Raj has over 30 years of experience in the semiconductor field having held senior technical and commercial roles in semiconductor organisations spanning IP, Fabless and IDM business models. He is now COO of the newly formed UK Semiconductor Centre – with an ambitious plan to strengthen the UK semiconductor ecosystem and grow international partnerships.

In his early career, Raj was part of initial IEEE 802.11 team to define first WLAN standard in 1996 – a technology which has now shipped many billions of units. Raj also helped pioneer the first 3G data transmissions working with Motorola and others to demonstrate one of the first 3G video calls at the 3GSM show in 1998 – many years before 3G licences were awarded.

Raj was a founder member of 3G technology startup UbiNetics (1999), that successfully exited in 2005 for over $120m USD. As part of that deal, Raj joined CSR and ultimately took the role of VP Marketing where he was part of the team that acquired SiRF Technologies for $136m (2009) to add GPS technology to CSR portfolio. In 2012, he helped sell CSR’s handset business to Samsung in a deal worth $310m for 310 staff. As part of Samsung, Raj was promoted to VP heading up the SCSC division leading the silicon and software development for Samsung’s chipsets for over a decade, providing connectivity technology that shipped in hundreds of millions of Samsung products.

Raj has held a number of board positions including Chair of Cambridge Wireless and NED for CSA Catapult bringing experience and advice on the global semiconductor market.