Leadership

Jack Gruninger
President & CTO

MS, BS Systems Engineering - University of Virginia (Go Hoos)

30+ years' professional experience with Federal contracting

Recovering engineer, confirmed golf addict

Chris Todd
VP of Engineering, PM

BS Computer Science - Mary Washington College

Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

25+ years professional experience, licensed radio operator, (3) FCC licenses, Captain connoisseur

Dave Kalagher (aka Dr. K)
Corp Secretary, Assistant FSO, PM

MS Information Management - George Washington University

BS Computer Science - George Mason University

35+ years professional experience, Springsteen specialist

Keith Walters
Deputy Director, Engineering Services

BS Software Engineering, Penn State University

17+ years' professional experience

AWS, Chef certifications, Open Source advocate

Matthew Todd
Director, TapHere!® Radio

Bachelor's degree in Communications with Signal Processing focus, University of Colorado Denver

College Distinction, Golden Key Honor Society, Cum Laude

25+ years' experience in broadcast, digital signals, telecommunications and aviation

Commercial and Radar FCC licensee, vintage vacuum-tube audiophile

Bryan Hamilton
Director, Strategy/Growth & Mission Support

MA Political Science - University of South Florida

USA Ret (22 yrs) - ISR SME, Intel Analysis, SIGINT

26 years' IC experience, multiple operational deployments, contract management, avid CrossFitter and rabid FSU alum

George Grooms
Director, Engineering Services

BS Computer Management Information Science – University of Maryland

30+ years of professional experience in DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) programs

Golf aficionado

David Peterson
Director, Finance & Corporate Services

BS, Finance – Virginia Tech (Go Hokies)

40 years of professional experience

Community service advocate, enjoy history, big sports fan – especially college football and basketball

Stephanie Laingen
Director of Innovation

BS Computer Science & Spanish – Yale University

DevSecOps Specialist & Public Speaker

USAF Spouse

Advisory Board ("Gray Beard Supervision")

Rob Walker

Rob brings ten years of experience with the COTS vendor community (Oracle/BEA) and 25+ years with the government to TapHere. While at Oracle he was responsible for the National Security Groups Business Development team. He and his team served as customer advocates and worked with the government customers and partners to translate their requirements into potential solutions for their mission problems using Oracle technologies. Prior to Oracle/BEA, Rob was the DISA Program Manager responsible for early development of a Service Oriented Architecture strategy for DoD with the NCES program. Rob is a retired Naval Officer and spent most of his naval career in the acquisition workforce. He is an acquisition certified program manager and had tours of duty in each of the Navys material commands, NAVSEA, NAVAIR and SPAWAR.

Rob has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and Masters degree in Business Administration from Strayer University.

Doug Duenkel

A creative, driven and results-oriented entrepreneur, Doug has founded businesses that have grossed over $7.1 Billion in revenues since 2006. He is currently the CEO of both Kairos Data Communications and Innovations for Gospel Impact (IGI), a faith-based non-profit, as well an adjunct professor at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, teaching the Capstone course for the Entrepreneurship minor. Prior to his work at IGI, Doug was a founding member of Knight Point Systems, where he served as the President and Chief Operating Officer, managing the daily operations of the company, focusing on Business Development and the Service Delivery of over 400 Knight Point personnel.

Doug earned a Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications from the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia with dual concentrations in Marketing and Management from the McIntire School of Commerce.

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