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Gabriel Vizzard

Gabriel Vizzard

Business development executive with 24 years in information and communcations (ICT) solutions and technology.  Through 11+ years at IBM Corporation, Gabriel, helped shape and form early Intenret/Java ISV partner alliances, created new methods for managing software as a service (SaaS) and provide market breaking wireless broadband instructure solutions.  He was an early sponsor of the Wireless Internet Institute (W2i).   Today he is focused on helping end customers realize greater benefit from their IT budgets through hosted business applications and utilizing telecommunications vendor partnerships.  He has deep intercultural understanding having worked extensively in Europe, Asia and North America.

IC360 Ltd

Next generation semiconductor market value chain

What is IC360?

  • Joint Venture between Nautilus Asia Pacific Management LLC (`NAPM`_) and Tianjin Free Trade Zone (`TJFTZ`_)
  • Joint Venture agreement signed August 2009
  • IC360 Ltd founded in China September 2009
  • Creation of new semiconductor foundry starting in 2010
  • Executive headquarters based in the Western USA
  • Significant marketing presence planned for Europe

Market focus around growth segments

  • Display Products: TFT-LCD/OLED/3D drivers, scalars and controllers
  • Power management
  • Radio front-ends 
  • Embedded devices
  • Open Core – Development of open source a specialty of France which is moving towards hardware

Looking for partnerships worldwide for design and development:

  • Design shops
  • Fabless foundries
  • Develop/acquire new IP for intended markets plus IP for production methods

The rest of the story

Born in Oakland, California, USA, Gabriel Vizzard is a veteran of internet, information technology and telecommunications industries, having started with telecommunications policy and economics at graduate school followed by software, hardware and services sales in Europe and worldwide for IBM to wireline and wireless service providers and other industries. 

Mr. Vizzard is currently a director of Technovation International Ltd of Ireland and Canada providing consultation for international business development and management.  Previously, Mr. Vizzard served as board director and Chief Marketing Officer then CEO of LastMile Communications Ltd, a British telecommunications industry start-up.  At LastMile he restructured the millimetre wave radio and distributed content management software products, manufacturing and third party developer agreements.  LastMile provided WiFi and V band radio products which delivered rich media content services at the point of consumption.

Gabriel Vizzard’s last major role at IBM was as the global leader for IBM’s wireless broadband solutions.  Gabriel’s team successfully launched a range of solutions to communications and public sector customers in all of the three major geographies around the world and quadrupled its annual wireless and wireline infrastructure solutions sales over a period of three years.  Many of these projects involved mobile employee and municipal wireless solutions, especially content management services.

Earlier on at IBM Gabriel managed partner alliances, created the first ISV partner programs for Java and the internet then joined IBM headquarters working as a key member of the highly successful technical and go-to-market e-business strategy team.  He is recognized by IBM as an accomplished senior level IT architect as well as Business Development and Market Management Executive.

Prior to working at IBM, Gabriel served in a variety of IT industry positions both selling and creating solutions.   In between stints at graduate school Gabriel was a video producer and writer in the public sector.

Member: Telecommunications Professionals, Wireless Internet Industry Executives and International Business Development Leaders.

Gabriel is a dual citizen of both Ireland and the United States and currently resides near Paris.