Director of China Britain Business Council Graham Curren attends prestigious UK-China business dinner at the Natural History Museum
Theale, UK – July 2014…Graham Curren, CEO of Sondrel, one of the world’s leading system-to-silicon IC design consultancies, met Chinese Premier Li Kequiang at a glittering gala dinner for 650 guests at the Natural History Museum in London on June 24. The UK-China Business Dinner was held in honour of Premier Li’s visit to the UK accompanied by a large delegation of his ministers and SOE chairmen.
The China-Britain Business Council played a prominent role over the three days of Premier Li’s official visit, working with partners and stakeholders from the UK and Chinese governments to support a number of events. Guests at the dinner heard welcome speeches from CBBC Chairman Lord Sassoon and China’s Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng, as well as the keynote addresses from Premier Li Kequiang and UK Chancellor George Osborne.
Sondrel’s CEO, Graham Curren, comments: It was an honour to meet Premier Li and his wife Cheng Hong during his visit. In his keynote speech, Premier Li stated that his country is ready to work with the UK to foster a partnership for growth and inclusive development to ensure the relationship between our two countries grows faster and in a healthier way. At Sondrel we have been building our business in China since 2008, and believe that it is our philosophy of developing strong partnerships that provided the foundation of our success there. The dinner was an excellent opportunity for CBBC members to meet and network with the visiting delegation and was deemed by everyone fortunate enough to be present as a great success. ”
Following the office trade visit, the UK Department of Trade & Investment announced that £14 billion of trade and investment deals have been signed between UK and Chinese firms.
About Sondrel
Success through Partnership is the philosophy of Sondrel, one of the world’s leading system-to-silicon IC consultancies. For Sondrel, Partnership means sharing the responsibility to get a project done for the mutual benefit of all parties – customer, design house, foundries and tools & IP providers. Established in 2002, Sondrel has the largest and most experienced consulting team in Europe, with wide ranging expertise across all aspects of the design flow and all industry-standard EDA tool suits. The company’s capabilities cover the entire IC design spectrum from RTL design, though verification, emulation and DFT to physical implementation, and include power analysis and yield management. Sondrel is experienced in highly-complex digital, mixed signal, analogue, low power and wireless designs having completed over 200 designs at a range of process geometries down to 14nm, all of which were delivered right first time. With offices in the UK, USA, France, Italy, Israel, Sweden, Finland and China, Sondrel provides flexible services and methodology consulting to many of the world’s leading semiconductor companies, enabling them to improve chip performance and reduce timescales and costs.
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