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Colin McKellar

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Director of Verification at lowRISC CIC
📍 Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom

Colin McKellar is a semiconductor industry veteran with three decades of experience in design and verification. He is the Director of Verification at lowRISC and holds advisory roles at X-Silicon and Axiomise. His career includes extensive leadership at Imagination Technologies, where he was instrumental in developing world-class verification infrastructures for graphics and AI. He holds a certification in Finance for Non Finance Directors.

He has successfully managed large, multinational teams of more than 200 engineers throughout his career.

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Experience
30 Years
Current Role
Director of Verification
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom
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SoC Verification
His entire career has focused on creating verification infrastructures, combining simulation, formal methods, FPGAs, and emulation for complex GPU, CPU, and AI chips.
Formal Verification
Actively promotes making formal verification a standard practice, as seen in his professional activities and social media posts like "Making formal normal one step at a time. "
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Career

Work history

2-2026
Director of Verification
lowRISC CIC
5-2024
Member of the Technical Advisory Board
Axiomise
1-2023
Vice President of Engineering
X-Silicon Inc
7-2018 - 9-2022
Vice President
Imagination technologies
7-2012 - 7-2018
Senior Director PowerVR
Imagination technologies
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