Ian has more than 30 years of board-level experience in the industrial technology industry and has served as chief executive officer of companies operating in the United States and Europe. Ian is Chairman of SiPearl, an AI chip company. Ian was formerly President of Uniphase (now JDS Uniphase) in the US, a Nasdaq company that he grew from a market gap of $300m to $16bn during his five-year tenure. He was also Chairman of Oplink Communications that he took public on Nasdaq in 2000. He also served on the Board at Paysafe, a UK company that was listed on AIM before recently uplisting to the FTSE 250 and subsequently exiting into private equity. Ian received a B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from Bristol University.