As a founder of IC Resources, I have been deeply embedded (see what I did there…) in the semiconductor industry since 1999. My goal has always been to be a valuable contributor to the ‘deep tech’ community. I hope I’ve stayed true to this aim over the last 25 years. Examples: Previously, I created, managed, collated and submitted to government the research that led to a number of semiconductor skills being added to the UK Skills Shortage List. Currently, I’m the chairman of UKESF.org. UKESF ‘s remit is to encourage students to study electronics, as well as support them once they have made that wise choice.

I’m an Angel investor in a wide range of early-stage companies. Having previously been quite broad in my investments; I’m now keeping my powder dry for semiconductor start-ups and so have volunteered to curate SiliconCatalystAngels.UK.

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I have a background in managing and opening restaurants with annual revenue of over £1 million. I worked for several years with Jamie Oliver's Italian restaurants, including the training for the launch of Jamie's Italian on Royal Caribbeans new ship Quantum of the Seas. I was part of the start up team for Ole & Steen UK as Deputy General Manager, before assisting in the opening of two more profitable bakeries as General Manager.

Winner of E4 School of Performing Arts.

Sean Redmond has nearly 40 years of experience in the semiconductor and software industries. Starting his career as a chip designer, he led two market leading design teams. Firstly in digital stereo sound for television and then the first embedded mobile phone chip with VLSI technology. Sean was VP Europe for Verisity Design Inc, taking them from a standing start to over 160 customer sites throughout Europe in 5 years. He instigated and led the strategic partnership with Arm, fueling its meteoric rise and successful IPO. Following their acquisition by Cadence, Sean became VP & GM of Cadence EMEA, doubling its business in 3 years. As VP WW Sales and Marketing for ARC, he helped turn its cash flow positive, leading to the eventual sale to Synopsys. Sean, a Managing Partner at SiliconCatalyst.UK, has recently worked closely with the UK government on industrial digital strategy, co-chairing the ElecTech council and became a core member of the Secretary of State’s industrial digital leadership team. In 2021, Sean single handedly launched SiliconCatalyst.UK, bringing several years of successful Silicon Valley semiconductor startup incubation and acceleration knowledge to the UK semiconductor startup community. Sean has a BSc(hons), MSc EE from Kings College, London and MBA from Henley Management College.

Mr. Russell Haggar is a Co-Founder & serves as Executive Chair at VyperCore. He also co-founded Xsilon and served as its Chief Executive Officer. He is also an Angel Investor. He was previously a Partner at Esprit Capital Partners and Prelude Ventures. Russell has been active in the high-tech commercial industry for well over 20 years, graduating from deep technical roles into commercial and operational leadership activities and including a productive six-year spell as a venture capital principal. Former companies include Element 14, Marconi, Madge Networks, 3Way Networks, Sagentia, XMOS, SiConnect, Prelude Ventures and DFJ Esprit. Russell is responsible for business development, marketing and product management activities.

Henry has 40 years of international senior leadership experience in commercial, R&D (HW &SW) and high-volume manufacturing roles within the semiconductor industry. In addition to his role at Silicon Catalyst UK, he serves as an advisor to technology start-ups.

Henry is passionate about building highly innovative, productive and motivated teams within both corporate and start-up environments, and has always been driven by a desire to constantly look for ways in which things can be done better – whether this be around design flows, program management methodologies or business models.

Starting his career designing memories at Mitsubishi in Japan, Henry spent >25 years leading multi-national R&D projects and business organisations within STMicroelectronics. As founding CEO of Blu Wireless Technology, Henry built the company into an award-winning supplier of millimetre wave semiconductors and system solutions for multi-Gigabit 5G communication.

Henry has an MA in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Cambridge University and 4 patents.

Ross has 30 years of international experience in a range of multi-national and startup IC and EDA companies with experience ranging from high-speed bipolar process and component design (ESD protection) through integrated circuits (Bluetooth, WiFi, DECT) to software systems (Connected Vehicles) and cloud based software products. Ross has held roles in pure research and development (CTO of a software tool startup), services (Cadence VCAD) and technical sales. In all of these roles Ross has been drawn to either working with or supporting startup companies and is continually excited by getting the next great idea off the ground with a team of like minded individuals, by working smart as well as hard.

For almost the last decade Ross has been a technical evaluator of funding proposals for commercialisation funds and disruptive technology funds.

Ross has a PhD in semiconductor physics (III-V compounds) from Imperial College, London and 3 patents.