Eben Upton

Eben Upton
Upton at the Alan Turing festival, Edinburgh 2012 by Jim Killock
Born	Eben Christopher Upton (1978-04-05) 5 April 1978 (age 39) Pontypool, Wales, United Kingdom
Institutions	St John's College, Cambridge Raspberry Pi Foundation University of Cambridge Ideaworks3D Broadcom Intel IBM
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA) Cambridge Computer Lab (PhD) Cambridge Business School (MBA)
Thesis	Compiling with data dependence graphs (2006)
Doctoral advisor	Martin Richards
Known for	Raspberry Pi
Notable awards	MIT TR35 (2012) Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal
Spouse	Liz Upton
Website twitter.com/EbenUpton uk.linkedin.com/in/ebenupton www.raspberrypi.org/archives/author/eben

Eben Christopher Upton CBE (born 5 April 1978) is a Welsh technical director and ASIC architect for Broadcom. He is also a founder and former trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and now CEO of Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd., the wholly owned subsidiary which runs the engineering and trading activities of the Foundation. He is also responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device.

Upton completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Engineering in 1999 at the University of Cambridge. He went on to do the Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science graduating in 2001. After his diploma, Upton went on to study for a Doctor of Philosophy degree in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. After finishing his PhD he completed an executive Master of Business Administration at the Cambridge Judge Business School while working in industry.

Prior to working at Broadcom, Upton was Director of Studies in Computer Science at St John's College, Cambridge with responsibility for undergraduate admissions and organising teaching for St John's undergraduate students on the Computer Science Tripos.