CEO & Co-Founder, Jim Mayock
Dr Jim Mayock is CEO and Co-founder of VIPER RF. Previously he was the RF Product Line Manager at Filtronic Compound Semiconductors Ltd in the UK. This involved business development by working with internal and external customers to define new product areas and to access new applications through existing products. Between 2003 and 2007, Dr Mayock was Head of MMIC Design at the same facility and completed advanced MMIC designs and product development in the cellular, wireless infrastructure, point-to-point and defence markets. He formed a team of fifteen MMIC designers working across these areas. Prior to this role, he was working in Central R&D at Filtronic plc, investigating new MMIC designs and module developments in the RF and microwave field. Dr Mayock worked between 1997 and 1999 as a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds investigating advanced automobile radars for collision avoidance systems. He worked on his PhD between the years of 1993 to 1996, investigating millimetre-wave oscillator design techniques at the University of Leeds. He studied for his BEng between 1990 and 1993 in Electronic Engineering at the University of Leeds. Dr Mayock has published in excess of 20 papers.
COO & Co-Founder, Simon Chan
Dr Simon Chan is COO and Co-founder of VIPER RF. Previously he was Customer Account Manager for High Volume Products at Filtronic Compound Semiconductors. At Filtronic he also held the roles of Product Engineering Manager and Programme Manager where he delivered GaAs RF products into cellular handsets, infrastructure, point-to-point and defence markets. He was Product Engineering Manager at Agilent Technologies where he successfully introduced and delivered InP optoelectronic datacomm components during the boom and downturn of 1997-2003. Prior to this, he developed silicon IGBT power devices at GEC Plessey Semiconductors. He graduated from University of Glasgow with a BEng (Hons), and holds MSc. (Distinction) in Microwaves & Optoelectronics & PhD in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from University College London. He is a Chartered Engineer and has published in excess of 20 papers.
Director of Business Development, David Smith
With over 40 years experience in the microwave and semiconductor industries, David is internationally renowned in the hi-tech sectors that are his domain. His focus has been in business management in compound semiconductor technologies and markets and David has been instrumental in the emergence of GaAs technologies and products in the UK with his roles at Plessey Three-Five Group, GEC-Marconi Materials Technology, Filtronic Compound Semiconductors and RFMD UK. More recently David has been working as a business mentor and coach focussing exclusively in the hi-tech sector where David has capitalised on his science background, and his early career training in electronics and process engineering. David started with VIPER RF in 2010 and is now working exclusively in support of the business in a business development and commercial management role.
Non-Executive Director, Wolfgang Bösch
In March 2010 Professor Dr. Wolfgang Bösch has joined the Graz University of Technology in Austria to establish a new Institute for Microwave and Photonic Engineering. Prior he has been the CTO of the Advanced Digital Institute in the UK, a not for profit organisation to promote research activities. He has also been the Director of Business and Technology Integration of RFMD UK. For almost 10 years he has been with Filtronic plc as CTO of Filtronic Integrated Products and Director of the Global Technology Group. Prior to joining Filtronic, he held positions in the European Space Agency (ESA) working on amplifier linearization techniques, MPR-Teltech in Canada working on MMIC technology projects and the Corporate R&D group of M/A-COM in Boston where he worked on advanced topologies for high efficiency power amplifiers. For four years he was with DaimlerChrysler Aerospace in Germany, working on T/R Modules for airborne radar. Dr. Bösch received his engineering degrees from the Technical University of Vienna and Graz in Austria. He finalised his MBA with distinction at Bradford University School of Management in 2004. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IET. He published more than 70 papers and holds 4 patents.
