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 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:
Non exec director at small Internet ISP (KBNet), chairperson of UK's Time to Market Association, and non exec director at fintech service company Earningscast
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