EYECRAFT360 - Key Persons


Ben Gillam - Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Company Secretary
  • Group Financial Controller
  • Group Head Office

Dr Herbert Loebl

Dr Herbert Loebl establishes Joyce-Loebl along with fellow engineering graduate Robert Joyce.

Gary Austin - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Grant Harley

Job Titles:
  • General Manager

Helen Morris


James Bradshaw

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager

James Bristow

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager

John Wakefield

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investors Board of Directors
  • Non Executive Director
John Wakefield was appointed in February 2023. He is an experienced quoted company director and corporate adviser. He qualified as a solicitor with McKenna & Co (now CMS) before moving into corporate finance, first with Williams de Broe Limited and then at Rowan Dartington & Co. Limited, where he was a founder director and shareholder and head of corporate finance. He was a corporate finance director of WH Ireland Limited from 2009 until 2016. He has been a member of the AIM Advisory Group, chairman of the London Stock Exchange Regional Advisory Group for the South West and chairman of South West Angel and Investor Network Limited (SWAIN) from 2008 until 2016. He is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Baron Oil plc and a non-executive director of Drumz plc. John is Chairman of the Nominations Committee and a member of both the Audit and Remuneration Committees.

Jon Cheek

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager

Joseph Carter

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager

Osman Abdullah - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Group Chief Executive
  • Member of the Investors Board of Directors
Osman Abdullah was appointed to the Board in September 2010 as a Non-Executive Director, becoming executive chairman of the Group's principal trading subsidiary in 2013 and was appointed as Group Chief Executive in January 2016. He was formerly Group Chief Executive of Evered Holdings plc, a fully listed public company specialising in industrial manufacturing, distribution and quarry mining related products from 1981 to 1989. He subsequently served as a Non-Executive Director of Umeco plc from 1993 to 2005 a fully listed company specialising in component distribution and the manufacture of composite material based products principally to the aerospace industry.

Paul Curtis

Job Titles:
  • Delivery Operations Manager

Paul Negus

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Investors Board of Directors
Paul Negus joined the Board in September 2014 responsible for business development for Petards rail products. He has considerable commercial experience having spent eight years as Managing Director of PIPS Technology Limited, a developer of automatic number plate recognition and CCTV systems first under private ownership and latterly under the ownership of Federal Signal Inc.

Raschid Abdullah

Job Titles:
  • Executive Chairman of the Investors Board of Directors
Raschid was appointed Executive Chairman in January 2013 and until its purchase by Petards was also Executive Chairman of Water Hall Group plc, which was listed on AIM. He was previously Executive Chairman of Evered Holding plc, a fully listed public company specialising in industrial and quarry related products, from 1982 to 1989. Raschid started his commercial life within the construction industry in the areas of building product supplies and the provision of specialist subcontracting services starting his first business in 1971 which he sold to a competitor in 1976. He then joined the family business providing a range of services to clients in the Middle East.

Terry Connolly

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investors Board of Directors
  • Non Executive Director
Terry Connolly was appointed in August 2007. He is a chartered accountant and had a career in advertising and the entertainment sector where as Group Managing Director of Chrysalis he was responsible for taking that company to a public listing. Since 1989 he has been a self-employed consultant specialising in strategic and corporate affairs. He is Chairman of the Audit and Remuneration Committees.

Victoria Hodge

Job Titles:
  • Commercial & Operations Manager