Times-7's Team

Antony Dixon

Chief Executive Officer

Antony has 14 years' senior management experience and more than 20 years' experience in information technology, with in-depth knowledge of the telecommunications, government and financial services sectors. He is a director, part-owner and CEO of the Times-7 group of companies.

Prior to Times-7, Antony was general manager of outsourcing for Datacom, and led sales and marketing for the start-up Synapse Group, a developer of software for wireless telecommunications companies.

Antony has had broad executive experience in sales, marketing, business development and technical roles at large national and global corporates including EDS (NZ), IBM, Comtex Group, Cardinal Network and National Bank.

Ko Buijnsters

European Sales Director

Ko has a bachelor degree in civil-engineering and in business-management.  Best described as a successful entrepreneur, Ko has built up a number of business interests in New Zealand and The Netherlands over the last 15 years. 

After working for 5 years in Africa and Europe for Heijmans N.V., a multinational construction-company, Ko started his first enterprise in 1992, when he founded Scopo Bouwmanagement B.V., a project-management company in the Netherlands. 

Scopo Bouwmanagement B.V. expanded over time into a successful architectural business and property development company, with over 10 employees. The architectural business was successfully sold in 2006, with Ko retaining the property development interests. 

Ko's other business interests include KVL BV, a privately owned Dutch development company and Scopo NZ LTD, a New Zealand based investment company.  

Ko represents Times-7 in Europe, with a specific focus on developing channels to market and further investment partners.

Paul Roling

Operations Manager

Paul has over 20 years experience working in Hi-tech manufacturing. His years of production expertise at senior management level with sonar systems at Geoacoustics (UK) will bring to Times-7 assured quality and operations management excellence.

As Times 7 enters an exciting new growth phase Paul will manage all aspects of production and delivery to ensure consistently high standards of customer satisfaction.

Theo Ehlen

Senior Research Consultant

Theo is a natural innovator, continually identifying new ways to solve challenging technical problems. He has an extensive background in electronic design and production engineering from many years experience at Philips. During 15 years with Philips in The Netherlands, Theo travelled extensively to manufacturing plants in Taiwan, Brazil and France to assist with training on production lines.

In 1981 Theo joined Philips New Zealand as a production engineer, building small business telephone exchanges. He then moved to Exicom and later Delect NZ where he worked in VHF, UHF and wireless radio engineering roles.

In 2002 Theo started his own company, Smartwave New Zealand, and also set up Eyecom NZ. In 2005 he became a director of RFRD, working with RFID technologies.

Theo has established more than 20 patents, including a remote control down-tilt system which was pivotal to the sale of Deltec to Andrew Corporation in 2001. This system is now used by over 60 telecommunications companies worldwide including Vodafone and Telecom.