Dan Chester

DAN CHESTER is Co-founder and Vice President Business Development of
Ignios Limited. Mr. Chester has 9 years of business development,
technical marketing and applications engineering experience, gained
through positions held in the Semiconductor, EDA automation) software
and SIP (silicon intellectual property) industries. He has experience of
negotiating high-value deals for complex products and services with
multi-national companies within European, Israeli and North American
territories. Dan’s previous experience includes technical and commercial
responsibilities held at Madge Networks, Synopsys, Altera, Chameleon
Systems and RadioScape. Having worked for both hardware and software
companies, Dan has gained specific expertise in the boundaries between
these two areas. As the European Manager (and first employee outside
North America) for Chameleon Systems – a Californian, venture capital-
financed start-up, fabless semiconductor company – Dan established a UK-
based company to become the European headquarters. Dan created the
European sales and support organisations, nurtured and supported a
direct and indirect distribution sales channel, and managed all aspects
of European customer engagement. He successfully managed a team through
long, complex, customer evaluations with two of the largest European
telecommunications companies. Dan Chester has a First-Class degree in
Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds, and has
successfully completed a number of management and sales training
courses.