Phil O'Donovan CSR guru at HVM 10th Summit on success: 'Fertile soil, seeds grow'

30 October 2012

Phil O'Donovan ranks among a super lineup of keynote speakers at #HVM10th - the 10th Anniversary High Value Manufacturing Summit Conference in Cambridge on 14 November. His talk will recall major successes in business from his own experiences and argue that the HVM model espoused at the event is a suitable model for UK business, one that works with or without government strategy.

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Talk Title: "HVM - A suitable model for the UK"

Synopsis

The HVM business model is very suitable for application in the UK as it reaps the fruits of a well-developed educational infrastructure in a way which does not require low cost labour or an abundance of natural resources. The HVM model does, however, require staff with experience gained in global industrial companies both outside the UK and those still remaining in the country. HVM is important to the UK as it creates employment, generates tax revenue and helps to develop and retain expertise in the country. In the right environment, HVM companies will thrive with or without a national industrial strategy.

Biography: Phil O'Donovan

Dr Phil O'Donovan is a co-founder of Cambridge Silicon Radio, the fabless semiconductor company, which became the largest global market supplier of Bluetooth chips. CSR plc listed on the London Stock Exchange in March 2004 and became a FTSE 250 company in July of the same year. As a technology start-up, CSR was one of the UK’s great commercial success stories of the past decade.Phil helped grow CSR, as founding Managing Director, from a start-up of nine in 1999 into a highly successful publicly listed company with $705m in revenue and $154m in pre-tax profit in 2006 when he left to become an angel investor.

At Twelve Winds, Phil works with the founders, boards and management of emerging companies as well as those Universities and other organisations wishing to exploit their intellectual property. His focus is emerging technology-intensive companies, in both England and Ireland, with the potential to become global market leaders. Phil has worked in the communications industry for over 30 years in both very large and small companies and currently holds a number of non-executive directorships. Phil has BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering, is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer and a Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Gold Medal winner.

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