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:
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