Oliver has over 18 years experience in marketing and business development with technology companies. In 1995 he joined ARM to lead its mobile activities, initially working in Europe and then later in Japan and Silicon Valley. Over 12 years at ARM he licensed HW and SW to both semiconductor companies and mobile OEM’s and delivered a de facto standard for mobile CPU’s. His last role at ARM was Vice President of corporate business development and M&A. In 2007 he joined video H.264 start-up W&W Communications as Vice President of Mobile business (acquired by Cavium). Prior to Founding NGCodec he was a business development consultant to a number of mobile start-ups in the OS, Security, Imaging and battery areas.

Oliver holds a Bachelor's degree with honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Greenwich London, UK and a Mini-MBA from the AeA/Executive Institute, Stanford University Graduate School of Business