Primary Job Title Entrepreneur in Residence Primary Organization 
SETsquared
Location Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Rick Chapman has 30 years of experience working in high tech industries, predominantly Semiconductors and Software. After 5 years with Marconi, Rick joined STMicroelectronics in 1990. Over nearly 12 years, he held a variety of international positions, including Semicustom R&D Director and Business Development Director, Microprocessors.
Since
2001, Rick has worked with several start-ups. He was a founding executive of SuperH Inc., an intellectual property licensing company and, as VP of Business Development, he delivered revenue growth from zero to $7m in two years. After a spell as CTO of Cobault Ltd, a CRM software company, he joined Spiral Gateway Ltd, a semiconductor start-up designing an innovative microprocessor architecture. As CTO of Reveal2me Ltd, he helped bring a disruptive content delivery platform for smart phones to market.
He is currently Director of the Microelectronics iNet, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in SETsquared Bristol and works with other organisations in Bristol & Bath supporting the high tech cluster, including his role as High Tech Sector Specialist for Invest Bristol & Bath.
