Forefront RF appoints Ben Bartram as VP of Engineering
Cambridge UK, October 24. Forefront RF, a fabless semiconductor company based in Cambridge, UK, is pleased to announce that Ben Bartram has joined the company as VP of Engineering. His expertise in the field of envelope tracking combined with developing and launching RF technologies at scale will be pivotal Forefront RF achieving its product development milestones in line with the company’s ambitious growth plans.
Ben has experience in both the startup and enterprise sectors. He has held senior engineering positions with a number of leading semiconductor companies including Nurija (where he was instrumental to developing the MIPI eTrak specification), Qualcomm, Sony Ericsson, and TTP Com. Subsequent to Nurija’s acquisition by Qualcomm he continued to lead the design of complex multi-band measurement systems for satellite and wireless communications devices.
“I’m delighted to be joining this disruptive company during such an exciting growth phase,”, says Ben Bartram, VP of Engineering at Forefront RF. “The company’s tunable duplexer technology could be a game changer for the industry and I’m looking forward to working with such a talented team.”
“Ben’s experience in this market will be invaluable to the commercialisation of our ForetuneTM technology and we are delighted to have him on board,” says Ronald Wilting, CEO at Forefront RF. “Increased data usage on mobile devices globally is driving the need for more spectrum and frequency bands. This is having a knock-on effect on mobile radio front end designs causing size and space issues for OEMs.”
Forefront RF’s unique technology is poised to dramatically reduce the number and types of components needed in present-day smartphones and other mobile devices by replacing them with a single frequency-agnostic module that is dynamically tuneable according to available frequencies and/or services required. This in turn simplifies manufacture and supply chain processes, lowers overall costs and helps drive down C02 emissions.