Education
McMaster University.
McMaster University.
Both companies are headquartered in Foxcroft"s hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. Foxcroft bought the Fluke Transportation Group and built it from 3 trucks to 176 trucks, 475 trailers and 1.3 million square feet of warehousing. Fluke has the well-known slogan “IF Information Technology’South Ontario TIME… Information Technology’South A FLUKE.” While working at Fluke, Foxcroft also worked as a National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball referee.
Foxcroft is Canada’s only National Collegiate Athletic Association referee.
He has also officiated over 1600 international games in 30 countries. Foxcroft often became frustrated with the traditional design of referees" whistles, which features a "pea" (cork ball) inside that is prone to jamming, thereby preventing the whistle from producing sound.
He was inspired to create a "pealess" whistle following incidents in international games including the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1984 pre-Olympics game in São Paulo Paulo, in which Foxcroft witnessed an obvious foul but he could not stop play as his whistle was rendered useless by a jammed pea. Play continued and the referees were booed by spectators.
Foxcroft collaborated with an Ontario design consultant, Chuck Shepherd, to design a pealess whistle.
They established Fox 40 International in 1987, and the company"s whistles were first used at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis. Throughout the 1990s, Fox 40 whistles became the standard whistle for referees and officials in numerous major professional sports leagues including the NFL, Canadian Football League, National Hockey League, National Collegiate Athletic Association and National Basketball Association. lieutenant has also been adopted as a standard by numerous public safety agencies around the world.
Today, Fox 40 International dominates the whistle industry with thousands of whistles produced each day in Canada. He was named by Profit Magazine as one of the 10 top Canadian entrepreneurs of the decade and inducted into the Burlington Entrepreneur Hall of Fame, the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame, and the Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame.
Foxcroft is also the Honorary Colonel of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise"s).
Today, Foxcroft remains Chief Executive Officer of both Fluke Transportation and Fox 40 International Incorporated. He is also employed by the National Basketball Association to evaluate the performance of their referees. Foxcroft also works as a motivational speaker and supports charitable causes.