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LastMile boasts a leadership team that draws on varied and highly experienced backgrounds, giving the company a strong blend of business expertise and technology 'know how'.
Frank Bishop was the originator of the concept of roadside to vehicle communication that later was the genesis of LastMile Communications, Ltd.
Frank's vision came to life with Tim Crocker's extensive engineering insight and John Brandwood's financial skill and backing of this vision.
The founders acknowledge with gratitude the valued input of Antony Abell (Tony) with whom they had been able realize the vision.
Frank Bishop
Non Executive Director and Co-founder
Frank's expertise covers a period of 40 years in the Induction Heating industry, during this time Frank has held several senior engineering and design roles with major companies within the Induction Heating industry.
Prior to becoming the initial visionary and co-founder of LastMile Communications, Frank has run his own consultancy business for several years, applying his knowledge to the Induction Heating Trade to several countries throughout the world.
Tim Crocker
Chief Technology Officer, Director and Co-founder
As co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tim brings wealth of scientific and technology work experience to LastMile Communications.
Tim has been an innovation physicist and engineer since graduating from university in 1974, going first into oil exploration, and then mainstream electronic design. In 1978 he returned to academic life at the UK ‘Institute of Oceanographic Sciences', being credited as sole researcher producing the first working ship-borne ‘Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler', and a seminal published paper on the work that set out all the principles for what is now a mainstream ocean research tool. This work was at the forefront of digital signal processing at the time, giving him a strong background at a theoretical level that now plays strongly into the work of LastMile Communications in wireless digital communications. However he preferred commercial life, returning initially in a sales role in the geophysics industry.
Tim's work over the past 15 years contracted with a small group of client companies, with two main application areas, ocean science and industrial communication and control. These include Valeport Ltd, Scimar Engineering Ltd, 3DI, Geotek Ltd among others. He was involved with provision of many ocean science systems, including deep-water Gamma spectrometers for the IAEA, and acoustic equipment for universities and oil companies around the world. He has received a number of the British government’s Department of Trade & Industry SMART R&D awards.
Tim has been granted several patents in variety of technologies, including a fundamental design for electrical power conversion for Green energy and electric vehicles
Tim was educated at Bedales School and Bristol University, obtaining a BSc in Physics in 1974.
John Brandwood
Non Executive Director and Co-founder
John is a co-founder of the company which was formed in 1999. John graduated from Leeds University in 1969 and commenced teaching secondary aged pupils before opening a residential school in 1984 for children with special educational needs in Devon which he ran for 14 years. In addition to this, John set up and was Principal of a residential college for young adults from 1990 until 1997. John was the first Chairman of LastMile Communications and he contributed to market research in the initial stages. John is a successful businessman, who is also Director of an Exeter based construction company building executive homes in the South West of England and has business interest in Menorca and Mallorca.
Antony Abell, MinstD, MILT, CIM
Chairman
As Chairman of LastMile Communications, Antony takes on the role of lead representative of the Company's aims and policies to the outside world, while providing leadership to the Company's Board of Directors to ensure its effectiveness in setting and implementing corporate direction and strategy. In addition Antony leads the fundraising initiatives on behalf of the Company.
Antony has two decades of business experience working in both operational and entrepreneurial roles in a number of global markets. He also has an extensive background in military communications that he applied after leaving the British Forces and joining Videotron in the cable communications industry. For the past decade this experience has come from his work with fast growing start up companies, including his own first start up, C-Three Logistics Limited, which he founded in 1995.
Both a citizen of Canada and the United Kingdom, Antony’s experience spans the Atlantic and includes roles at the House of Commons, Chairman of the Bandsharing Forum, nearly a decade in the British Army as well as coach and manager of British National Cross Country Ski Team that competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics.
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