James D. Y. Collier Explained

James Collier
Awards:MacRobert Award
Alma Mater:University of Oxford

James Digby Yarlet Collier (born December 1958) is a British physicist and engineer. He was the chief technology officer of Neul Limited. Previously, he held several technical and executive positions at Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), UbiNetics, Cambridge Consultants and Schlumberger[1] [2] [3]

Education

Collier was born in December 1958.[4] He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics.[2]

Career

Collier co-founded CSR as a corporate spin-off from Cambridge Consultants Limited with a group of eight other people including Glenn Collinson, Phil O'Donovan, Jonathan Kimmitt, Carl Orsborn, Ian Sabberton, Justin Penfold, Robert Young and Graham Pink. He served as CTO of CSR which was acquired by Qualcomm in 2015.[3] Using short-range wireless technology, CSR became a major supplier of integrated circuit designs for Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi. As a fabless manufacturing company, CSR created the first production ready, single chip, CMOS implementation of the Bluetooth standard by putting a radio transmitter, microprocessor and baseband on a single integrated circuit. The techniques developed are now commonplace and included in many consumer wireless devices.

Between 1984 and 1999, Collier held executive and technical positions at Cambridge Consultants. Prior to 1984, Collier held a number of executive and technical positions at Schlumberger.[5] Collier also served as director UbiNetics IP Ltd from 2005.[4]

In 2010, Collier set up Neul Limited with Glenn Collinson with £8 million in initial investment to exploit machine to machine communication in the weightless wireless communications market.[6] Neul was based in Cambridge Science Park and developed wireless network technology to enable the use of the white space spectrum.[4] [7] [8] Neul had a change of management in 2013 after Collier was ousted by the investors.[9] Neul was not successful in commercialising weightless technology[10] and was later acquired by Huawei in 2014 for $25 million USD.[7]

Awards and honours

In 2005, Collier won the MacRobert Award with his CSR colleagues John Hodgson, Phil O'Donovan,[11] Glenn Collinson and Chris Ladas for their work on Bluecore.[12] [13] [14] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016[15] and is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160524123003/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2938443/CSR-duo-in-9m-share-sell-off.html. 2016-05-24. CSR duo in £9m share sell-off. The Daily Telegraph. London. Dominic White. 10 May 2006.
  2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160524120819/http://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/people/6256220-james-digby-yarlet-collier. 2016-05-24. James Digby Yarlet Collier: Chief Technology Officer, Neul Ltd. Bloomberg L.P.. New York City.
  3. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160524123433/http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/James-Collier-leave-CSR-start-new-venture/story-22507905-detail/story.html. 2016-05-24. James Collier to leave CSR to start new venture. Cambridge News. Cambridge. 2 June 2010. Anon.
  4. Web site: James Digby Yarlet Collier. Companies House. GOV.UK.
  5. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20150130154016/http://www.wtn.net/2004/bio368.html. 2015-01-30. 2004 World Technology Awards Winners & Finalists: James Collier. wtn.net.
  6. Book: Kirk . Kate . Cotton . Charles . 2012 . The Cambridge Phenomenon: 50 years of innovation and enterprise . London . Third Millennium Publishing . 9781906507527.
  7. Web site: Neul.com: The Internet of Everything. https://web.archive.org/web/20110208175725/http://www.neul.com/. 2011-02-08.
  8. , Cambridge Judge Business School
  9. Web site: Icera founder Stan Boland leaves Nvidia to head up U.K. wireless startup Neul. Fitchard. Kevin. 2013-04-15. gigaom.com. en-US. 2019-11-26.
  10. Web site: Neul's legacy: three Weightless specs and Huawei's '4.5G'. Rethink. en. 2019-11-26.
  11. Web site: Dr Philip O'Donovan FREng: Angel investor. raeng.org.uk. Royal Academy of Engineering. London. Anon. 2017. 10 January 2022. 10 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220110180203/https://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/the-fellowship/new-fellows-2017/fellows/philip-o-donovan. dead.
  12. Web site: 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20160524124045/http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abstractKeywords.jsp?arnumber=1499191. 2016-05-24. Anon. Bluecore work wins CSR Engineers £50,000 prize. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ieee.org. Piscataway, New Jersey.
  13. Web site: iPod and Bluetooth lead to prizes. BBC News. London. Anon. 2005.
  14. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20151210025958/http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2005/June/wireless-wizards-scoop-uks-innovation-prize. 2015-12-10. Wireless wizards scoop UK's biggest innovation prize. Anon. Royal Academy of Engineering. London. 3 June 2005.
  15. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20160524143113/https://royalsociety.org/people/james-collier-12853/ . 2016-05-24 . Mr James Collier FRS . . London . Anon . 2016 . One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

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