jonhudson 

 

Jon Hudson

After working for two semiconductor companies for many years, in 2014, I teamed up with some other UK engineers to create SDRplay Ltd., the popular UK-based manufacturer of wideband SDR radio receivers. I have also  been lucky enough to do some very interesting consultancy projects and meet some amazing people. I am currently Sales and Marketing Director for SDRplay Ltd., and an advisor for Silicon Catalyst , an incubator focused on semiconductor solutions.    

More  background information:

My work in the semiconductor industry was for first forTexas Instruments working in design, marketing and business management for ASIC and mixed-signal telecom products.   Later I joined Cambridge-based Bluetooth Connectivity leader, CSR where I was responsible for PC, Automotive and Consumer products – the bit sold to Qualcomm.  

In 2014, I co-founded SDRplay Ltd. - a wireless SDR manufacturing & software company company - we created the RSP family of Software Defined Radio receivers - see www.sdrplay.com - these are now the most popular mid-range choice for SDR-based communications receivers. All our radios are manufactured here in the UK. Google “SDRplay” to see how popular they have become!

As well as establishing SDRplay, I have enjoyed providing consultancy services (as the Jon Hudson Consultancy) to Affle, ARM Ltd., Dialog Semiconductor, iBiquity, Innovate UK, JP Morgan and Neul Ltd. (the latter was sold to Huawei in 2014)    For Dialog I managed the successful integration of SiTel semiconductor which resulted in Dialog semiconductor successfully entering the Bluetooth Low Energy market in less than 2 years from the acquisition.

Other interesting activities have included:

Why electronics?:

Mesmerised by radio as a teenage radio ham, fell in love with electronics and chose to take one of the first available degree courses in electronics. I graduated but failed to become a radio DJ, by then my favoured career choice! Reluctantly I entered working life as a QA technican at Texas Instruments Bedford and quickly discovered that playing with semiconductors could be a lot more fun than being a DJ.  This was the beginning of a long and enjoyable career in electronics.

Semiconductor Background Summary:

Jon Hudson has over 30 years experience in the semiconductor industry followed by a variety of consultancy roles and co-founder and sales and marketing director of SDRplay Ltd., a privately owned UK SDR radio manufacturing company.  In the noughties, I was senior vice president at UK Bluetooth chip company CSR Ltd., where I was responsible for PC, Automotive and Consumer products, running a PMO and M&A integration, and successfully integrating US GPS technology company SiRF into what was a UK FTSE 250 company.  Starting my career at Texas Instruments in Quality Assurance, I moved into chip design for consumer electronic projects such as teletext and TV remote controls.  In the early eighties I became a project leader for TI’s embryonic European semicustom design group and helped pipe-clean the first generation autolayout CAD systems working as an ex-pat in Dallas Texas. Returning to the UK, I established TI’s European ASIC design centre – a mix of chip designers and CAD engineers as well as taking on marketing responsibilities.  In the early nineties, I became European Linear Telecom product manager responsible growing this business from $6M to $24M which included TI’s first design-ins at Nokia for cellphones.  Later that decade,I took on responsibility for TI’s European technical marketing as well as identifying start-ups for investment either directly of via TI Ventures. My consultancy work has included M&A integration, and business development projects for Dialog Semiconductor, Neul Ltd. (now Huawei) and chairing an IoT consortium for Innovate UK.

 Education:

Jon holds a B.Sc. in Physical Electronics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, and is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Ongoing learning through Amateur Radio - G4ABQ

Contact:

(I enjoy keeping in touch with old colleagues)   My email address is:  jon at jonhudson dot net and phone +44 1223 911 044 or +44 7836 591544

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonhudson

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