Leadership Team

Peter has 25 years of experience in the industry with a focus on sales strategy, sales performance and sales transformation in order to grow profitable business in all sales channels.

He successfully has led small and large sales team with a track record of growth. This has involved ‘scale-up’ and ‘turn-around to growth and profitability’ situations as well as M&A leverage of sales teams. In his earlier career he was in charge of sales operations, internal consulting and commercial teams.

He worked with Renesas, Atmel and Infineon in European and global leadership roles. Peter has a commercial background with a management education from MZSG, St. Gallen, Switzerland and INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

Davide has over 25 years of experience in the development of complex SoC, with many products successfully achieving mass production in process nodes down to 7nm, and for different application ranging from 5G, AI, Set Top Boxes, Cable gateway, HPC. At EnSilica, Davide is leading a multi-disciplined digital engineering team based either in our UK, India or Brazil offices.

Davide holds a First-Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Catania, Italy, with a master in Control Systems a second master in Low Power Silicon Design obtained at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Prior to EnSilica he held senior engineering and managerial roles at STMicroelectronics, Imagination Technologies and Blu Wireless.

Olivia brings over 25 years’ experience in the semiconductor manufacturing and fabless semiconductor industry, spanning engineering and operations management roles.

Her background includes work with both start-up and multinational technology companies, including Intel, CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio), Powervation, and S3 Semiconductors. She has a broad range of technical expertise in semiconductor manufacture and reliability, and has led significant customer projects for well-known consumer and automotive electronics brands across Europe, Asia, and the US.

Olivia holds qualifications in Analytical and Applied Chemistry, and a BSc (Hons) in Quality Management from Atlantic Technological University, Ireland.

Bernard has over 20 years’ experience in display technology, specialized in TFT display driver IC, touch controllers, Touch and Display Integration and high-speed interface controllers for a broad range of applications such as mobile phones, wearables and VR devices.

Previously he held business operations director and senior management position in Solomon Systech in Hong Kong. He is experienced in product strategies, product planning and cross-functional team leadership in the Fabless Company environment.

Bernard graduated from the University of Oxford with an MEng(hons) degree in Engineering Science.

Alan joined EnSilica in 2016. He has more than 20 years of experience in semiconductor development, initially in technical positions at Tokyo Electron and Sony Semiconductor, and then as IC Design Director at Frontier Microsystems & Toumaz Ltd, where he led the design and delivery of SoC products for medical and consumer markets.

Alan is a Chartered Engineer, MIET, Senior member IEEE, and served as TPC member for ISSCC and on IEEE802.15 standards committee.

Alan holds a MEng degree in Engineering from the University of Oxford.

Helen joined the company in 2024, bringing a wealth of international HR experience across diverse sectors, including publishing, care, and technology.

As Head of HR, she leads strategic initiatives focused on talent development and supporting the company’s commitment to engineering excellence. With the ongoing growth, including the opening of two new design centres in the UK and Hungary in 2025, Helen is dedicated to fostering a culture that empowers both individuals and teams to thrive.

Helen holds a degree in Psychology and Sociology, is a Chartered Member of the CIPD, and is a qualified coach. Her expertise, coupled with her passion for enabling growth, drives her focus on creating an environment where people can reach their full potential

Julio Leao has over 30 years of experience (Belgium, USA, Brazil) in various roles including project management, digital design methodologies from RTL to GDSII, EDA software development, digital IC design among others.

He has 7 patents and over 2500 paper citations under his belt. He has worked with tech giants like Get2chip and Forte (both acquired by Cadence) in the USA, and NSCAD and Ceitec in Brazil.

Julio has completed his Post-doctorate at U.C. Berkeley (USA/2001), PhD. from IMEC/K.U.L. (Belgium/1999) and MsC. in Computer Science and BS in Electrical Engineering at UFRGS (Brazil/1989 and 1986). Julio also has an PMP certification (2011), ISO 9001 internal auditor (2016)