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To our new Chair,

Since setting up the Catapult five years ago, despite two of those years being affected by the Covid pandemic, the impact of our work is now beginning to be significant in ensuring that our outcomes will support sustained UK compound semiconductor industry growth. Today the Catapult has more than 140 collaboration partners.

The compound semiconductor industry is expected to grow from a current market value of $67 billion to over $350 billion in ten years. Growing the UK proportion of the global market by just 1% will create a sizeable economic return, benefiting companies across the UK in what is going to be an increasingly competitive global market.

This will require sustained coordination, maintaining the UK’s academic lead, and aligning the industry with the greatest global opportunities; the Catapult is playing a central coordination role. To deliver that vision, we must continue to grow our collaborative activities, find new opportunities to work with industry, accelerate commercial scale-up, up skill a new generation, safeguard intellectual property and reach out to new international partners to address new and emerging markets.

The pace of developments at the Catapult has certainly accelerated over the past year since the impact of the pandemic began to recede. We have topped one hundred employees and forged some significant international partnerships; we have entered a strategic innovation partnership with Siemens to accelerate the development of leading-edge power electronics capability. This partnership model, a first for both companies in the UK, will focus on the development of disruptive power electronics and building advanced skills in the UK.

Compound semiconductor applications have unrivalled power to help us thrive, connect, and explore. Next-generation technologies, from electric vehicles to satellite communications and remote health monitoring require them; our journey to Net Zero cannot achieved without them. The UK is equipped to lead the world in their design, development, and commercialisation.

The Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult is underpinning a growing UK success story with support and collaboration from government, industry, and academia.

We seek a Chair who will lead and guide the board through the next phase of its exciting development, creating a globally competitive UK Compound Semiconductor industry.

Rob Bryan (Interim Chair) and Martin McHugh (CEO)