John Bainbridge is the CTO of Silistix. He holds an MEng in Electronic Engineering and his British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Award winning PhD was received in 2000 from the University of Manchester, UK. John has worked on interconnect techniques for the past 10 years, which have been demonstrated on a number of working fabricated prototype chips and published in books, conferences and journals. He formed Silistix Ltd in 2003 to exploit the CHAIN self-timed networking technology that he developed as a postdoctoral Research Fellow. Dr Bainbridge is a member of several conference technical program committees, including the Async series and NoCs, both directly related to this project.