Board of Directors

Mark Hodgkins

Executive Chairman

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Mark graduated from the University of Manchester and is a Chartered Accountant. He began working with EnSilica in May 2016.

He is a former partner of both Grant Thornton and Ernst & Young, focussed on advising mid-sized companies. Since leaving Ernst & Young in 2005, Mark has been CFO and CEO of a number of private and public businesses with experience of leadership positions in all of them.

Ian Lankshear

Chief Executive Officer

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Ian co-founded EnSilica in 2001.

Under his stewardship, the Company has enjoyed sustained growth based on market-led opportunities, innovation and export success. Ian has a strong technical and commercial background covering
semiconductors and adjacent markets.

Ian’s early career was in radar systems development for Siemens Plessey Systems. He moved into semiconductor development in 1996 working for Hitachi and then for Nokia. Ian holds a First-Class Honours degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering.

Kristoff Rademan

Chief Financial Officer

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Graduating from the University of Stellenbosch in 2002 Kristoff began his finance career at KPMG in South Africa before relocating to the UK.

He has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance across the pharmaceutical and technology sectors, including serving as Vice President and Group Financial Controller at Oxford Biomedica Plc, a company listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

Prior to that, he held senior finance management positions at Archimedes Pharma, a European speciality pharmaceutical company, where he also served as the UK & Ireland Finance Director.

Wasim ‘Woz’ Ahmed

Non-Executive Director

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Woz is a seasoned senior executive with an established track record in the semiconductor industry, spanning strategy, M&A, marketing and business development. With a BEng (Hons) in Electronics from Kingston University and a Henley MBA, Woz spent 15 years at Imagination Technologies, latterly as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff. He previously held management roles at Arc and Hitachi. Woz is currently working as a C-level consultant.

David Tilston

Non-Executive Director

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David is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Association of Corporate Treasurers. He has over 30 years’ experience in finance functions within public companies, including at Group CFO level.

He is currently a Senior Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair and a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees at SDI Group plc, a company listed on AIM and is also a non-executive director at AFI Rentals Group Ltd.

Stephen Brindle

Non-Executive Director

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Most recently, Stephen worked for drug discovery company Engitix Ltd, a business he set up with 2 academics from University College, London. Between 2008 and 2016, he was Managing Partner of Technikos LLP, an early-stage venture capital fund with a long-term commercial contract with Oxford University. Prior to that, Stephen spent 10 years on various trading floors in the City, including Goldman Sachs & Citi, as an equity specialist salesman. Between 1991 and 1997 he worked for 6 years as a management consultant, latterly with Deloitte.