Leadership Team

Chief Executive Officer

Ian Lankshear

Ian co-founded EnSilica in 2001. Under his stewardship, the Company has enjoyed sustained growth based on market-lead 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.

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Our Leaders

Peter Jeutter

Peter Jeutter

Vice President of Sales

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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 Sarta

Davide Sarta

SVP - Engineering

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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 applications ranging from 5G, AI, Set Top Boxes, Cable gateway to 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.

Kristoff Rademan

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.

Olivia Slater

Olivia Slater

Vice President - Operations & Quality

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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 Wu

Bernard Wu

Vice President of Sensing & Control Business Unit

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Bernard has over 20 years’ experience in display technology, specialising 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 the position of Business Operations Director and a 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.

Paul Morris

Paul Morris

Vice President of RF & Comms Business Unit

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Paul has over 30 years’ experience in senior technical and commercial roles at Qualcomm, CSR, Cadence and Philips as well as a variety of Cambridge-based start-ups.He began his career working on various digital wireless technologies and also specialised in semiconductor systems since 2001.Paul holds a First-Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer at the IET, Project Management Professional in good standing and is the author of several patents covering wireless technologies.

Alan Wong

Alan Wong

Chief Technology Officer

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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 Royston

Helen Royston

Head of HR

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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

Ramesh Doddamane

Ramesh Doddamane

Vice President - Design Services

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Ramesh has over 30 years’ experience in the semiconductor industry focusing on verification, validation, and programme and people management.Ramesh worked with Cypress semiconductors, where he was one of the early employee’s in India tasked with building the verification team. He has also worked with design service company KPIT, managing major customer accounts such as ST, LSI, Cypress and NXP. Ramesh has also spent four years in California working with semiconductor start-ups.Ramesh is responsible for the overall management of EnSilica’s Bangalore office and EnSilica’s design services business unit.

Julio Leão da Silva Jr.

Julio Leão da Silva Jr.

Brazil Country Head

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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 and 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, plus 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), MsC. in Computer Science and BS in Electrical Engineering at UFRGS (Brazil/1989 and 1986). Julio also has an PMP certification (2011) and ISO 9001 internal auditor (2016).

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