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Aspex is a Fabless Semiconductor company that specialises in technology for encoding/compression of HD video. We supply our own chips to customers, we license our IP and we supply design services - offering a complete route to silicon for customers requiring the highest video quality, support for multiple standard codecs and the most flexible user-programming environment.

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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:

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.

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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.

Peter Harverson, Chairman
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.


		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.


		Andrew Carruthers Andrew is Chief Executive Officer of SPARK Ventures. He was previously a Director of NewMedia Investors responsible for capital raising and corporate finance for a range of technology businesses including Lastminute.com. Prior to that he was involved in the operational management of technology and finance as a Director or Founder of online information, TV and digital distribution companies in the US and UK. Andrew qualified as an account with KPMG.

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