Chris Shannon
Chris Shannon has headed up technology rich start-up companies for the last 20 years. Working across a variety of markets with optical fiber and wireless technologies, Chris created and led the Telecom division of Queensgate Instruments, which sold to SDL in 2000. He later became CEO of Indigo Photonics, which was subsequently acquired by Insensys in 2003 and is now part of Schlumberger and Moog. Most recently Chris was CEO of Ezurio, a spin off from TDK, where he successfully commercialised their Bluetooth, WLAN and M2M technology, which led to the acquisition of the business by Laird Technologies in 2008.