Antony Abell, MinstD, MILT, CIM
Chief Executive Officer and Director
 As Chief Executive Officer 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.
Skip Ballou
President (Americas, Asia-Pacific) and Director
 As President of LastMile Communications for the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions, Skip’s primary focus is coordinating all of Last Mile’s activities in the U.S., with ultimate responsibility for the Americas and Asia Pacific. His responsibilities include managing the company’s IBM partnership activities (channel sales, global services and global maintenance/support) along with third party contract manufacturing, as well as establishing industry vertical, best of breed solutions.
Skip’s previous roles include Executive Vice President of Business Development and Intellectual Property at Raleigh, North Carolina-based World Theatre, Inc., where he had complete corporate responsibility for strategic business development and global relations, as well as the creation and management of executive relationships with Fortune 100 companies such GE, AT&T, and IBM.
During his time at World Theatre, Skip co-invented and filed 29 technology patent applications related to revolutionizing the entertainment and advertising industries.
In addition, Skip enjoyed a long varied career with IBM from 1981-2000, holding various sales positions for different U.S. regions and Asia Pacific.
Tim Crocker
Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder
 As co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tim brings a wealth of scientific, engineering and business expertise to LastMile Communications.
Tim graduated from Bristol University in Physics in 1974, going first into oil exploration, and then mainstream ‘big company’ 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 LMC in wireless digital communications. However he preferred commercial life, returning initially in a sales role in the geophysics industry.
Since then he was Chief Engineer at Valeport Ltd, and started setting up his own business, Scimar Engineering Ltd in 1987, and then the 3DI companies with others. Working with Geotek Ltd, Scimar 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 DTI SMART R&D awards and several granted patents in very different technologies, including a fundamental design for electrical power conversion for Green energy and electric vehicles, which is just about to be launched into the market. He is the principal author of the granted LMC patent, with three more in application, and has another three in draft.
Carlos de Mendoza
Vice President of Marketing
Carlos is Vice President of Marketing at LastMile Communications, where he is responsible for strategy, product management, product marketing and marketing communications.
Before joining LastMile in early 2006, Carlos worked as a strategy consultant on tracking and RFID solutions and was a senior manager at Carbonaphta on upstream projects with traders Shell and Total.
Carlos has an MBA and a Master of Science in Information Systems from Boston University where he graduated with high honours. He also earned a Masters in Political Science from the Pantheon-Assas University in Paris, France.
Darren West
Financial Controller
Darren is the Financial Controller at LastMile Communications.
He has held senior internal audit roles for a total of nine years with a range of high profile companies such as Allied Domecq and Budget Rent A Car.
For the past eight years he has also held a series of financial roles at senior level with Kerry, Nortel Networks and Bookham.
Darren is a qualified Chartered Accountant and trained in the City of London.
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