Stan Boland

Stan Boland is a British entrepreneur in the information technology sector.[1]

This article is about the British technology entrepreneur. For the fictional American character, see Stanley Bolander.
Stan Boland
Stan Boland talks at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin in 2017
Born1959/1960 (age 59–60)[1]
NationalityBritish[1]
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge[2]
EmployerNeul
OrganizationGlobal Semiconductor Alliance[3][4]
Known forIcera, Nvidia, Element 14, Acorn Computers

Biography

Boland studied physics at the University of Cambridge. He cited Hermann Hauser, Andy Hopper, and Robin Saxby as influences on his career.[2]

Boland was employed as Foreign Exchange Manager at Rolls-Royce Aerospace, Deputy Treasurer at Bell Group and Asset Treasurer at Bricom.[3][5] He worked for Robert Holmes à Court in the 1980s.[2] Working at ICL from 1990 to '97,[1] he became involved in the technology sector, holding positions including Finance Director, Director of Treasury & Tax and Group Treasurer.[3][5] In 1997, he moved to Acorn Computers, ultimately spun-out as Element 14.[3][5][6] Broadcom acquired Element 14 in 2000 for $640M, with Boland becoming Vice President of its DSL business unit.[3][5] He has been a director of ARM Holdings[7]

Icera was co-founded by Boland in 2002 and acquired by Nvidia in 2011 for $367M plus an undisclosed staff retention amount. In 2006 Boland stated that the flotation was planned for "probably 2008".[8]

Boland was reported in April 2013 as being appointed CEO of wireless technology startup Neul.[9][10][11][12][13][14] From January 2014, he has also been Chairman of NMI, the UK national association for companies in the electronics systems sector.

Stan is a co- founder and the CEO of FiveAI

Sports

Boland rowed for Derwent Rowing Club 1982-1987.

gollark: There are still all kinds of side channel attacks, but eh.
gollark: Oh, if I just wanted to deny access to basically everything it would be *fairly* easy.
gollark: This is even crazier. If I return the whole environment table from `pcall` it's out-of-sandbox, but if I check the return value *in* the function it somehow breaks?
gollark: Sometimes sandboxing makes me want to just run all the computing on a CCEmuX instance in the cloud™ or something and make potatOS devices mostly dumb terminals.
gollark: Well, I patched *that*, and that makes sense since it actually deals with environments.

References
  1. "Stan Boland". Time. October 29, 2001. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
  2. Optimist with a record of success
  3. GSA Board of Directors & Leadership Councils, Global Semiconductor Alliance
  4. Cambridge duo in semiconductor summit
  5. The VC Factor, British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
  6. Element of surprise
  7. Stan Boland: Executive Profile & Biography
  8. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/15/04/2008/38070/Q5-Stan-Boland-of-Icera-Semiconductor.htm
  9. Fitchard, Kevin (15 April 2013). "Icera founder Stan Boland leaves Nvidia to head up U.K. wireless startup Neul". GigaOM. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  10. Rooney, Ben (16 April 2013). "Neul Beefs Up Management Team". WSJ Tech Europe blog. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  11. "Neul Taps New CEO". Entertainment Close-up. 16 April 2013. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  12. "White space specialist company Neul appoints Stan Boland as new CEO". Wireless. Noble House Media. 16 April 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  13. Clarke, Peter (12 April 2013). "London Calling: Incoming CEO says Neul won't be like Icera". EE Times. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  14. "Neul Appoints Stan Boland as New CEO". Wireless News. 17 April 2013. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2013. – via HighBeam Research (subscription required)


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.