Telensa’s smart streetlight control system is the world’s largest, with a footprint of nearly two million lights covering entire cities and regions. This means we are perfectly placed to pioneer new, different and cost-effective ways to develop the smart cities of tomorrow, making urban spaces work better for everyone.
Telensa delivers a proven business case, with technology that has been tried and tested for over a decade. Streetlight infrastructure can easily be adopted for city-wide sensing, an efficient means to collect, protect and apply data to enhance city life. In effect, our many streetlight connections act as a sensing array, providing place, power and connectivity wherever people live, work and travel.
Short profiles of the dedicated, experienced team members who lead the way at Telensa. Collectively, they are responsible for keeping us focused on the road to success.
Brent is an experienced CEO, having driven growth at a number of innovative UK and US technology companies including Travel Information Systems (QinetiQ), Tality and Sagentia Group. He has a significant public sector, utilities and IoT leadership background, and has transformed several Cambridge tech companies from growth stage to large scale enterprises. Brent has substantial global expertise in negotiating strategic deals, working with some of the world’s largest tech companies in the US and APAC.
As Chairman of Telensa, Martin brings some 30 years’ experience in high growth technology businesses covering investments in over 20 telecoms, semiconductor, wireless technology, networking and consumer Internet companies. Martin is an independent advisor to boards and investors in ICT and digital media businesses. He was a general partner at Advent Venture Partners, one of Europe’s leading growth and venture capital investors. Prior to this, Martin spent 12 years as an investment manager with venture capital fund manager MTI. In his early career he was founder and CEO of an instrumentation and telemetry business.
Patrick is a founder and Partner of the Environmental Technologies Fund. Patrick has worked in venture capital since 1985. He was instrumental in founding 3i’s venture capital practice, and later became the founding Managing Director of its Silicon Valley operation. Before this, he was a research engineer for GEC and Marconi Space Systems. He was a member of the Executive Committee and Board of EVCA from 2007 to 2010, during which time he also chaired the Venture Capital Committee. Patrick has a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from UCL, London.
William C. Weiss is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Promar Group LLC. He is a renowned global strategist, Board member and experienced leader in technology-enabled fields. For more than 40 years, he has been providing counsel and execution assistance to corporate leaders, Boards, investment funds, and high- net-worth investors around the world. The arenas in which Bill is involved include analytics, media, communications, computing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, medical, energy, environmental and life sciences. His unique way of strategically analyzing and accessing the landscape offers a fresh framework for understanding how technology and change can open new possibilities.
Mr. Weiss calls his approach “Design a Future”©, a methodology that identifies four key principles necessary to gain and maintain success. Among those clients with whom Mr. Weiss has worked include Artificial Solutions, Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Oxford Metrics Group, Canary, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Silicon Image, Steelcase, and others.
His involvement includes Boards of Directors, Board Observer, Executive Advisory roles, executive leadership presentations and keynote addresses.
In addition to his role advising the board at Telensa, Andrew Gilbert acts as the non- executive chairman of Wirepas Oy and as a director of Gildrew Limited. Prior to this, Andrew served as executive vice president of European Innovation Development of Qualcomm Europe, Inc., leading Qualcomm’s activity in wireless power including WiPowerTM handset charging technology and Halo Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging technology. He acted as the executive adviser to Qualcomm until 2013. He also served as a member of Qualcomm’s executive committee.
Andrew joined Qualcomm in 2006 as president of Qualcomm Europe, Inc. where he provided strategic direction and oversight of all Qualcomm’s business development and operational activity in Europe, and served in various roles including president of MediaFLO Technologies and president of Qualcomm Internet Services.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, Andrew served as vice president and general manager of Flarion Technologies’ European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) regions, responsible for EMEA strategy and operations. His leadership contributions guided Flarion’s European business through technical and commercial validation with global operators such as T-Mobile and Vodafone, and ultimately to multiple deployments of FLASH-OFDM with T-Mobile in Slovakia and Germany, and with Digita in Finland. He has also worked for many leading global technology companies including Motorola and Racal.
Fidel is a Vice President of Hermes GPE. He joined in 2017 to focus on growth investing and to bolster the firm’s direct growth equity capabilities. Fidel has a strong background in technology growth investing gained over several years at ViewPoint Capital and Kennet Partners and joins from Mojo Capital where he was recently leading direct investments. He holds an MA in computer science and business administration from the Technical University of Darmstadt.
Ian Murphy is co-founder and Director of Plextek Ltd and Chairman of Plextek RFI . He started his professional career with Racal BCC working on tactical military radios before being one of the first employees in Vodafone where he developed the RF sections for the “Brick” handset. This involved the development of thin and thick film processes on ceramic and various associated manufacturing processes. From there he moved back into Military communications, IFF systems, flight control systems and CT2 before co-founding Plextek Ltd in 1989, the leading communications technology group that has since produced Plextek RFI, Telensa (street lighting control and smart cities), Blighter Surveillance Systems (electronic scanning radar) and Redtail Telematics (vehicle tracking).
Brent is an experienced CEO, having driven growth at a number of innovative UK and US technology companies including Travel Information Systems (QinetiQ), Tality and Sagentia Group. He has a significant public sector, utilities and IoT leadership background, and has transformed several Cambridge tech companies from growth stage to large scale enterprises. Brent has substantial global expertise in negotiating strategic deals, working with some of the world’s largest tech companies in the US and APAC.
Will founded Telensa with Tim Jackson in 2005, and led the company as CEO for the first 10 years of profitable growth. He has unparalleled global experience as a pioneer of wireless smart street lighting, and in particular how its economic model underpins new smart city applications.
Jon has over 25 years’ experience leading innovation in the telecommunications sector, he joined Telensa to broaden the company’s application portfolio and open new market segments. Jon holds a number of patents and has a PhD in engineering.
Josie has over 20 years’ experience working in finance leadership roles, primarily in the telecommunications sector. Josie is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Cathy has over 25 years’ experience working in HR with extensive experience working as an International HR Operations Director. Cathy has worked in many sectors and has a wealth of experience within the technical arena. Cathy has a degree in Human Resource Management and is CIPD qualified (MCIPD).
Mark has over 20 years’ of experience in Product and Solutions Development. Prior to Telensa he worked BT Research Labs, Microsoft and most recently Amino Communications, pioneering the field of IPTV.
