Experience

Kernel Capital

• Ireland
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner Emeritus, Kernel Capital

  • 2003 - Present

  Belfast Northern Ireland As Emeritus Partner I work with the Kernel team on some of our projects. I do occasional due diligence on prospects to help the MD and staff to decide on investments in Kernel. www.kernel-capital.com



Queen's University Belfast

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education

• Honorary Professor

  • 2009 - Present

  After many years as a visiting Prof and/or Professorial Fellow, I am now an Honorary Prof. in Electrical Engineering

• Honorary Professor Elec Eng

  • 2000 - 2017

  Northern Ireland



McCaughan Associates

• Managing Partner

  • Mar 2001 - Present

  McCaughan Associates is a Technical and Business consultancy



Queen's University of Belfast

• Hon.Prof.

  • 1977 - Present

  Belfast, Northern Ireland I have been in succession, Visiting Professor, Professorial Fellow, and Honorary Professor (current)



Trireme Partners

• Board Director

  • 2016 - 2017

  UK and USA



Member of Committees at IoD

• Member

  • 2002 - 2017



Northern Ireland Photographic Association

• President

  • Apr 2010 - Apr 2012



UK Home Office Science Advisory Committee (HOSAC)

• Co-Chair

  • Sep 2004 - Sep 2010

  Home Office, London UK I was initially a member of the UK Police Science and Technology Strategy group, then a member of HOSAC, the for 3 years co-Chair with the Permanent Secretary, Sir David Normington.



DHSSPS ( N Ireland Health Service)

• Independent Board Member

  • 2006 - 2010

  Member of Main Board of the N Ireland Health Service



CDT Ltd

• President

  • 2000 - 2001

  Ran the company for a period in 2000, till moved to working with one of the VC owners on fund raising and VC



Nortel Technology

• Chief Scientist

  • 1988 - 2000

  top level R&D strategy and planning



STC Telecommunications LTD (UK)

• Director (NITEC)

  • 1988 - 1993

  Northern Ireland Formed, designed built and staffed a new Telecomms R&D organisation, built the premises, hired the first 200+staff, nursed it through growth to a premier R&D centre in Telecomms software and hardware run to a tight budget with an excellent record of on-time top quality dellivery



GEC Electronic Devices Ltd

• Technical Director

  • 1986 - 1988

  GEDL was the amalgamation under Martin Jay of a number of the Components companies in GEC under one Group, for which I was the Technical Director and included EEV (Electro-Optics) for which I was the Technical Director



Marconi Electronic Devices Ltd (MEDL)

• Technical Director

  • 1985 - 1988

  Research Director then Technical Director



GEC Hirst Research Centre

• Assistant Director

  • Jan 1981 - Mar 1985

  Manager of Solid State Devices Research Laboratories, then Assistant Director



Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

• Senior Principal Scientific Officer

  • 1974 - 1981

  SPSO in Electronics Division, Ran the CCD/Silicon Devices Research and SPEL doing Signal Processing devices for Sonar, Radar, Imaging, IR Cameras etc



Bell Telephone Laboratories

• Member of Technical Staff

  • Oct 1968 - Apr 1974

  Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, in Exploratory Semiconductor Technology and other departments. Worked on MOS/semiconductor technology and devices, pioneering work on effects of plasma etching on MOS devices.