Antony Dixon

Chief Executive Officer

Antony has 12 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 Times-7 Holdings.

Prior to helping launch 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 (now part of Infinity), Cardinal Network (now Jade) and National Bank.

Philip Mossman

VP & General Manager, Sales & Marketing

Philip's areas of expertise are finance and management and he offers extensive corporate and private enterprise experience.

Philip qualified as a chartered accountant in 1986 and began his career in private practice with Esam, Cushing & Co. Chartered Accountants in Hastings.

His corporate experience includes seven years at Brierley Investments initially as head office accountant in Wellington and then as director and company secretary in Sydney. During his time at Brierleys he helped establish the company's presence in Australia in 1990, taking direct control of the BIL Australian subsidiaries, investment interests and share portfolio.

Philip was later appointed financial controller, director and majority shareholder for Countrywide GMS, a UK grounds maintenances services provider. In 2000 he was involved in a successful sale/management buyout of the UK business and retained a minority shareholding.

In 2006, Philip was involved in the merger of Unipac with Apollo Fruit to form Apollo Pac, one of the largest vertically integrated growers, packers, cool-store providers and marketers of apples in New Zealand. He remains an Apollo Pac director and shareholder.

Murray Andersen

Director

Murray's areas of expertise are sports timing, event management and sports software. A keen sportsman, Murray's interest in sports led to his development of Sportscore, a world-leading sports management software program. Sportscore was four years in the making and was developed at CodeNZ Ltd between 2003 and 2007.

Murray has extensive private enterprise experience, having owned and managed a range of successful businesses for over 35 years, beginning with a real estate and development company, Andersen's Developments and Real Estate, in 1970.

He was a director and major shareholder of VIS Applications, an industrial flooring company in Australia; Twyford Orchards, a Hastings apple orchard; and Kowhai Stud, a thoroughbred horse stud in Hastings.

Murray was also the managing director of, and a major shareholder in, Grovedale Coolstores Ltd, which he took from a start-up to becoming New Zealand's largest cold storage and export logistics operation.

Murray has represented New Zealand in gymnastics and contract bridge and is a keen athlete, skier and tramper. He serves on a number of sports bodies including NZ Masters Athletics Executive and Athletics NZ.

Ko Buijnsters

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.  

As a director and part-owner of Times-7 Holdings Ltd, Ko represents Times-7 in Europe, with a specific focus on developing channels to market and further investment partners.

Antony Dixon

Chief Executive Officer

Philip Mossman

VP & General Manager, Sales & Marketing

Dr. Warren Young

Chief Technology Officer

Warren has an extensive background in hardware and software development specialising in the electronics industry.

As leader of the research and development team, Warren owns intellectual property creation for Times-7. He is a motivational team-leader able to communicate with a broad range of people, and has extensive experience as a developer, project and programme manager.

Prior to Times-7, Warren served as chief project engineer and programme manager in the research and development team of Oscmar International (now Cubic Defence NZ). He also held the position of development manager for Enermet (NZ) and regional IT manager for Enermet Australia/NZ.

Warren has a BSc in physics and computer science from Waikato University; an MSc with distinction (in electronics) from Otago University; and a PhD in electrical engineering from Edinburgh University.

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.

Neil Fallow

VP & General Manager, Systems Integration

Neil has more than 25 years of experience in business development, account management and strategic consulting. He has spent many years selling and delivering technology based solutions that solve business needs in new, innovative ways. He is experienced at identifying opportunities and translating business need into sales and then operational reality, assisting organisations move quickly from requirements identification to solution selection, development, implementation and business improvement. He is focussed on ensuring the solutions sold and delivered achieve desired business outcomes and enhance business performance. 

His areas of expertise include technology enabled change, customer and supplier relationship management, project management, strategic planning, business concept development and implementation, business process analysis, and business innovation and change. He has extensive industry and business knowledge, and broad technology skills. 

Prior to joining Times-7 Neil founded and led a business change and innovation consulting practice as director of Kio Consulting. It focussed on introducing enabling technology then assisting organisations make the necessary business process and culture changes to leverage the value of their investment. This included knowledge and information management engagements with Fonterra business units and sites around New Zealand, and establishing and running Fonterra's InfoHelp programme. 

Neil has held account manager, business development and consultant positions at Gen-i, EDS New Zealand and PriceWaterhouse, where he worked with clients such as utility companies, government departments, health boards, banks and insurance companies. 

Neil has also held positions as developer, programmer, change manager and project manager at a number of banking and finance organisations in New Zealand, Japan, the UK and Australia. 

Neil is a "passionate Kiwi". He enjoys travelling overseas, and is keenly involved in his children's activities - swimming, underwater hockey, kendo and classical guitar.

Arthur Roberts

Senior Research Engineer

Arthur is an engineer with more than 30 years' experience in telecommunications engineering.

At Times-7 Arthur is responsible for designing UHF readers and tags including power amplifiers, RF splitters, switches and semi-active UHF tags. His role includes hands-on building and testing of prototype designs, and using and programming HP measurement equipment.

Born in Russia, Arthur has an engineering qualification from Moscow Telecommunications University. His first job was at the Moscow Radio-Engineering R&D Institute, where he held various positions from engineer to the position of chief of laboratory.

Since then, Arthur's career has included roles as a 3G systems test engineer at Lucent Technologies, programmer at Catalyst Systems, and RF engineer at Deltec Telesystems and Eyecom NZ. Arthur has worked in a wide range of RF engineering roles for companies in Australia, South Korea and Russia. His most recent position before joining Times-7 was as a director of RFRD Ltd in Wellington.

Arthur's wealth of experience in computer programming, electrical and RF engineering has resulted in the filing of numerous patents for RF antennae design which he holds.

Paul Meier

Senior Research Engineer

Paul is an R&D engineer with expertise in the fields of antenna and RF design. He graduated with a BE in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Auckland in 1998. After cutting his teeth as a Network Engineer for Saturn Communications (now Telstra Clear) and a Design Engineer for Exicom Technologies, Paul decided to spend some time living and working overseas. He settled in Switzerland and spent 7 years in the R&D group of Ascom (Switzerland) Ltd. Mirroring Ascom's broad involvement in wireless technologies, Paul worked on a diverse range of successful projects, including powerline communications, wireless power transfer, in-tunnel communications systems and antenna design for hearing aids, mobile phones and other wireless devices.

Paul has recently returned to New Zealand and is now looking forward putting his knowledge and experience to good use at Times-7, working in with the other engineers to bring innovative and practical products to the market.

Neil Thackeray

Development Engineer

Neil is an RFID development engineer/production engineer with a wealth of development experience. At Times-7, Neil's role involves new product design, prototyping and testing. 

Neil began his career at Tait Communications as a customer services engineer, with project management and team management responsibilities. While working at Tait, he completed a New Zealand Certificate in Engineering Telecommunications. 

Neil's most recent position prior to joining Times-7 was at Eyecom New Zealand Limited/Guangzhou Eyecom Technologies, where he was responsible for liaising between the New Zealand R&D team and the China-based production department. He also worked in antenna development and production engineering for Andrew New Zealand. 

Outside of work, Neil's a motor sport enthusiast, building and modifying cars as well as racing. He's also Times-7's resident connoisseur of good food and coffee.

Michael Lynch

General Manager

Michael is hugely experienced in engineering management. During his career, he has spent 15 years in management positions in operational and research-and-development roles, the last 5 years as part of the senior management team for PDL Electronics Ltd, a member of the Schneider Group of companies. In his last year, Michael led the management team, stepping up from previous senior positions including plant manager and operations manager.

At Wellington's Interlock Group, Michael was a technical services team leader. He was responsible for establishing a number of cross-functional teams and implementing an integrated product development process resulting in a 50% reduction in product development time. He also worked as the information systems team leader and as product design engineer at Interlock where he was awarded a patent for locking telescoping elements.

In his spare time Michael's interests include property investment, soccer, indoor netball and volleyball and skiing.

He coaches a junior soccer team and was a member of the New Zealand mixed dragon boat team that won a bronze medal in the 1995 World Championships in China.

Murray Andersen

Director

Peter Armson

General Manager Sales, Australia

Peter has extensive sales experience and has spent in excess of 16 years at some of Australia's largest blue-chip FMCG organizations in a variety of roles encompassing sales, field, category and account management.

Peter's most recent sales roles, over the last eight years, were for Australia's largest food manufacturer Goodman Fielder. He initially worked as a team leader on a profitability project delivering double-digit profit growth through pricing and event probability modeling and implementation. He also successfully developed head office relationships across a number of categories and accounts consistently delivering results.

Prior to Goodman Fielder, Peter worked for Optus in the late nineties, where he led a 65-strong national sales force in the booming environment of pre-paid mobile phones resulting in 40% year-on-year growth. Initially from the UK, Peter's first sales job in Australia was with Mars Confectionery, where over five years he earnt numerous state and national awards.

Peter enjoys keeping fit with regular gym visits, cycling, playing golf and soccer with his three sons. Now a qualified coach, he has played semi-professional soccer in three countries.