Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Phil O’Donovan is a co-founder of 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.

Phil helped grow CSR, as founding Managing Director, from 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. Phil has worked in the communications industry for over 30 years in both very large and small companies.

Phil holds BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering, is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer and a Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Gold Medal winner.