Biographies of the speakers:

Chair: John Snyder, CEO Grapeshot and CfEL Entrepreneur in Residence

Currently John is CEO of the new generation search software company Grapeshot, with offices in Cambridge and London. In 1992, he and Dr Martin Porter spun out the Muscat search technology from the University and as CEO, John built Muscat into a profitable enterprise software business servicing international clients including Reuters, Nokia, the BBC and the Telegraph. Muscat was sold to Dialog in 1997 with John continuing as its chairman and launching Webtop, a new subsidiary of Dialog. He was a founder member of Cambridge Angels, and a founder Director of Enterprise Accelerator, which partnered with NESTA and the DTI to accelerate start-ups. He was also a board member of the East of England Development Agency for five years until 2008.

Speaker: Glenn Collinson Co-Founder and former Director of CSR Plc and
Co-Founder of Neul Ltd

In 1998 Glenn Collinson co-founded Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR Plc) as a start-up project and was a member of the board of directors that managed the growth of CSR through its listing as a public company in 2004 and up until 2007, serving first as marketing director and then as sales director. Prior to CSR, Glenn held positions including senior engineer and then marketing manager at Cambridge Consultants Ltd from 1996 to 1998 and held positions as a design engineer and marketing manager at Texas Instruments Ltd and GmbH from 1989 to 1996. He also worked as a design engineer for Motorola UK Ltd and Racal Research Ltd from 1985 to 1989.

Speaker: Joep van Beurden: Chief Executive Officer, CSR Plc

Joep van Beurden, Chief Executive Officer, was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 1 November 2007. He has over 15 years of experience in managing technology companies in the US and Europe. Prior to joining CSR, Mr van Beurden was Chief Executive of NexWave Inc., a provider of embedded software solutions for the consumer electronics market based in France. Prior to joining CSR, Mr van Beurden was Chief Executive of NexWave Inc., a provider of embedded software solutions for the consumer electronics market based in France. Before joining NexWave, Mr van Beurden held senior positions at Canesta Inc., a fabless semiconductor company in San Jose, California and Philips Components also in San Jose.