Staff Profiles

Tony is experienced in starting, leading and developing innovative technology businesses involved in the design, development and production of industrial products in national and global telecoms, bio-science, automotive and packaging markets. He created Suffolk's first and only innovation centre, a £2.5m project, supporting a 17 technology based businesses. He has also worked on a consultancy basis in the public sector on projects to support entrepreneurship, innovation and provision of broadband. Tony's other current roles comprise chairman of Framlingham Technology Centre Ltd, director of FramBroadband Ltd and vice-chair of the Suffolk Development Agency Ltd.

Paul is a highly experienced sales and business development manager with a successful track record in developing and maintaining profitable customer relationships with blue chip companies in the telecoms and electronics industries. He has extensive experience of the complete sales and implementation process and after-sales account management, both in Europe and also in the USA where he worked for 5 years until joining Miniflex. Additionally, Paul has significant top level management expertise from his role as General Manager of C-MAC MicroTechnology and Export Marketing Manager of Nortel Europe.

Mark is an experienced certified accountant, having worked in nine different industries in the last 14 years. Prior to that time, Mark worked in the accountancy profession before moving into the commercial sector. Mark is experienced in take-overs, mergers, managing change in expanding organisations, implementation of MIS from scratch or upgrades, preparation of Business Plans and financial models. Additionally, Mark has taken the roles of Managing Director, Director and Company Secretary in many of the aforementioned businesses, including activity in strategic development and complete management of the work force.

Peter's thirst for solving problems through innovation has led to over 50 patents being registered during his long career at BT where he was Head of Optical Cables, Plant and Practices. Peter has since had a similar number registered for Miniflex which he formed jointly with Tony Stockman. His experience ranges from generating highly innovative solutions to technical problems in the infrastructure, to developing and implementing planning rules within the organisation, writing and presenting technical papers to the industry and contributing to international standards bodies. Peter is practised in working with global blue chip telecoms/datacoms companies and is internationally recognised as a leader in the field of fibre optics.