Russell Haggar

Incubation Delivery

2023 - Current

Silicon Catalyst UK's pre-seed incubator has been launched to nurture very early stage semiconductor startups in the UK just as they get going. We offer all the "in kind" partnerships of the global later-stage accelerator and access to Silicon Catalyst's worldwide advisor network, plus a mentoring programme geared to early-stage UK startups. Alongside my day job at VyperCore, I am part of the Silicon Catalyst UK team, where my role is primarily to assist our startups engage with the investment community.

Advisor

2021

CEO & Co-founder

2022 - 2025

Reimagining processors to accelerate high-performance workloads

Industrial IOT working group champion

2020 - 2023

One of four SIG champions plotting the course of this exciting sector within Cambridge Wireless

Director of Industrial IOT/Connectivity & Smart Energy

2019 - 2022

Chief Commercial Officer (Interim)

2019 - 2020

Business Development + Product Management for this leading deeptech machine learning startup. Took Myrtle's high performance real-time streaming inference deep neural network (LSTM, RNN) platform into its first customer engagements.

Consultant

2008 - 2020

Enlightened Technology is my independent consultancy in the deeptech sector, offering strategy, advisory and NED capabilities, alongside good old-fashioned hands-on sleeves-rolled-up operating projects. CXO | Business development | Product strategy | Market/technology due diligence | Business planning | Corporate strategy | Business modelling | Fundraising (VC & PE) | M&A Data Centre * Conversational AI * Machine Learning * Next-gen Connectivity * Industrial IOT * Connected Home * Agritech * Smart Energy * Data Analytics * Semiconductors (fabless, IP, design services) * Electric Vehicle Powertrains * Cybersecurity * HPC * Smart Meters A selection of projects: * Interim Chief Commercial Officer assistance (product, strategy, revenue) for Myrtle.ai - venture-backed high performance streaming DNN machine learning inference * Control architecture for in-band connected powertrains in EVs * Strategic advisory for high performance computing machine learning FPGA hardware * Business planning for frontier-tech ultra large-scale highly automated agriculture * UK smart meter rollout advisory to government and industry bodies * Connectivity strategy, technology partnering and product roadmapping for digital pay-TV * Intellectual property portfolio review and exploitation for SMEs & blue chips * Independent market research * Market and strategic due diligence services for technology investors

Corporate Strategy

2018 - 2018

Corporate Development, Product Strategy, Market Development Advised on transitioning the business away from a consultancy/lifestyle model and into a high growth product-based strategy. Fintech, High frequency trading, Cybersecurity, Machine learning, Machine vision

Chief Exec

2009 - 2018

Whole-home IOT connectivity for the smart connected home. Co-founded Xsilon in 2009, becoming chief exec after its first funding round. Responsible for all team growth, product management as well as all commercial activities. I represent Xsilon on techUK's IOT Council, the leading strategy body for UK IOT activities. Xsilon is the creator of Hanadu, the In-Home M2M connectivity solution for mass market IOT. Hanadu delivers the IOT to the parts of the home that radio can't get to. It's the only "Wireline 15.4" connectivity that works seamlessly with both ZigBee and Thread, providing whole home coverage straight out of the box. Xsilon owns the underlying IP behind Hanadu and is currently focussed on business development and further fundraising.

Spin-Out CEO

2016 - 2016

Spin-out creation, adapting in-house technology for ultra-high volume indoor farming - agritech at scale, vertical farming for the masses.