Lisboa,
3 e 4 de Maio
Ian Page
Ian Page received his B.Sc. in Electrical
Engineering in 1970 from King's College, London University. He received
his M.Sc. in Systems Engineering two years later from City University,
London. Initially he worked in the computer industry (ICL and Plessey),
working in the areas of real-time and parallel systems. In an unplanned
move, he became an academic at Queen Mary College, University of London in
1976. He moved to the Computing Laboratory of Oxford University in 1984
where he became Reader in Computing Science.
Starting in 1990, he founded a new research group at Oxford working in the
area of hardware compilation. He created the 'Handel' methodology for
designing electronic systems. This gives software designers, who are much
more easily trained and recruited than electronics engineers, the ability
to design complete systems containing both hardware and software elements,
quickly, reliably, and effectively. The Handel design approach, is also a
natural partner to FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) chip technology.
Together, the two technologies enable complete systems incorporating
hardware and software elements to be realised in minutes from a
software-only design.
In 1996, Ian transferred the Handel technology from Oxford University into
a spinout company, Celoxica Ltd, which sells it commercially, mostly to
international blue-chip companies. The company currently has sustained
revenue growth of 25% p.a. and is a world-leading supplier of System Level
Design Tools to the electronics industry. Ian was a key figure in raising
over $60m of funding for Celoxica and is still retained as a consultant by
the company.
Since 2003 his major role is Business Development Director of Seven Spires
Investments, an early-stage, high-tech investment fund established with
£25m of private money. He manages investments of up £1 million per year
per company and sits on the boards of most investee companies.
Ian is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial
College, University of London. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence at the
University of Reading, and undertakes occasional independent consulting
activities.
You can contact Ian at ian.page@sevenspires.co.uk