About Us

Katherine Waldron

Katherine Waldron, has been in the telecommunications and technology industry for more than 25 years. She has been working with businesses and governments on proposal development, program management, and business development since 2002.

Ms. Waldron and the team participated in the first round of BTOP applications spearheading the Florida Public Broadcasting Services group’s $32M statewide infrastructure application which was short-listed by the Governor’s office for funding. She is also working on the Next Generation Emergency Network initiative including participating in the state of Alabama's first round adoption application, which requested more than $20M in funding for a broadband adoption grant. This application received the highest priority from the Alabama Governor.

During her tenure at Sprint, she worked with state and local governments on their telecommunications needs and was involved in several major federal government proposals and awards, including FTS2000 and FTS2001.

She became vice president within the Sprint Wholesale Services Group in 2000, where she built her organization into a $500 million a year international sales group managing Sprint’s largest customers and working with them on their needs assessment, proposal development, implementation and customer care requirements.

Earlier, Ms. Waldron worked on the original, and ultimately successful, cellular application proposals for some of the top 90 domestic market areas. She then became an editor for several communications' publications where she won numerous reporting awards.

Ms. Waldron received her BA from the University of Virginia in Economics and is pursuing her MBA at the Palm Beach Atlantic University. She is involved in her local community and is currently in her third term as president of a 350 unit condominium association and has been appointed by the Mayor of West Palm Beach to spearhead a neighborhood revitalization project. She founded the downtown West Palm Beach’s first Political Action Committee in October 2009 and was recently reappointed to her second term on the Palm Beach County Commission for Airport Noise. She was vice chairman of the Palm Beach County Florence D’George Boys and Girls Club from 2006-2009 and has participated in many other community efforts.  

Strategic, Financial and Product Planning - Rich Dineley, III

Richard Dineley has almost 30 years of executive level finance and marketing experience in virtually all facets of the telecommunications and IT industries. Mr. Dineley’s consultative services concentrate on identifying, positioning, and delivering developing technologies and telecommunications services, assisting emerging technology companies by opening strategic partnerships, providing econometric analysis and review of major M&A activities within the industry, and securing incremental capital from strategically aligned sources.

Some of the major clients with whom Mr. Dineley has led the engagement of include AT&T, Astrolink, BellSouth, Bermuda Telecom, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, GTE, Iridium, ITC^DeltaCom, Lockheed Martin Global Telecom, Miraxis, National Emergency Number Association, Florida Public Broadcasting Services group, SNET, and SwissFone.

Earlier, Dineley led the Strategic Marketing efforts of Syncordia, the British Telecom global data network outsourcing subsidiary that evolved into the BT/AT&T joint venture, Concert. In this role, he created the world’s first global Managed Private Network and Managed Line Services' capability and managed strategic partnerships with other global players such as IBM Europe and EDS. He also led the product development team that created BT’s first global virtual private network service (IVN).

Rich served as Vice President, Business Product Marketing, for Sprint Corporation before joining BT. As an Executive Officer at Sprint, Rich directed the realignment of the Business Products portfolio, created multi-tiered and integrated product offerings, and introduced new services that changed the competitive landscape of the business market sector.

Prior to his term at Sprint Corporation, Rich served in a variety of Executive Officer-level Finance and Administration positions for COMSAT Corporation, including Corporate Controller and Vice President, Finance and Administration. Rich began his telecom career with Rockwell Collins, leading the business support team on a project to build the national telecommunications infrastructure for Saudi Arabia.

Dineley received both his Bachelor of Science degree with High Honors and his M.B.A. degree, with concentrations in Finance and International Business from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland.

Dineley was awarded his C.P.A. by the State of Virginia in 1987 and completed a course of study in Modern Standard and Egyptian Dialect Arabic through the Defense Language Institute in 1971.

Rich serves as a member of the Board of Directors and as Treasurer for the Society of Satellite Professionals International – Southeast (SSPI) and is an Adjunct Instructor for Georgia Military College. Rich is active in his church and community and resides in suburban Atlanta with his wife.

Engineering Design and Implementation - Philip Shoemaker

Philip Shoemaker is the founder and CEO of Inspired Technologies, a Tallahassee based network design and engineering firm. He has over 20 years of experience related to Enterprise Technology Planning, Enterprise Architecture Services, and Enterprise Application Integration. Philip has extensive experience integrating broadband networking technologies with application layers spanning data, voice, and video services at government and private sector levels.

His specialty is providing strategic direction based on the information asset base, which defines the business mission, the information necessary to perform the mission, the technologies necessary to perform the mission, and the transitional processes for implementation of new technologies.

Projects under his direction encompass all aspects of technology both past and emerging. Utilization of innovative data processing and network techniques beyond the traditional mainstream are the norm for these projects. In many cases, these innovative techniques served to set the standard in on-going software development and telecommunications processes within the organizations where they were applied.

Philip holds a Bachelors in Management Information Systems degree with a Minor in Computer Science from Florida State University.

Legal, Regulatory and Public Policy - Alan Pearce, Ph.D.

Dr. Alan Pearce was one of the prime architects of pro-competitive public policies at the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped lay the foundation of a new information era, serving first as Chief Economist for Chairman Dean Burch and then in the same capacity for Chairman Richard Wiley. Dr. Pearce next became Chief Economist of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications in the US House of Representatives, and then joined the US Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP) in the Executive Office of the President.

Since leaving the government, Dr. Pearce has provided professional services to telecommunications, wireless, satellite, cable TV, radio and TV broadcasting, movie and program production companies, along with software and equipment manufacturers. He has also consulted with a wide variety of government organizations at the international level, and has assisted clients in the US and overseas with negotiations on privatization’s and appropriate regulatory structures (e.g., the European Union, Britain, France, Germany, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, etc.). Dr. Pearce has also researched and consulted for federal departments and agencies, e.g., the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, states, cities, and local governments, along with major companies in the telecommunications-information-entertainment industry on public policy and regulatory structures, antitrust issues, spectrum auctions, mergers and acquisitions, appraisals and valuations, franchises, and service rates. In April, 2006, he completed a study entitled “The 700 MHz Auction: Economic Analysis of the Public Safety & Homeland Security Benefits of a Public-Private Partnership.” Late last year he researched an economic stimulus paper for President-elect Obama’s Transition Team, “Accelerated Wireless Broadband Infrastructure: Impact on GDP & Employment 2009-2010.”

He was educated at The London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, and Indiana University, where he worked part-time for the University’s public radio and TV stations, WFIU-FM & WTIU. He is widely published and has been a part-time professor at several major universities, e.g., University of Southern California, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, New York Law School, and Indiana University. Dr. Pearce is currently on the part-time faculty at The McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Legal, Regulatory and Public Policy - Tracy Rickett

Tracy Rickett is located in Washington D.C. area and is an attorney who has worked within the federal government as well as within the communications industry on contract negotiations and contract management. He has in-depth knowledge of bankruptcy law, telecommunications and IT contracts, as well as extensive contacts within the political and regulatory sectors of the industry.

Prior to joining Waldron and Associates, Tracy led Sprint's contract negotiations for its largest customers, including BellSouth, Verizon, Southwestern Bell, Qwest and several international telco providers.

The father of three grown children, he lives in Alexandria, VA with his wife Wendy Wysong. He is currently the chair of the Budget and Fiscal Affairs Advisory Committee for the City of Alexandria, and past chair of the Alexandria School Board's Budget Advisory Committee. He is on numerous boards, including the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria and the T.C. Williams' High School Unified Booster Club. He has worked on and/or managed a number of local elections. He is the Chair of the Administrative Commission at his church.