Patrick McNamee (right) has over 25 years experience in the semiconductor industry  including 15 years senior management experience with successful fabless semiconductor  companies such as Powervation, Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR)  and Dialog Semiconductor.

Tim Haynes (left) Nujira's CEO said, "Nujira's vision is to install its Coolteq wideband Envelope Tracking technology into 800m energy efficient 3G and 4G devices over the next 5 years, and the new position of VP of Silicon Operations is central to our delivery of that vision.

"Patrick has all the key skills and experience required for setting up and managing a successful fabless manufacturing operation.

"During his extensive career in the semiconductor industry Patrick has been responsible for manufacturing over 2.5bn chips. His knowledge and insight will play a significant part in ensuring that we deliver our products and our strategy on time and on budget."

McNamee joins Nujira from EoSemi, the UK based start-up with novel IP in the field of silicon timers replacing quartz crystals. EoSemi has appointed (left) Steve Cliffe as VP of sales and marketing and Mark Newton as (right) VP Operations. 

Newton was previously VP Operations at Trident Microsystems and before that held senior management positions at NXP Semiconductors and Philips Semiconductors.

 Earlier in his career, McNamee held test and product development positions at senior engineer level with National Semiconductor and GEC Plessey and is a director and Board Member of the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI).