Founder & Ceo
Red Hawk / Cdt
Milpitas, California
• Founded Award-Winning Fiber Optics Supply Company serving leading Networking, Broadcast Video and Telecommunications firms in North America, Europe and Australia which was sold to Belden Networking (formerly Cable Design Technologies) in 1997. • Developed Sales & Marketing and represented firm to notable clients including Apple, Silicon Graphics, Tandem Computers (HP), Raychem (Tyco Electronics), TRW, BT&D Technologies (Agilent/HP), Siemens, the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, IBM ASIA, Grass Valley Group, Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, SONY / Lude Broadcast Engineering, FOX Sports, Sony Jumbotron, Cisco Systems and Black Box Corporation.• Participated in several trade missions with the U.S. Department of Commerce as a Silicon Valley Small Business to Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, India and Germany as well as accompanying Mayor Tom McEnery of Silicon Valley / San Jose on Dublin, Ireland Trade Summit in 1993, leading to consulting agreement with Liberty Global.• Invested capital and resources in the creation of ShenZhen Red Hawk Fiber Optics Company, a joint venture between Red Hawk Fiber Optics and the No. 1. Designing Institute of the Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, Zhenzhou, Henan, PRC. (Sold interest to Chinese partners as condition of sale of company to Belden Networking.)• Qualified products to MIL-Q standards for sales to the US Air Force, NASA, US Army, and the Australian Department of Defense new Headquarters Building, Canberra, Australia.