Ben co-founded UK self-driving software startup, FiveAI, in 2015 and amongst other responsibilities, leads a team of technical product managers tasked with defining what constitutes safe driving in urban environments. Previously, Ben was an executive responsible for product strategy at Neul, which pioneered the NB-IoT communications standard which was ratified by 3GPP in R13 and is now supported by over 20 of the world’s largest mobile network operators. Neul also developed leading IoT software and chipsets for NB-IoT, leading to its successful acquisition by Huawei in 2014. Before entering the start-up world he was a senior leader for 6 years in NXP Semiconductor’s automotive group, based in Germany. Ben began his career as a senior applications engineer at RF Solutions, working on machine communication systems. Ben is a graduate in Electronic Engineering from the University of Brighton and holds an MBA from the University of Warwick.