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Jim Derbyshire is a Serial Entrepreneur, CEO, Angel Investor, Mentor and Board Member. Jim started as an engineer and moved through engineering management, management consultancy and venture capital to the start up world for the last 18 years. He has been CEO for 16 years at Symbionics (Cambridge, UK) and SiGe Semiconductor (Ottawa, Canada) and has co-founded or been actively involved with over ten start ups. Jim has experienced growing businesses in many business models, part time “student”, low capital “bootstrap”, Angel, Corporate and VC backed, raising over $100M of finance and selling several companies during his career. He has worked in multiple countries for large (ITT), medium (Racal, Decca, PA Consulting) and start up enterprises operating in Systems, Products, Components, Software and IP Licensing and Management and Technical Consulting Fields. Jim has marketed and sold products and services in US, China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Jim has a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Kingston University in the UK, is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the I.E.T., participated in I.E.E.E. 802.11 and E.T.S.I. DECT, CT2 and GSM standards groups and has several granted patents.