Management Team

Bob Dunn, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member

Bob Dunn was appointed PacStar’s Chief Executive Officer in June 2010 after rejoining the company in early 2010 with the main goal being 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 of Sales and Marketing for Ericsson Federal Inc. (EFI). Bob joined EFI in October of 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 working wtih Ericsson, Bob served as the Senior Vice President Sales and 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, the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence.

Previous to his work with PacStar, Bob served as President of the Product Solutions Sector for Nortel Government Solutions (NGS). There he played an active role in the merger between Nortel and PEC Solutions as well as the consolidation of the business units.

Aside from these executive roles, Bob held numerous business development and management positions 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’s School of Management and has a BS in Marketing.

Peggy Miller, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

Peggy Miller joined PacStar in 2007.  Initially responsible for overseeing the company’s finances, in June of 2009, she was also asked to assume the position of Chief Operating Officer, overseeing the company’s day to day operations.  She also serves as the corporate secretary and 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 position as a partner with Tatum, LLC, where she provided strategic financial consulting services to various companies.  Peggy has served in an executive capacity for 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. It was there, at Monstermoving.com, where in addition to her former company, Virtual Relocation.com, that 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. From 1993 until 1998 she was CFO of Bioject Medical Technologies (NASDAQ: BJCT) and prior to that she acted as Vice President of Finance for Oregon Health and Science University.

Ms. Miller holds a BS in Business Administration with honors from Portland State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Charlie Kawasaki, Chief Technical Officer

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 seven fundraisings, completed three 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.

Ed Rissberger, Vice President of Product Development

Ed joined Pacstar in 2010 to lead the company’s product development and production activities. He is a seasoned product development leader with more than 10 years experience as an engineering executive developing high technology products in both large and small organizations. His teams have delivered software and hardware products to both the government and commercial marketplaces.

As Vice President of Engineering at FLIR, Ed led a 100-person technical staff that generated over $75M revenue per year. As Vice President of Engineering at Corvis, Ed led a large (250) International Development department that delivered optical networking equipment to an international Tier-1 carrier customer base which including companies like Sprint, France Telecom, Qwest and Telefonica. For the past six years, Ed was Vice President of Engineering for iMove, a venture funded startup, developing innovative video software for the intelligence and defense markets.

Mr Rissberger holds an MSE from Stanford University, a MSEE from the University of Washington, a BSME from Columbia University in New York and a BS in Physics from Lewis and Clark College.

Jeff Sinclair, Vice President of Sales

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.