Phil O’Donovan, as founding Managing Director, helped grow Cambridge-based CSR plc from a startup of nine cofounders in 1999 into a highly successful FTSE 250 listed fabless semiconductor company employing, in 2015, more than 2,000 people in 23 locations.
Within four years from 1999, CSR became the largest global market supplier of Bluetooth chips with annual revenue of $1billion in 2012 and by 2015 had shipped 4billion chips. CSR was acquired by Qualcomm in September 2015 for $2.5billion.
Phil is an Engineer and a Cambridge-based mentor, director and angel investor in technology startups, a speaker on entrepreneurial topics at universities and business schools and an advisor to organisations wishing to commercialise their IP.
