PRESS RELEASE

11 May 2007

 

 

Sensornet Founders announce the creation of Silixa Ltd

 

The founders of Sensornet Limited, Mahmoud Farhadiroushan and Tom Parker, today announce the creation of a new venture: Silixa Limited. Silixa will focus on developing the next generation of optical fibre sensing technology and work closely with Sensornet to offer new products and services.

 

Today’s announcement is seen as a positive and beneficial step forward for both companies. Mahmoud Farhadiroushan, founding director of Silixa, states: “Optical fibres can offer many more benefits than what is achieved today and our aim with Silixa is to look beyond the current capabilities and incubate new concepts into future products. We are also looking forward to close cooperation with Sensornet to offer new ranges of products and services”

 

Neale Carter, CEO of Sensornet, adds: “Sensornet is expanding rapidly and the partnership with Silixa is the ideal way to focus effort on next generation technology which is not core to Sensornet’s current business objectives. We look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration with Silixa to the benefit of both companies”.

 

For more information please contact:

Mahmoud Farhadiroushan, CEO, Silixa Limited: mahmoud.farhadiroushan@silixa.com      www.silixa.com

 

Neale Carter, CEO, Sensornet Limited: neale.carter@sensornet.co.uk        www.sensornet.co.uk