Bob Dunn was appointed PacStar’s Chief Executive Officer in June 2010 after rejoining the company in early 2010 to expand and develop the company’s technology penetration in Department of Defense programs and with large system integrators. In addition to his responsibilities as CEO, Bob continues to spearhead these business development efforts.
Prior to rejoining PacStar, Bob served as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Ericsson Federal Inc. (EFI). Bob joined EFI in October 2008 and directed all Business Development efforts across U.S. federal, state and local government agencies that demand the same broadband applications and communications capabilities as commercial markets. His team helped customers leverage Ericsson’s worldwide commercial leadership and massive research and development investment to achieve mission success.
Before Ericsson, Bob served as the Senior Vice President Sales / Marketing at PacStar, where he maintained a client roster that included numerous influential U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency, Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence.
Before that, Bob served as President, Product Solutions Sector, Nortel Government Solutions (NGS) and played an active role in the merger between Nortel and PEC Solutions as well as the consolidation of the business units.
Bob held numerous business development and management roles for NYNEX, Northern Telecom and Bell Atlantic. He is a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), where he serves on its international board.
Bob is a graduate of Boston College School of Management, and has a BS in Marketing.
Peggy MillerPeggy Miller joined PacStar in 2007. Initially responsible for overseeing the company’s finances, in June 2009, she was also asked to assume the position of Chief Operating Officer where she oversees the day to day operations. She also serves as the company’s corporate secretary and its treasurer.
Peggy has an established record of building businesses and strengthening finances through a series of executive-level management positions and is a highly experienced financial professional.
She joined PacStar from her most recent position as a partner with Tatum, LLC, where she provided strategic financial consulting services to various companies. Peggy has served in a variety of companies including as CEO of privately held Astoria-Pacific International, President of Concero, and as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Monstermoving.com, Inc., where in addition to her former company, Virtual Relocation.com, she acquired five companies to form the Monstermoving group. She helped co-found Virtual Relocation in 1998 which was sold to Monster, Inc. (NASDAQ:MNST) in May 2000 for $80 million.
Ms. Miller holds a BS in Business Administration with honors from Portland State University and is a Certified Public Accountant..
Charlie Kawasaki joined PacStar in early 2005 to lead the development of the company’s proprietary product line. Mr. Kawasaki has extensive experience in product development, software engineering, technology licensing, patent development, business development, product marketing, general management and M&A.
Previously, through Software Diligence Services, LLC, Mr. Kawasaki provided product development and general management consulting primarily to early stage companies. As founder and past executive director of the Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security (RAINS), he gained extensive exposure to the homeland security technology video surveillance and internet infrastructure industry. Mr. Kawasaki has created dozens of commercial software packages in such industries as Internet infrastructure, multimedia CD-ROM and multimedia authoring, software utilities and relational databases. He has founded companies, been involved in 7 fundraisings, completed 3 successful M&A transactions and been directly involved in more than 10 patent filings. Prior operating roles include as the CEO of RuleSpace, Inc., which created world-leading technology for Internet parental controls applications that are used by companies such as AOL, Yahoo, SBC, BellSouth, and Microsoft. Before RuleSpace, he held product development and engineering management roles at The Palace, Inc., Creative Multimedia Corp., Central Point Software, Inc., Asymetrix Corp. and Microrim, Inc.
Laura Kubisiak joined PacStar in 2005 to lead the marketing efforts and re-brand the company. She has extensive experience in marketing and general management at companies ranging from start-up to the Fortune 500. In domestic and international markets, she has led strategic and tactical marketing and sales efforts for technology-based products and services. Ms. Kubisiak has worked in a broad range of industries, including digital imaging, healthcare, photography, printing and petrochemicals.
Most recently, she was the director of corporate marketing and global sales operations at Planar Systems. At Planar, she re-branded the entire company, championed new business initiatives, and built a strong global marketing and sales operations team. Prior to coming to Portland, Ms. Kubisiak was general manager and vice president at Kodak with profit and loss responsibility for a $180 million regional market.
Ms. Kubisiak holds an MBA from Stanford University, and a BS in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.
Jeff Sinclair is a founding member of PacStar. It was through Mr. Sinclair’s pioneering sales work in Asia, developing relationships with key military commands for TransPacific’s distribution business, that the market opportunity for PacStar emerged. Mr. Sinclair worked at TransPacific from 1992 through 2000. He relocated to Asia in 1993 and served as an account executive with new business development responsibilities. During this assignment Mr. Sinclair developed valuable military relationships and knowledge of contracting requirements with primary contractors, the military and other government organizations.
With the spin-off of PacStar, Mr. Sinclair dramatically expanded the sales efforts, opening offices in Korea; California; Texas; Washington, DC; Germany and Dubai. He managed sales growth for PacStar from zero to almost $50 million dollars per year (2004). He is an expert in US government contract administration, military sales and sales management.
Mr. Sinclair holds a BS in biology from Pacific University.