Martin Guthrie

Martin Guthrie has >30 years in electrical engineering. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan. Martin spent 15 years at RIM/BB with roles in IC design, Hardware and Software and management. Martin’s patent portfolio includes designs for USB battery charging (which eventually became part of the USB standard) and “power path management (PPM)” which is the architecture used in Texas Instruments line of BQ chargers. For many years at BB Martin’s team was focused on Blackberry phone battery life, responsible for the power distribution and battery life of the entire phone, as well as qualifying and specifying batteries. Martin’s team, with cooperation with Texas Instruments, developed three custom Power Management ICs (PMIC) used in many BB GSM phones. Post Blackberry Martin worked at a startup that built an 800um thick smart credit card that included a display with touchscreen, BLE with a 17mAhr battery.