Alan, Steve and Roger have all worked together at various stages of their careers and share the same passion for bringing innovative solutions to market. Whilst all have worked independently for several years, they decided it would make more sense to pool their resources and create Argon Design with a remit to provide customers with first class engineering services, from a team that has delivered, to help them achieve their aims.
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Alan has over 30 years experience in hardware and software design, product development, business development and corporate management.
He is an entrepreneur and inspirational business leader with a successful track record in all areas of electronic product development including strategic business planning, development of innovative new technologies and products, business and market development.
Alan has the rare ability to cross the boundary between the worlds of engineering and business. He is equally at home when working with design engineers to solve detailed technical problems or when addressing complex strategic issues at board level. He particularly enjoys the challenges of building and motivating the engineering team to surpass their own expectations.
After seven years as Chief Engineer at Apricot Computers, in 1987 Alan became founder and CEO of NMI Electronics. NMI developed into a successful and highly regarded consulting company, earning the distinction of being one of Microsoft's top Gold Level Systems Integrators for Windows CE and Windows Mobile, winning several awards from Microsoft in the process. NMI successfully completed over 100 Windows embedded projects for a wide range of multinational organisations including HP, Samsung and Orange.
Alan has a BSc, MSc, MBA and Diploma in Company Direction. He is a member of the IET and the IoD, is a Chartered Director and a private pilot.
Since selling NMI in 2002, Alan has been providing consulting services to a number of technology based companies and start-ups, before starting Argon Design with Steve and Roger in July 2009.
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Roger is an experienced businessman with international sales, business development, marketing and product management experience in both multi-national and start-up companies. More recently he has been focussed on imaging, mobile multimedia, network intelligence and surveillance markets.
His niche is in working with innovative companies bringing new solutions to the market. He was the first European employee for MediaQ, winning their first global web tablet and mobile phone design wins prior to their acquisition by NVIDIA in 2003. At this point Roger left to join Alphamosaic, driving their sales efforts in Europe.
Alphamosaic were bought by Broadcom in 2004 at which point Roger became Business Development and Product Manager for the Mobile Multimedia Division, his main focus being to work with major OEMs worldwide in defining the requirements for future devices.
After leaving Broadcom in late 2006, Roger set up RBeee Ltd to provide Marketing, Sales & Business Development services and work with a number of early-stage, start-up companies such as Nethra Imaging, Imsense, Spiral Gateway & RICAtek; as well as carrying out specific projects for larger companies such as ARM.
Roger joined Alan and Steve in July 2009 to form Argon Design.
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Steve is an experienced technical leader and entrepreneur with over 30 years experience in hardware design, software design and product development.
His passion is in developing new technologies and products, particularly in the area of consumer products and entertainment that will create commercial success and "make a dent in the World".
Steve studied Engineering at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and has a starred first in Electrical Sciences.
He worked for 16 years with Cambridge Consultants, where he ran the Embedded Digital Systems Group and rose to become an Associate Director. This broad project background provides the knowledge and experience that means he can reliably deliver successful engineering projects; a rare skill in today's world.
In 2001, he spotted a market opportunity and co-founded and led the technical development of Alphamosaic, a VC based fabless semiconductor company developing low power multimedia ICs and software. The company successfully developed video processors that were used in tier 1 mobile phones and portable media players. Alphamosaic was bought in September 2004 by Broadcom, where Steve stayed as Senior Director of Engineering for the Mobile Multimedia Division, developing the third generation of mobile multimedia products.
Steve left Broadcom at the end of 2007 to become an independent consultant working with a number of companies in the Cambridge area, providing entrepreneurial and technical advice. Steve co-founded Argon Design with Alan and Roger in July 2009.