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Aspex Semiconductor is a fabless chip company, developing System-on-Chip HD video transcoding solutions for high volume consumer electronics applications.

Founded in 1999, Aspex specialises in the development of software programmable media processors, based around its ASProCore DSP fabric.

Aspex ’s flexible, software-defined platforms deliver three significant business benefits:

Faster time to market
Lower risk
Reduced development cost

Headquarted in the UK, Aspex's Engineering team includes system architects, SoC designers, embedded software developers, and video compression algorithm specialists.

The engineering team is complemented by an experienced Sales, Marketing, Applications and Support organisation, distributed across North America and the UK.

The core engineering team of Aspex previously founded Aspex Microsystems, a spin-out from Brunel University, which developed the ASProCore architecture over 5 generations of silicon.

Aspex developed the 6th and 7th generation ASProCore architectures for its "Linedancer" family of Extreme Processors, launched in 2004, which have been successfully targeted at professional image processing applications, such as Machine Vision, Digital Cinema & Studio/Broadcast Video Compression.

Aspex's products are supported by a range of development tools, libraries, reference designs, training and support services to help our customers get to market.

Investors

SPARK Ventures plc

SPARK Ventures PLC is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. Formed in 1999, SPARK has built up a portfolio of investments in the technology, media and telecom sectors (TMT) ranging from enterprise software to digital media and semiconductors.

As an investor, SPARK works closely with management teams providing active strategic and commercial support. Our current focus is on early stage investments in digital media, software applications and communications technology with the objective of developing significant capital growth over the medium term.

Nigel Horne, Non-Executive Chairman
Dr. Horne was previously Director/Partner of GEC companies, STC plc, ICL plc, A B Dick Inc, Alcatel Ltd, LSI Logic Ltd, FI Group plc and KPMG; founding Director of Foresight VCT plc and earlier director of Abingworth Management Ltd (VC). Nigel has an EE University of Bristol, Ph.D. Mathematics University of Cambridge.


		Paul Greenfield, CEO Paul Greenfield has extensive commercial and sector experience in building companies in Europe from near start-up to substantial levels. Paul previously held positions as CEO Procession plc; VP/Head of European Operations: Calico Commerce, Avanti Corporation, Cadence Design Systems, Redwood Design Automation, Sales Director Daisy Systems , District Manager Intel Corp.


		Philip Maskell, CFO Philip Maskell was previously Finance Director and Company Secretary of the Montinex Group, an Investment Director of Cinven Ltd and a Chartered Accountant with KPMG. Philip has 20 years experience with venture capital backed companies.


		John Lancaster, CTO John Lancaster is a co-founder of the company and serves as CTO. He holds 19 patents on massively parallel processing array controllers, and 11 issued or pending in related areas. Previously, John was a founder of Digisoft Ltd, a hardware/software design company. John holds a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and an M.Sc from Brunel University.


		Ian Jalowiecki, Vice President, Engineering Dr Jalowiecki is a co-founder of the company. He has successfully managed numerous major chip design projects using a variety of manufacturing technologies and methodologies. Ian has an extensive background in international academic research and project management and was formerly a Lecturer at Brunel University as well as a Principal Technologist GEC Avionics.


		John Elliott, Vice President, Sales Prior to joining Aspex, John Elliott held a senior management position with Simplex Solutions as VP/Head European Operations growing the company to $300 million with a successful listing on NASDAQ in 2002. Previous Senior Management roles include : Consulting Services Director, European Business Unit Director, N. Europe Director, UK General Manager Cadence Design Systems. John also built significant sales revenue in Cadnetix, Dazix and Racal Redac.


		Peter Harverson, Vice President, Corporate Development Peter Harverson has spent many years in management positions within the semiconductor industry experience, most recently as Director, Services Sales EMEA for Sun. Previously Peter was the European VP of Cadence Design Systems and a Regional Manager with Intel.


		Raj Parekh, Executive Advisor to the Board Raj Parekh has served as Chairman/Board member/Executive Advisor for more than 15 public and private companies. Before founding his current company Redwood Venture Partners, Raj held positions as CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Sun Microsystems, as well as VP and General Manager of Java Products for Sun Microsystems Microelectronics. Prior to Sun, he was VP/ General Manager at Silicon Graphics and spent 5 years with Data General and Fairchild Camera and Instruments.

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