Intellectual Property Authority, Ian Pearson Joins Antix Labs' Board

08th June 2009: Reading, England – Ian Pearson CEng FIET has joined Antix’s Board of Directors working alongside Chairman Juan Montes and Francis Charig, the company’s Chief Executive.

Ian Pearson, offers over 40 years of engineering and management experience in both mature and new start knowledge based companies specialising in semiconductor design and manufacturing, application software, and intellectual property and in which he has held numerous senior management positions and Directorships. These companies include SI Aviation, Microcircuit Engineering Ltd, Inmos/Thorn EMI, Niche Data Systems USA, KPAR Archiving Software PLC (Canada), and ST Microelectronics. Ian also acts as an independent consultant assisting SMEs in the commercial exploitation of intellectual property for the electronic and semiconductor industry and is a Mentor at ‘Set Squared’ the new start -up incubator at the Universities of Bath and Bristol. He has also participated and advised in a number of European Government and UK funding initiatives and programs supporting SMEs.

He joined the Board of Imagination Technologies Group PLC as Non-Executive Director in 1998 where he is the senior Non Executive Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and also serves on the Audit Committee.

Ian Pearson said, “Antix enters the market at a time where there is growing demand for the downloading and execution of games/media on mobile phones and home based media systems. Antix brings to market a mature and well-tested universal platform that simplifies the task of the games providers, the cell phone manufacturers and the end users. I am pleased to be joining and contributing my business experience to this experienced team and exciting new start company.

Francis Charig, Chief Executive comments, “I have been the beneficiary of Ian’s wisdom many times over the past fifteen years which is why I was so keen for him to have an important role in Antix. Ian’s knowledge of our market and his global network are both extremely valuable but it is also his operational validation and guidance that I have always sought and seek again with Ian now a Director of Antix Labs.”

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