Jalal Bagherli is a semiconductor executive with great interest in creating high growth businesses around new products and ventures; Jalal has been CEO of Dialog Semiconductor plc, a specialist chip company in mixed signal connectivity and power management products for mobile and IOT devices since September 2005. Jalal was previously CEO of Alphamosaic, a Cambridge based start-up specialising in mobile video and multimedia processor chips from 2001 to 2004. In 2004, he completed the trade sale of Alphamosaic to Broadcom Corporation. He became a VP and GM of the multimedia business at Broadcom to oversee Alphamosaic’s integration. Prior to Alphamosaic, Jalal spent 6 years with Sony Europe, ultimately as the VP in charge of the semiconductor products operation in Europe. Jalal also worked for Texas Instruments for 9 years in the UK and France, managing many advanced semiconductor technology projects and customer specific chips for companies in consumer and telecommunications segments in Europe and the Far East. Jalal holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Electronic Engineering from Essex University and a PhD in Electronics from University of Kent at Canterbury, England.