EEDA - East of England Development Agency

Robert Swann

Board member

Robert Swann joined the EEDA board on 1 May 2009

Robert was a co-founder of innovative Cambridge semiconductor company Alphamosaic. Its multimedia products have achieved sales of more than 25 million devices worldwide and can be found in mobile phones and media players.

Robert graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in Electrical and Information Sciences and gained a PhD in video processing at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He has also published more than 15 patents.

He co-founded Alphamosaic in 2001, which specialised in multimedia processors for handheld devices. The company developed innovative low-power video processing and achieved market success. It was acquired by Broadcom Corporation in 2004 and Robert became its senior director with worldwide marketing responsibility for mobile multimedia until 2007.

Robert has since worked with early-stage venture companies and is a board member of ImSense Ltd and Spiral Gateway Ltd. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, Mandy, who is a Fellow of St Edmund's College and a lecturer in the Faculty of Education
 

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