Calum MacGregor

Director

Calum MacGregor is a founding member and director of III-V Epi. He is an experienced entrepreneur and business leader, operating at CTO and CEO level in many private sector, technology and manufacturing businesses, including start-ups, SMEs and PLCs.

Calum was CEO of Gas Sensing Solutions (GSS), Cumbernauld, Scotland, where he led the development and commercialisation of the company’s world-leading sensors. These were manufactured using III-V semiconductor epitaxial structures, ranging from prototype to high volumes, to suit their global markets.

Calum operates as a Non-Executive Director and consultant for a range of businesses, including healthcare, sensing, advanced manufacturing and science-based, spin-outs. He has delivered major programmes for blue-chip customers in the UK, Europe, North America and the Far East.

Calum has a degree in Electronic Engineering, which he followed with a period of research in electron beam lithography and integrated optics.

Professor Richard Hogg

Chief Technical Officer

Professor Richard Hogg received his PhD in semiconductor physics from The University of Sheffield, specialising in III-V structures and materials. Richard was appointed as a researcher at NTT Basic Research Laboratories (Atsugi, Japan), conducting research on rare-earth doped semiconductors. He followed that with a year based at The University of Tokyo, Institute for Industrial Science, studying Sb based, self-assembled, quantum dots by MBE.

Richard returned to the UK working at Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratories on a range of III-V semiconductor devices, before spending three years at Agilent Technologies, Ipswich. Agilent was, at that time, the highest volume III-V facility in Europe and Richard was responsible for wafer characterisation outputs on seven, MOCVD reactors, developing and manufacturing InP and GaAs optical components.

He is now head of The Electronic and Nanoscale Engineering Division at the University of Glasgow, and is actively involved with a number of high-growth photonics companies.

Dr. Neil Gerrard

Director of Epitaxy

Dr. Neil Gerrard is a well-respected III-V epitaxial engineer and director, with over thirty years’ industrial experience. Neil has extensive III-V, compound semiconductor manufacturing experience in wafer FAB and Epitaxy operations.

Neil was Technical Marketing Director at Aixtron UK Ltd (Thomas Swan); UK MD at LayTec UK; and engineering lead in start-ups, KUBOS and Optical Reference Systems. Neil helped set up and run the wafer fab at Nortel Networks and the MOCVD facility at Sivers. Neil was also Director of Operations and Business Development for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), where he first worked with fellow director, Prof. Richard Hogg. Here he helped set up the National Centre for III-V Technologies at The University of Sheffield.

Neil has a PhD from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He followed this with post-doctoral research at Bell Labs.

Professor Steven P Beaumont, OBE, FRSE, FREng

Director

Professor Steven Beaumont is a founding member of III-V Epi. He is a distinguished academic leader, manager and entrepreneur, pioneering electron beam nanofabrication and its applications in electronic, photonic and quantum technologies. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Engineering and was awarded an OBE in 2003 for services to electronics and nanotechnology.

Steven is currently a director of QUANTIC, one of four UK Quantum Technology Hubs specialising in quantum enhanced imaging. His current industrial directorships include Acu-Flow Ltd, Glanadair Ltd, Vector Photonics Ltd, MulticorderDx Ltd and Semiwise Ltd.

Steven was Vice Principal for Research and Enterprise at the University of Glasgow following a directorship of the Institute for System Level Integration – the first institute to specialise in system-on-chip technology. During this time, he set up CENSIS, the Scottish Innovation Centre for Sensing and Imaging Systems, specialising in IoT and its commercial applications.

Steven was a founder and director of Intellemetrics Ltd and a founder and board chairman of Kelvin Nanotechnology Ltd. He was also a founder and director of Compound Semiconductor Global Ltd, System Level Integration Ltd, Gold Standard Simulations Ltd, Clyde Biosciences Ltd, Anacail Ltd, GUHoldings Ltd, SawDx Ltd, Solasta Bio Ltd and Thermoelectric Conversion Systems Ltd.