Alastair David Milne is a Scottish technologist and founder and former CEO of the Wolfson Microelectronics company.
[1] In 1970, Milne joined the newly created Wolfson Industrial Liaison Unit at the University of Edinburgh.
[1] In 1973 he was promoted to director, renamed the unit as the Wolfson Microelectronics Institute and changed its focus to the design of semiconductor devices.
In 1984, he co-founded the spinout company Wolfson Microelectronics which developed audio processing products for consumer electronics made by major manufacturers including Apple Inc and Samsung.
He served as chairman of the Edinburgh International Science Festival[3] between 2007 and 2022, and as trustee and chair of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation.