George Stroemple is the Chairman of the Board and the Founder of PacStar. Mr. Stroemple has also been involved in numerous Oregon-based companies that specialize in the export of and sale of construction materials to government agencies and contractors throughout the Pacific Rim. Out of this experience, Mr. Stroemple has led overseas business development for PacStar as well as other spin-off companies. In addition to Mr. Stroemple's business interests, he is recognized in Oregon for his philanthropy and serves on numerous boards and foundations. Mr. Stroemple attended Oregon State University where he majored in International Business and served in Vietnam as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Peggy Miller joined PacStar in 2007. She 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 joins PacStar from her most recent position as a partner with Tatum, LLC, where she provided strategic financial consulting services to a variety of 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 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.