Management
David Hamilton, CEO
David has been Chief Executive of ATEEDA since co-founding it in 2006. He has built excellent management and technical teams and led the company through its funding rounds and innovative technology deployment. He continues to strengthen and deepen relationships with IDMs and Fabless semiconductor companies, cutting their analog test costs. ATEEDA has developed EDA tools and IP for analog BIST which greatly simplify test development and decimate the substantial test costs for mixed signal devices.
Prior to this, David held roles in a diverse mix of electronics companies and academia since graduating from Edinburgh University. In three decades in the electronics industry, his roles have encompassed designer, design manager and test consultant. The companies have ranged from start-ups like Sefab through to multinationals like Honeywell. He holds a PhD in Neural Networks and several patents, including the core patent that successful wireless-based seismic data-acquisition company Vibtech was based on, along with several others in the field of analog test.
Bill Buckie, CFO
Bill combines a background in life sciences research and a wealth of commercial & financial experience. Between 2004-2006 he has assisted several SMEs to develop their business plans and raise start-up and development finance (equity, bank finance and R&D grants), usually in the role as a part-time Finance Director. He is currently also a Director of Cascade Technologies Ltd and part time interim CFO at XCalibre Communications. During 2001-2004 he was CFO at Photonic Materials Ltd where he helped raise over £10m in VC equity, over £1m in R&D grants and a £1.4m RSA award. Prior to that he was Vice-President of Finance at Pharmagene plc from 1997-2001 where he led 3 private equity rounds (totalling over £13m) and was a key member of the IPO team listing Pharmagene on the LSE in July 2000 raising over £42m in the process. Bill trained with PriceWaterhouse Coopers in Cambridge, completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1986 and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
John Colin Adams, Non-Executive Chairman
Since July 2006, Colin has been Director of commercialisation for The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He joined Digital Equipment Corporation in the US in 1979, where he became the Software Engineering Manager responsible for a major part of the VAX/VMS Operating System development. He returned to the UK in 1983 leading the Office Automation Software Engineering Business Group and the ALL-in-1 product line.
In 1986 he helped found the quick-turn, low-volume ASIC provider, European Silicon Structures (ES2), followed by the EDA start-up EuCad which he merged into Cadence in 1991. In 2000 he moved to Cadence's Electronic Design Services arm which was being prepared to spinout as TALITY. He held General Manager positions for several of the divisions within that business, becoming the VP/GM for the worldwide business and eventually merging that back into Cadence. From the mid 1990s Colin was also closely involved in Project ALBA with Scottish Enterprise.
Malcolm Penn, Non-Executive Director
Malcolm Penn is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Future Horizons, a leading semiconductor industry analyst, established in April 1989. Mr Penn has almost 50 years experience covering all aspects of the semiconductor and electronics industry including new business development, management, manufacturing, marketing and design.
Prior to establishing Future Horizons, Mr Penn was Vice President and Director of European Operations for Dataquest (now Gartner), responsible for establishing and running all of its European research operations. Previously he was Manager of Component Engineering for ITT Europe (now Alcatel) and prior to that held various operations and marketing management positions with the worldwide ITT Semiconductor Group (now Micronas and General Signal), starting with TTL logic, then MOS LSI, worldwide DRAM Business Group Manager and finally Executive Director of ITT’s UK-based front and back-end semiconductor operations.
Prior to ITT Semiconductors, he was a systems design engineer at Venner Electronics, a UK company specialising in the design and development of electronic measurement instrumentation. Mr Penn studied Electronics Engineering at London’s Southbank University in 1962, graduating with an Honours degree in 1966 during which time he worked his way through college as a professional blues and rock drummer.