Simon Morris
Chief Executive Officer
As CEO of CogniVue, Simon brings over twenty-one years of professional experience from both private and public semiconductor companies imparting a strong business and technology management background to CogniVue. He has a pervasive understanding in all areas of semiconductor business and product development. In addition to establishing a corporate vision and market strategy, Simon is responsible for directing the evolution of the company from an R&D cost center to an independent profit center.
Most recently, Simon spent just over a year as Director at BDC Venture Capital, responsible for investment strategy in the semiconductor sector with focus on wireless markets. Prior to BDC, he held management positions at Texas Instruments in the Mobile Digital Broadcast business unit, Atsana Semiconductor Corporation as COO and VP of Product Development for three and a half years securing both Siemens Mobile and Samsung Mobile business. From 1995 to 2001, Simon lead sales and technical support for wireless opportunities for Texas Instruments in Canada and later in France, where he built from the ground up TI’s highly successful Communication Infrastructure business, winning nine out of ten base station customers and leading the development of TI’s first 3G base station chipset. He holds an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada. Simon is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario.
Michael Kelly
Chief Financial Officer
Mike is a senior executive with extensive expertise in strategic and operational business planning and management, financing, systems, process and procedure development and implementation, financial reporting and analysis and cash management.
With over twenty five years of business experience, Mike has extensive hands on expertise across a broad spectrum of business environments. Previously, Mike was CFO for Gridpoint Systems, Firsthand Technologies and SpaceBridge Semiconductor where he was involved in establishing business strategy, creating business plans, and developing and implementing processes and procedures in growth oriented environments. In addition, Mike was involved in closing in excess of $70M of venture capital, and participating in the sale of two technology start-ups. Mike has also held senior roles in major public companies including Newbridge Networks, as Assistant Vice President, Business Unit Portfolio Management and SHL Systemhouse Inc., as Director of Finance. Mike is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University.
Sean Lord
Vice President, Engineering
Sean joined CogniVue in May 2010 as Vice President R&D. Sean brings a breadth of design and leadership experience to CogniVue, having spent close to 20 years in increasing senior engineering roles.
Most recently Sean was Vice President of Product Development at Sound Design Technologies, a spin-out of Gennum Corporation that developed the award-winning hearing industry's first monolithic quad core DSP-based hearing aid. Prior to Sound Design Technologies, Sean held positons of Director of Research and Development and Senior Analog Manger at Gennum Corporation. His responsibilities included assembling and leading a team developing Serial Video ICs for the HDTV industry. Under Sean's leadership, the team successfully launched the world's first 3Gb/s SDI products which lead to more than 10 product offerings, on budget and first time right.
Prior to Gennum, Sean held leadership positions at Mosaid Semiconductor and Potentia Semiconductors leading teams developing cutting edge SRAM and DRAM based T-CAM devices, and power management ICs, respectively. Prior to this, Sean was employee number four at a small startup called Microcosm (acquired by Conexant in 2000). During his tenure at Microcosm, Sean was integral in ramping the CMOS data communications based products to market, with a revenue growth from $0 to $25M in less than 5 years. Sean also held leadership and product development roles at Cypress Semiconductor and Centronic. Sean holds a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Physics from Heriot-Watt University and a Masters Degree in Microelectronics from Southampton University.
Thomas Wilson
Director, Product Management & Marketing
Tom is a seasoned executive with over 15 years of management experience in semiconductor companies. Most recently at Wavesat, Tom was Vice President of Engineering leading the development of wireless baseband devices targeted for 4G consumer data terminals. Leading an aggressive program, Tom was responsible for assembling a new team and the necessary IP for the new product development. Before becoming VP of Engineering, Tom held a leadership position as Director of Product Management responsible for defining and bringing to production WiMAX 802.16e baseband processing components.
Previous to Wavesat, Tom was a member of senior management at Tundra Semiconductor. As one of the founding members of Tundra Semiconductor, Tom played a key role in defining and launching a series of semiconductor product families into mass production. While at Tundra, Tom held leadership roles in engineering, sales and product management. As Director of Product Management at Tundra, Tom brought a series of high-speed serial switch devices from definition to production and was directly involved with sales in securing the target Tier 1 Wireless Infrastructure OEM’s. Tom has a Bachelor’s of Science and PhD in Science from Carleton University Ottawa Canada.
