Phil O’Donovan is a co-founder of Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) plc which listed on the London Stock Exchange in March 2004, became a FTSE 250 company in July of the same year, and is now Europe’s largest fabless semiconductor company. As a technology start-up, CSR is one of the UK’s great commercial success stories of the past decade, emerging as a start-up of nine in 1999 into a highly successful publicly listed company with $705m in revenue and $154m in pre-tax profit in 2006 when he left to become an angel investor. At Twelve Winds, Phil works with the founders, boards and management of emerging technology-based companies as well as those organisations wishing to exploit their intellectual property. His focus is technology-intensive companies in both England and Ireland and he currently holds several non-executive directorships.
