the right entrepreneur and management team.
Bill has a BSEE and an MSEE from Purdue University, and an MBA from the Stanford GSB. But he learns the most from the entrepreneurs, whom he helps to build strong organizations from the ground up.
Foundation Capital
XMOS Chairman & Director
Alan Duncan
Alan has been in the venture capital industry for more than twenty years, initially through establishing a corporate venturing fund for Ferranti and then with Foreign & Colonial Ventures, Newmarket Venture Capital and Prelude Ventures. He joined DFJ Esprit when it was formed in 2006. Alan is responsible for a portfolio of Draper Esprit’s electronics investments including Phyworks, Lime Microsystems, SiConnect, XMOS and DisplayLink. His previous investments have included Alphamosaic (sold to Broadcom) and nCipher (IPO on LSE).
Alan has an electronic engineering background and gained his industrial experience in computer systems with Ferranti plc. Alan is a past member of the European Venture Capital Association High Tech Committee and lecturer on the EVCA’s venture capital professional training courses.
DFJ Espirit
XMOS Board Member
Hongquan Jiang
Hongquan is a partner and “Deep Tech” investor at Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC). In the last decade, he has led multiple successful investments in the area of IoT, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and Automotive in Europe, US and China. Prior to RBVC, Hongquan worked at across Bosch, amassing broad experience in the automotive and electronic industries. He holds a doctoral and a diploma degree in physics from the Technical University Berlin, Germany.
Robert Bosch VC
XMOS Board Member
Hitesh Mehta
Hitesh is a co-founder of XMOS. He has extensive experience as a venture capital investor in European high technology companies as well as significant operational experience as CEO.
Prior to Acacia Capital Partners – successful exits include Shazam (acquired by Apple) and Solarflare (acquired by Xilinx), Hitesh was a General Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners Limited. At Amadeus, Hitesh served on the firm’s Investment Committee and was involved in some of Amadeus’ most successful investments, including Entropic (acquired by Microsoft), Element 14 (acquired by Broadcom), and Whereonearth (subsequently acquired by Yahoo).
Hitesh was awarded a scholarship from IBM and obtained an Honours degree in Computer Science from Warwick University.
XMOS Non-Executive Director
XMOS Board Member
Charles Cotton
Charles’ is Founder and Chairman of Cambridge Phenomenon Ltd. He co-authored The Cambridge Phenomenon 50 Years of Innovation and Enterprise and The Cambridge Phenomenon: Global Impact. His focus is on building global hi-tech companies and the development of technology clusters.
An experienced director of public companies, Charles’ specialist areas include strategy, marketing, compensation, board and team building, coupled with the diplomacy and organisational know-how needed to identify and solve problems. He holds a BA Hons in Physics from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
XMOS Non-Executive Director
XMOS Board Member
Jochen Meissner
Jochen has over 25 years of experience of managing technology and machinery companies with significant operational and international expertise.
XMOS Board Member
Mark Lippett
Mark leads XMOS. His main focus is to encourage innovation, enable profitable growth and look to the future.
XMOS CEO & President
ADVISORS
Paul Goodridge
Paul Goodridge has many years’ experience as a CFO in both public and private companies, and international finance management. As CFO of CSR, Goodridge delivered its successful IPO in 2004 and helped grow the company internationally into an $800m revenue business, significantly growing it in value to become a member of the FTSE 250. While working as CFO and then non-exec of GFI Software, he oversaw exits of over $1.5bn.
Goodridge has spent the last half decade as a non-executive director for software companies with a combined exit value of over $800m, and a consultant working with a large European VC.
Ex-CFO GFI Software
Robin Saxby
Sir Robin Keith Saxby was Chief Executive and then Chairman of ARM Holdings, which he built to become a dominant supplier of embedded systems.
Ex-CEO ARM Holdings
David May
David May is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol and founder of XMOS Semiconductor. He served as Chief Technology Officer at XMOS until February 2014.
Professor at University of Bristol
Peter Flach
Peter Flach has been Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bristol since 2003. An internationally leading researcher in the areas of mining highly structured data and the evaluation.
Professor at University of Bristol
Jalal Bagherli
Jalal boasts over 35 years of experience in both public and private semiconductor businesses – most recently as CEO of Dialog Semiconductor, a specialist chip company for mobile and IoT devices – he is well-versed in the nuances of a complex and multifaceted industry that is one of the strongest value-generators world-wide.
Ex-CEO Dialog Semiconductor
Hermann Hauser
In 2015 Hermann was awarded an KBE for services to Engineering and Industry.
Serial Entrepreneur and Co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, Dr Hermann Hauser KBE has wide experience in developing and financing companies in the information technology sector. He has founded and co-founded a significant number of companies across a wide range of technology sectors, including Acorn Computers which spun out ARM.
Among his many accolades, Hermann is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, as well as an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge and Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
Amadeus Capital
