Reginald Lionel Kermode AM MBE (24 September 1926 – 30 April 2014) was an Australian businessman and taxicab operator most well known for founding Cabcharge in 1976.
[1] He grew up in Smithtown, New South Wales, and left school at the age of 15 to join the Postmaster-General Office.
[4] Kermode founded Cabcharge Australia in 1976 and served on the company's board of directors for 39 years.
[5] Kermode was the subject of sustained criticism by Linton Besser, a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Besser, who referred to Kermode as the "Taxi tsar of Sydney", accused him of taking advantage of industry and political connections.