Andrew Rickman

Andrew Rickman OBE is a visionary and entrepreneur in the field of silicon photonics. He is the founder, CEO and Chairman of Rockley Photonics based in the UK, Finland and Pasadena, CA.[1] He was Britain’s first Internet billionaire,[2] and a survivor of the dot-com bubble crash.[3][4]

Dr Andrew Rickman

Education

Rickman has a mechanical engineering degree from Imperial College, London;[5] a PhD in silicon photonics from Surrey University, an MBA from Cranfield University and honorary doctorates from Surrey, Edinburgh Napier and Kingston Universities. He is a Chartered Engineer[6] and a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Physics.[5]

Career and business ventures

Rickman was previously the CEO and Chairman of Bookham Technology, the first company to commercialise silicon photonics.[7] He founded Bookham Technology in 1988 and grew it rapidly from a start-up to a FTSE100 company; successfully steering the business through a period of major consolidation in the global telecoms sector. [8]

This led to an April 2009 merger with Avanex Corporation to create the world’s second largest fibre optics telecom component producer, San Jose based Oclaro Inc. [NASDAQ: OCLR]; which was subsequently acquired by Lumentum Holdings, in March 2018, for US$ 1.8 billion [NASDAQ: LITE]. [9][10][5]

Rickman was also Chairman of Kotura Inc.,[11] – a developer of silicon photonics for fibre optic communications, high performance computing and sensing applications – and was instrumental in its development and ultimate sale for $82 million in 2013 to Mellanox Technologies, [NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX], a supplier of end-to-end interconnect solutions for servers and storage systems. In March 2019 Mellanox was acquired for US$ 6.9 billion by NVIDIA Corporation [NASDAQ: NVDA]. [12][13]

Rickman is the current CEO of Rockley Photonics. Founded in August 2013, Rockley Photonics commenced trading on the NYSE under the new ticker symbol “RKLY” on August 12, 2021. Rockley Photonics is a global leader in silicon photonics [14] and develops photonic integrated circuits and associated modules, sensors, and full-stack solutions specifically designed for mobile health monitoring;[15] machine vision to high-speed [16] and high-volume solutions for data communications.[17]

Honours and awards

Rickman was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Millennium 2000 New Year Honours list for services to the telecommunications industry,[6] and is a winner of the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for his outstanding contribution to British Engineering.[18][19]

In 2000, Rickman was named UK Technology and Communications Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young.[6]

Other achievements and interests

In 2011, Rickman was awarded an Honorary Professorship at SIMIT, Chinese Academy of Sciences.[5] Rickman has held advisory board positions with the East Asia Institute of the University of Cambridge and Applied Science and Technology Research Institute of Hong Kong.[6] [5] He was a Trustee of The Oxford Trust.[5] He was previously a council member of the UK Government’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[5] Outside of silicon photonics and integrated communication technologies his interests lie in cutting edge developments in the fields of energy, the environment and new media.[20]

References
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  2. Auchincloss, Louis (13 September 2002). "Bend it like Bookham: Andrew Rickman, founder of light-curving fibre-optics firm bookham technology, was the first uk web billionaire, then the slump hit. But he still believes in 'Broadband Britain' - and an upturn for his company". The Engineer. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2016 – via Highbeam Research.
  3. Hartford, Maggie (16 April 2009). "Entrepreneur's dream". The Oxford Times. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  4. "The tech boss who lost more than a billion". BBC News. 2020-03-09. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  5. Rickman, A. 2021. Andrew Rickman’s profile page. [LinkedIn]. [Accessed 30 September 2021. Available from: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewrickman
  6. "Executive profile: Andrew G. Rickman OBE". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
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  8. "Entrepreneur's dream". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
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  10. "Lumentum completes Oclaro acquisition". www.semiconductor-today.com. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  11. Reading 9/20/2005, News Wire Feed Light. "Kotura Expands Board". Light Reading. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  12. "NVIDIA: World Leader in Artificial Intelligence Computing". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  13. Clifford, Tyler (2020-04-28). "Nvidia completes 'homerun deal' after closing $7 billion acquisition of Mellanox". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  14. Lazard (2021). [ a "T100 Update"]. Lazard. Retrieved 30 September 2021. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  15. "Rockley Photonics strikes agreements with two medical device manufacturers". Med-Tech Innovation | Latest news for the medical device industry. 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  16. "Rockley launches highly integrated DBR laser for high-volume sensing and imaging markets". www.semiconductor-today.com. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  17. "Realising the true potential of silicon photonics | Electro Optics". www.electrooptics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  18. "Engineers receive silver innovation awards". theguardian.com. 29 May 2002. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  19. "Silver Medal - 1995-2014 winners". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 30 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b176400-ec8a-11dd-a534-0000779fd2ac.html?siteedition=uk#axzz3xhvTiBSM
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