James D. Y. Collier

Education

Collier was born in December 1958. He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics. Collier also served as director UbiNetics IP Ltd from 2005. Neul was based in Cambridge Science Park and developed wireless network technology to enable the use of the white space spectrum. Neul had a change of management in 2013 after Collier was ousted by the investors. Neul was not successful in commercialising weightless technology and was later acquired by Huawei in 2014 for $25 million USD. Glenn Collinson and Chris Ladas for their work on Bluecore. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016 and is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).