Kathleen Philips

CEO

Tusk IC

Antwerp, Belgium

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Tusk IC delivers the RF antennas and chips for SatCom Ground Terminals. We address high capacity communication to LEO and multi-orbit.

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Tusk IC

Tusk IC

Antwerp, Belgium

Tusk-IC is a champion in mm-wave and RF IC design. We're on a mission to disrupt User terminals for SatCom via scalable chips sets and modular arrays. We are a passionate team that delivers excellence in everything we do. Our customer's success is what inspires us every day.
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About me

Kathleen Philips has joined Tusk IC in April 2025, as new CEO. She brings 3 decades of leadership in semicon R&D for wireless communications. In prior roles, she was VP at imec, Managing directors of imec in Holst Centre and program director. From 1995-2007 she worked at Philips Natlab Eindhoven and RedHill, as well as Philips semiconductors in Caen.

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Skills

  • Communication Systems
  • R&D collaborations
  • Roadmap building

Interests

  • mm-wave and RF IC design
  • Active Antennas
  • satellite communications
  • semiconductors
  • manpacks
  • Drones
  • backhaul hardware