JRC Headquarters Staff

Management and Administration

Adrian Grilli
Managing Director

Adrian Grilli is a Chartered Engineer, being a member of both the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

He trained originally as an Automotive Engineer in the UK truck and bus industry. Subsequently, he joined the British Civil Service and spent 20 years in government in a variety of posts in the Department of Trade & Industry and Cabinet Office. During this time, he spent two spells in the Radiocommunications Agency managing Spectrum Reviews and as Director of Broadcasting, Fixed Telecommunications, Space and Satellite Services.

In 1996, he was appointed as the first Managing Director of the Joint Radio Company Ltd.
Adrian is Chairman of the Board of the Federation of Communications Services, of which JRC is an active member.

Anita Lad
Office Manager and Company Secretary

Anita has worked for the JRC since 2000. Prior to this she held various administration and finance positions in Civil Service, Local Government and a facilities management company.

Engineering and Consultancy

Mobile Radio

Simon Parsons
Spectrum Management Consultant
Mobile Radio & Information Systems

Simon is an IT Professional and Radio Spectrum Manager. He joined JRC in 1996, having previously worked for 13 years in various IT, Standardization and Operational Engineering roles at the former UK Spectrum Regulator, the Radiocommunications Agency.

Simon is a Chartered Member of the British Computer Society and Spectrum Management member of the Federation of Communication Services Business Radio Council.

David Priestley
Spectrum Management Consultant
Scanning Telemetry & Fixed Services

David served an apprenticeship in the electrical contracting industry prior to providing technical assistance to post graduate satellite communication studies at the University of Bradford. After gaining a B.Eng. at the University of Sheffield, he worked for several years in the Communications & Instrumentation Department of North Thames Gas. David was seconded to the JRC in 1988 and became a permanent staff member in 1996.

Peter Swan
Spectrum Management Consultant
Mobile Radio & Windfarms

Peter joined JRC in 2005 after a 30 year career in Airbourne Radar, Military Communications and British Gas ending as a Senior Telecommunications Engineer. Before joining JRC he'd worked with us on various committees and lead a Compatability Study between JRC Trunked PMR systems and the Orbcomm Low Earth Orbit communications system which proved conclusively that the two networks could not co-exist in the same frequency bands.

Mark Simpson
Principal Consultant

Mark has nearly 30 years experience in engineering design and project management working in both the electricity and telecommunications industries.
Prior to joining JRC, Mark was Standards Manager for Central Networks; responsible for the specification of their distribution assets and network design policy. Before that, Mark spent 9 years in the telecommunication industry. As a project director for Marconi, Mark was responsible for working with strategic customers on the development and delivery of IP switching solutions and mobile cashless payment. As a Programme Manager he worked with several telecommunications operators in both the UK and Europe including Vodafone, ntl and Airwave, delivering major microwave and optical core networks solutions.

Before moving into telecommunications, Mark started his career as a digital protection designer for GEC Measurements and was the System Design Manager for an Anglo-French Defence company.

Ted Aksamit
Principal Consultant

Chas Griffin
Licensing Manager

Chas has a broad experience of the electronic and radio sector derived from 30 years as a contractor. He has an extensive test and development background which has included electronics, radio and fixed telecommunications. He has worked for a number of large communications companies in the UK and undertaken design and development assignments in broadcasting, mobile radio communications, SCADA systems, instrumentation and calibration.

Keith Brogden
Engineer
Windfarms

Keith is an electrical and electronics engineer with a long career in satellite communications, radar, consumer electronics and telecommunications. For the last twelve years, he has been involved in spectrum management and licensing for the broadcast and programme-making sector, focusing on frequency co-ordination and interference resolution. He joined JRC in 2009 to manage our wind energy co-ordination process.

Alessandra Lees
Engineer
Windfarms Team

Richard Greenleaf

Broadcasting, Special Events and Spectrum Management Software

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Joseph Grilli
Associate Consultant
Economic Analysis

Joseph joined JRC to undertake a number of projects on the economic value of business radio and radio spectrum and is also part of the wind farm co-ordination team.
He has a background in Economics and ICT.

Trevor McKay
Associate Engineering Consultant
Telecommunications

Trevor is an experienced project manager with 40 years background in the gas industry. He is qualified in mechanical and electrical engineering, with a career focused on instrumentation and control, and latterly telecommunications. He has been responsible for project management of large national communications systems from concept through to decommissioning and has worked with JRC as an Associate since 2008.