John joined ARM in February 2002 taking responsibility for their platform architecture roadmap. More recently he has been responsible for the market development of multiprocessing technology and the release of ARM11 MPCore(tm) the first scalable SMP core. Prior to working at ARM, he worked for Microsoft for 5 years, firstly as Group Program Manager in the Exchange Server group and latterly as the manager for its Wireless Telephony group responsible for product, the definition and strategy of mobile devices. Graduating from the University of York with a BSc in Computer Science, John has over 20 years experience in the engineering industry.