ARM founder heads battery pioneer Splashpower

By Peter Clarke, SBN
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(12/06/02, 06:40:12 PM EDT)

Cambridge, England -- Jamie Urquhart, formerly chief strategy officer of microprocessor technology licensor ARM Holdings plc, has joined Splashpower Ltd., a startup that has set out to commercialize a planar form of inductive charging technology, as its vice president of licensing.

Urquhart was previously a member of Splashpower's technical advisory board, (see October 29 story) and now joins Splashpower as a part-time member of the management team.

“Jamie is providing us with a significant proportion of his time. We have a technology licensing business model. Jamie will work on tactical stuff; on refining the business model and on particular deals,” said John Halfpenny, chief executive officer of Splashpower.

"Jamie brings a wealth of sales expertise and in-depth, personal contacts with senior management at companies in Japan, Europe, Taiwan, Korea, the United States and many other markets," Halfpenny added.

Urquhart said that he looked forward to working with a small company that would help enable wireless operation, which had also been part of the mission at ARM. Urquahrt said that he would do some consulting back to ARM and that he remained on the board of directors of the Korean subsidiary of ARM as well as being on the boards of PicoChip Design Ltd., Antenova Ltd. and nCipher Ltd.

The essence of Splashpower's claims for its inductive charging system is that suitably enabled equipment, such as mobile phones and PDAs, could be recharged while they are resting on a 'SplashPad' at the rate they would recharge if conventionally connected, but without the use of a cable, or a cradle.

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