Antenova
www.antenova.comAntenova Limited develops and supplies High Dielectric Antenna (HDA™) technology and integrated radio antenna products. It provides antennas that are smaller, higher in efficiency and offer more robust performance for mobile handsets, PC cards and laptop applications. Antenova’s integrated RF antenna solutions enable rapid product development, from the R&D stage through to manufacturing and quality control. Antenova’s products are suitable for an extensive range of applications, including GSM and CDMA, 3G, GPS, 802.11 a/b/g and Bluetooth markets.
The technology concepts behind Antenova stem from the research collaboration of Sheffield University, UK and of Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. In June 1999, Sheffield University approached Pilgrim Beart, former CEO of activeRF for funding to support a PhD programme on antenna design. Pilgrim Beart became very interested in the technology and saw considerable commercial potential. After conducting some commercial and technical due-diligence to establish uniqueness, it was decided to form a separate company to exploit the intellectual property and Antenova was formed in the same month
Staff
 Greg McCray, Chief Executive OfficerGreg is an experienced executive with over 20 years of international marketing and management experience in the communications technology industry. Prior to Antenova, he was the CEO of the wireless start-up PipingHot Networks, where they successfully raised $27M US in venture capital funding and brought broadband fixed wireless access equipment to market. Previous to PipingHot, Greg was Senior VP Customer Operations at Lucent Technologies where he managed the 1500 person Customer Technical Operations Group for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He preceded this by leading sales operations for the Eastern Region of the United States for Lucent. Earlier in his career he held engineering, product management and other managerial roles at AT&T and IBM. Greg holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University, an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Purdue University, and Executive Business Programs at the University of Illinois, Harvard, and INSEAD. |  Professor Simon Kingsley, Chief Scientist & Co-inventorAs Chief Scientist and co-inventor of the technology, Simon has overall responsibility for determining and carrying out research activities. He has academic qualifications in Physics, Radio Astronomy and Space Physics and a lifetime of research into radar and antennas, including 4 years at GEC Marconi Research Centre developing over-the-horizon radar systems. He is a visiting professor at Sheffield University, a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and in 1997 he was an IEE Faraday lecturer |
Contact details
Albert Road
Stow-cum-Quy
Cambridge
CB5 9AR UK
Tel: +44 (0)1223 810600
Fax: +44 (0)1223 810650
