Peter Smyth, Founder & CEO

Peter Smyth is a 20yr veteran of the business. Most recently he held the position of VP Business Development for Ceva Inc.'s (Nasdaq: CEVA) Strategic Accounts and Wireline Communications Divisions, with worldwide responsibility for division revenues and product marketing, including Ceva's high-speed Wireline interface technologies. Over a career spanning 10 years at Ceva (previously Parthus Inc.), Peter also held positions as VP Product Marketing and VP Sales. Prior to working for Ceva in Ireland, he was Europe Manager for Taiwan-based Microtek International (DSD) based in Munich, Germany, and prior to that, he was Western Region Sales Manager for Microtek's operation in the United States, based in Portland, OR. Peter also held roles as Product Marketing Engineer and later as UK Sales Manager for Irish firm Ashling Microsystems, based in London. Out of college Peter was a Control Systems Design Engineer for Hyster Inc. Peter has a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University, 1985.

Dr John Horan, Co-Founder & CTO

John Horan has most recently worked as an IC Architect with the Wireline Communications Division of Ceva Inc., based in Cork, Ireland, where he has contributed architectures and designs for Ceva’s leading edge PLL, Transceiver, PHY and SerDes products, to speeds up to 6Gbps. John also lead Ceva’s renowned PLLXpert product development. Prior to his 9 years at Ceva, John held R&D positions at the National Microelectronic Research Centre, Cork, Ireland; Analog Devices Inc., Limerick, Ireland; and Microsim Corporation (makers of PSPICE), Irvine, CA. Since 1992 he has also taught at the Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland at undergraduate and Post-graduate level. He has authored numerous technical papers and has had 9 US patents issued, with others pending. John has a Bachelor of Engineering, MEngSc and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Ireland at Cork.

Phil Scott, CFO

Prior to joining RedMere in January 2007, Phil worked with Irish public corporation Kingspan Group Plc (LSE: KSP.L) as Group Analyst responsible for strategic planning, divisional review of over thirty manufacturing sites, M&A due diligence, half yearly reporting and Investor Relations. Prior to Kingspan, Phil was Financial Planning and Analysis Manager at Ceva Inc (NASDAQ: Ceva), joining prior to it’s IPO in 2000 and responsible for Quarterly reporting, forecasting, M&A due diligence, revenue recognition. Phil trained as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen qualifying in 1997. He has a Bachelor of Science from Manchester University, 1993.

Ruud van der Linden, CMO
Head of Global Sales

Ruud was Senior VP at  Asia Pacific for Freecom Inc, Senior VP for Philips Semiconductor where he was responsible for the Display Solutions Business Unit worldwide, located in Taiwan. There he was responsible for the total product value chain for products such as display drivers, decoders, encoders and video processing IC's. Ruud also spent almost 6 years as Senior VP Asia Pacific at Philips Semiconductor, running the complete marketing and sales operation for Philips Semiconductors in Asia (also located in Taiwan). Prior to that he was responsible for World Wide Marketing of Philips Semiconductor Logic IC's, based in Silicon Valley. Ruud started his career at Philips in the Netherlands in 1984 having roles in Sales, Automation, Production and Human Resource management. Following University Ruud worked as a teacher in Physics and Mathematics. He has Bachelor degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Nijmegen, and a Masters Degree in Educational Technology from the University of Enschede, both located in the Netherlands.