The intrinsic team

Intrinsic is a UCL spinout company, established to commercialise the novel memristive RRAM devices.

Dr Mark Dickinson
CEO

Prior to joining Intrinsic Mark held a number of senior and executive positions at leading semiconductor companies and brings a deep experience in IP licensing and development. He was most recently at Imagination Technologies where he was Executive Vice President responsible for the circa $100m PowerVR business unit. Prior to Imagination Mark was at ARM as VP/General Manager of the Mali GPU/multimedia business unit. Mark also spent many years as a vice president at Altera, an FPGA company now owned by Intel, where he built up the UK R&D team as well as running a world-wide system IP development group.

Professor Tony Kenyon
Co-Founder, CSO

Tony Kenyon is the Vice Dean (Strategy) for the Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Professor of Nanoelectronic & Nanophotonic Materials in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, UCL. His research interests include resistance switching; RRAM; neuromorphic devices; nanostructured materials for electronics and photonics; silicon photonics, and self-assembled nanoscale systems. He has published more than 100 journal papers and is a Fellow of both the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dr Adnan Mehonic
Co-Founder, CTO

Adnan Mehonic is an Associate Professor in Nanoelectronics and Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering at the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, UCL. He has authored over 100 journal publications and international conference proceedings on memristive technology. In 2021, He was named to MIT Technology Review’s annual list of Innovators under 35. Adnan’s research activities include developing energy-efficient nanoelectronics, specifically memory and computing systems based on memristors.

Dr Wing Ng
Head of Process and
Device Engineering

Wing has over 15 years of experience in design and fabrication of novel semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic structures and devices at nanoscale, including memory devices, semiconductor lasers, and nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) for optical storage applications. He is also a visiting researcher/lecturer at University College London, UK.

Ben Jones
IC Design Director

Ben joined Intrinsic from AMD’s Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group (formerly Xilinx), where he led a team of engineers responsible for high-speed signal processing in FPGAs. He has 22 years’ experience in bringing digital circuit designs to market, both as licensed IP blocks and as part of deep-submicron tapeouts. Ben holds a first class Master’s degree in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College, London, and is named as inventor on 11 US patents in the field of digital IC design..

Dr Fernando Aguirre
Senior Device Engineer

Prior to joining Intrinsic, Fernando was a post-doctoral researcher at the Electronics Engineering Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). He also served as Scientific Consultant for the Physical Science and Engineering Division from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia). Fernando has held teaching positions at the National University of Technology (Argentina) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has published more than 50 articles in top scientific journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials, Advanced Intelligent Systems, and IEEE Access, and won several best paper awards from IEEE conferences. He is member of the IEEE and the editorial board of Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier), and served in the technical program committees of numerous IEEE conferences.

Dr Matt Schormans
Senior Analog Design Engineer

Matthew is an experienced designer of integrated analog/mixed-signal circuits and systems in both academic and industrial contexts, across a variety of applications. These include RRAM memory cell design, wireless power systems for biomedical implants, support electronics for quantum computing, and analog interface circuits for integrated PUFs.

Matt has experience in all stages of the chip design and development process, from schematic design to lab testing. He has published several journal and conference articles in IEEE transactions and proceedings, and he holds both MEng and PhD degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London.

Fabrizio Cabaleiro
Senior AI Engineer

Fabrizio is an AI research and software engineer with over 11 years’ experience working on optimisation of AI workloads. He has experience at all stages of the stack from high level AI frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch down to specific instruction set architectures. He was most recently at Imagination Technologies optimising hardware and software for artificial intelligence applications targeting embedded RISC-V CPUs, PowerVR GPUs, and neural network accelerators. Fabrizio holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Chile.

Independent Directors

Dr Giorgio Anania
Chairman

Dr Giorgio Anania has spent 40 years in senior management or on boards at high-technology companies, from start-up ventures to multinational public companies. He has started or participated in seven start-ups in the US, UK, France and Germany leading to three successful IPOs on NASDAQ and LSE and has raised over $1.7 billion in public and private financing. Giorgio is on the board of Renaissance Fusion, a French fusion start-up, and VP of Photonics21, an EU public-private Partnership which he cofounded. Until Q3-2023 he was chairman and CEO at Aledia, a developer of micro-LED displays where he raised over €300M. Previously Giorgio was CEO of Bookham (now Lumentum), which he grew from a start-up and turned into a listed company with over 2000 staff. Giorgio was also chairman of Sicoya (Berlin), sold in 2021, and Cube Optics, sold in 2015.

Nigel Toon
Director

Nigel is currently CEO of Graphcore, a company based in Bristol-UK that has developed a new type of processor for AI applications. Nigel has secured over $700m in funding for the company. Previously Nigel was CEO at two successful VC-backed processor companies XMOS and Picochip (sold to Nasdaq: MSPD, now Intel), a founder of Icera (sold to Nasdaq: NVDA).

Nigel has served as a Board Member and Chairman at a number of technology businesses including as non-executive director at Imagination Technologies PLC. He currently sits as a non-executive director on the main board of UK Research and Innovation. Nigel has also been a member of the UK Prime Ministers Business Council and has advised the UK Government on innovation policy.

He has been recognized with numerous industry awards including Icon of the Year at the Barclays Entrepreneurs Awards and ranked #1 on Business Insiders 100 most influential people shaping British technology.