The iVentureTuesday Speaker Series features a new programme of talks given by prominent members of the business community. The programme seeks to inspire and motivate those who wish to develop their careers in different directions or have entrepreneurial ambitions.

19:00             Registration & Networking Drinks

20:00          Building a Global Market Leader

Dr David Milne, OBE, FREng, FRSE, FIET

Founder and Non-Exec Director Wolfson Microelectronics Plc

Dr David Milne was educated in Edinburgh and graduated in Physics from Heriot Watt University in 1965. He completed his PhD at Bristol University in X-ray Optics in 1968 where he worked on a new fundamental determination of the Avogadro number using X-ray interferometry. In 1970 he was appointed to the Wolfson Microelectronics Institute in Edinburgh where he became director in 1973. He took the Institute private in 1985 forming a company specialising in integrated circuit design for third parties 

 The company transitioned into a fabless semiconductor company in 1995 addressing the emerging market for digital consumer applications and has since established a world wide reputation for its audio products used in many iconic digital consumer products. It listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2003 reaching a market capitalisation in excess of $1bn in 2006.

He has kept a keen interest in education and the commercialisation of research. He created a strong interaction between the Edinburgh University and the electronics industry for which he was awarded an OBE in 1984. He was appointed an honorary Professor at the University in 1998, was a member of the University Court from 1998 to 2007 and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science in 2008. He also has honorary degrees from Bristol and Heriot Watt Universities and recipient of the IEEE Millennium medal for his contribution to electronics.

 As Vice-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh he led the Commercialisation Project with Scottish Enterprise which has formed the basis for much of the subsequent government investment into technology transfer for company creation and growth in Scotland.

Since stepping down as CEO of Wolfson in 2007 he has become Chairman of the Edinburgh International Science Festival, Chairman of Elonics, a start-up fabless semiconductor company and remains a Non-executive Director of Wolfson Microelectronics. He is Chairman of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation.

Format

19:00 - Registration & drinks reception

20:00 – Lecture

                40mins lecture

                20min Q & A

21:00 – Close of event

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Preceeding the David Milne talk and as part of this Enterprise Evening

there is an Entrepreneurship Club joint event with Archangels Informal Investments

How effective are business angels?

David Grahame , LINC Scotland & Nelson Gray 

For further information contact: Ruth Greig (v1rgreig@exseed.ed.ac.uk )

18: 15 (registration opens 18:00)      

The above event requires seperate registration 

To register click here

 http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/waf/event_registration/index.php?event_id=1165