Quantum boosts capacitive-touch licensing efforts with appointment of ARM veteran, Duncan Bryan

New Cambridge (UK) office planned to support recruitment drive

Southampton, UK: Quantum Research Group, the charge-transfer (QT) capacitive touch company, announces the appointment of Duncan Bryan to boost the company’s drive for licensing deals with semiconductor companies. Hans van der Linde, whose appointment to set up the licensing business unit at Quantum was announced earlier this year, will focus on developing licensing deals with end customers for the company’s charge-transfer touch screen and touch control technologies. At the same time, the privately held, Hamble (UK) - based company has revealed plans to open an office in Cambridge by the end of the year with a view to attracting more design and marketing talent to the business, which is maintaining growth rates in excess of 80% per annum.

Duncan Bryan moves to Quantum Research from Beach Solutions where he was Alliances and Partnerships Director. Prior to this he spent 8 years at ARM, primarily in the development systems business unit, where he held software engineering, product management, partnership development and IP licensing roles.

Bryan (37) holds a BSc (Hons) in Computing Systems from Nottingham Trent University.