Jem Davies
Jem is currently a non-executive director and advisor to several startup companies in the UK and US, looking for opportunities to use his expertise to achieve wider impact and success.
An experienced entrepreneurial senior leader, with successful track record identifying technical trends, spotting commercial disruptions, setting strategy, and building/developing leadership teams to achieve real commercial business growth, acquiring startups to accelerate that growth, when appropriate. More than two decades’ experience in the semiconductor and IP businesses working closely with the largest technology companies in Asia, US and Europe.
Originally an OS kernel hacker, Jem strayed across into hardware architecture and held various roles at Arm over a long career, including Fellow, VP of technology, setting technology strategy and roadmaps, finally as general manager of two startup businesses he founded/created inside Arm: media processing (producing the world’s #1 shipping GPU) and AI/Machine Learning.
Based in Cambridge, UK, Jem holds four patents in the fields of CPU/GPU architecture, memory systems and compression and a degree from the University of Cambridge. He enjoys gliding, diving and fireworks.
