Tony Richardson

Group Product Director

Tony is a telecommunications entrepeneur and systems design expert with nearly 30 years industry experience. One of the early employees at Orange, Tony then helped form Aethos Communications where he was instrumental in the design and development of one of the first pre-paid cellular systems. The Aethos Service Node was attracting worldwide revenues for Aethos of over £20M per annum until the acquisition of Aethos by Logica. In 2000, alongside other Aethos colleagues, Tony formed and managed a successful telecoms design consultancy, TGS Ltd alongside several other companies Tactus Ltd, Tactus Telemetry Solutions Ltd and Sensustech Ltd. This group of compnies were later acquired by AlanDick Group in 2005. In 2008 Tony was part of the management team that undertook the buyout of the Telemetry Division from AlanDick, established Telemisis Ltd and subsequently was part of the team that undertook the formation of Simpatica Group which includes Telemisis.