 The following list of editorial advisors includes accomplished professionals who provide editorial feedback and direction for MissionCritical Communications, Public Safety Report and RadioResource International. Their insight helps us keep a finger on the pulse of the markets that benefit from wireless voice and data, stay on top of technical trends and guide the magazines' mission. We are grateful for their contribution.
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Kerry Adams is president of Mobile Business Communications, a company that began radio operations in Toronto, Canada in 1976. Mobile is an SMR operator with more than 100 channels in the Southern Ontario and Golden Horseshoe regions. In recent years, Mobile has implemented large-scale special-event and on-site-engineered radio systems. Adams has an MBA from the Ivey Business School.
Mark E. Crosby is president and CEO of the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA), which provides advocacy, frequency coordination, and spectrum consulting services to enterprises, technology vendors, and communications service providers in the wireless marketplace. Previously, he served as president of Access Spectrum, a 700 MHz band manager licensee, where he continues to serve on the board of directors.
Steve Crout is president of Triple C Communications, Inc., a Denver-area two-way radio dealer. Building on Triple C’s sales and service legacy that began with Steve’s father Lee in 1965, the company provides mobile radio communications, wireless point-to-point microwave, and in-building amplifiers for public safety.
Bill Dean is currently a senior consultant for Communications Planning Consultants, a Minneapolis-based public safety radio consulting group. He is the former executive director of the Metropolitan Radio Board of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Prior to accepting the position as staff head of the Metropolitan Radio Board in 1999, Dean was a marketing communications business owner and a state legislator, who served four terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Brent Finster is communications chief of the Contra Costa County Fire District in the San Francisco Bay area. He is a two-term past president of the Colorado Chapter of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and currently the executive council representative for Northern California. He is a member of the California Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (CALSIEC) and the Department of Homeland Security’s SAFECOM Emergency Response Council.
Ralph Haller is president of Fox Ridge Communications, a telecommunications consulting company in Gettysburg, Pa. He is a 25-year veteran of the FCC.
Joe Hanna is president of Directions and a private consultant in the public safety wireless arena. He is a retired captain of the Richardson (Texas) Police Department and a past president and life member of Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO), a member of the APCO Executive Council, a member of National Emergency Numbers Association (NENA), and a fellow in the Radio Club of America.
Ron Haraseth has a 35-year background in public-safety communications. He currently works as a consultant for BearingPoint, an international management and technology consulting company. Previously, Haraseth worked nine years as the director of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International – Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC), a public-safety frequency coordinator. Prior to working for APCO, Haraseth retired from the state of Montana after 27 years.
Dale N. Hatfield is currently an independent consultant and adjunct professor in the department of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Hatfield was chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the FCC, and immediately prior to that he was chief technologist at the agency.
Carroll Hollingsworth is chief executive officer (CEO) of DH Marketing, an independent manufacturers’ representative company representing product suppliers for the wireless, land mobile, public-safety communication, OEM and utility industries. Hollingsworth has more than 35 years of experience in the wireless communications industry and is a past president and current officer of the Communications Marketing Association (CMA) board of directors and a director of the Radio Club of America (RCA) board of directors.
John Johnson is a radio system analyst for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA), one of the three major divisions of the military department. Johnson has been with TEMA since 1984 and serves as the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International local frequency advisor for the state of Tennessee, chairman of the 800 MHz National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (NPSPAC) committee, the 700 MHz regional planning committee, and the statewide interoperability committee. He has worked for the state of Tennessee in public-safety communications for more than 25 years.
Craig Jorgensen is project director and co-chair of Project 25/34 and serves
as chairman of the Service Specifications Group (SSG) of the Public Safety
Partnership Programs, Project MESA. Having worked in state government for 30
years, he is a past president and served on the board of officers of both
Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO), and the
National Association of State Telecommunications Directors (NASTD), and is a
Fellow in the Radio Club of America. He is also president of Quantum
Telecommunications, a consulting firm.
Leonard Koehnen PE, is a consulting engineer in electronic communications systems and facilities with Leonard J. Koehnen & Associates in St. Paul, Minn. He has more than 45 years of experience in the mobile communications industry.
Bill Moroney is president, CEO, and member of the board of directors of the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC), an international trade association representing electric, gas, and water utilities. Moroney also serves on the boards of UTC Canada, the European UTC, the UtiliSite Council, and the United Power Line Council.
Joe Ross is a partner in Televate, a technology consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. Ross has more than 18 years of experience in wireless technology. He is the co-chair for the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) broadband working group.
Robert Schlieman is currently assigned to the New York State Office for Technology as project manager of engineering on the statewide wireless network. Prior to this he spent 20 years as a New York State Police radio engineer. He serves as technical advisor to the New York Statewide Law Enforcement Telecommunications Committee and is an active member of Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO).
Tom Tolman is a director at RCC Consultants. He has more than 30 years of background in federal, state, and local public-safety communications. He serves as advisor to the First Response Coalition (FRC), IWCE and Madesco Technologies. He was involved in interoperability research, APCO Project RETAINS, and Project 25 during his tenure as former public-safety communications principle investigator with the University of Denver.
Ole Arrhenius is senior system marketing manager for EADS Secure Networks. He is an electronics engineer and has worked previously in the importing, sales, and marketing of various communications systems. He has seven years of experience with PMR and TETRA networks.
Carlos Chajin is business development manager for Latin America with U.K.-based Team Simoco. He has more than 20 years of experience in the mobile communications industry. Chajin is based in the Miami area.
Peter Clemons is manager of his own independent consultancy firm, Clemons Consulting, focusing on digital mobile radio and 2.5G/3G. He has worked on a number of development and privatization projects in Latin America and recently started a Digital Mobile Radio Initiative (DMRI) to offer smaller LMR suppliers the opportunity to participate more actively in digital LMR standardization processes.
David Lum is director of Asia/Pacific product and support operations for Motorola's government and public-safety business. He has more than 24 years’ experience in the two-way radio business and extensive knowledge of a wide variety of markets and applications that use two-way voice and wireless data radio systems. Lum’s work experience includes product development and marketing, systems marketing, manufacturing, systems engineering, field engineering, project and program management, sales and engineering training, and business development.
Duncan Swan is a director with Mason Communications, part of the Analysys Mason Group, where he is Head of the Mason London office. He has worked primarily with radio communications, for both mobile and fixed applications, and associated technologies. Duncan has more than 20 years of experience in radio systems engineering gained through working for Philips Communication Systems and, since 1995, for Mason Communications.
John Wilkinson is the managing director for Aspiring International, an independent consultancy in Singapore. He has more than 20 years of experience in the mobile communications industry, including numerous positions with Tait Electronics and most recently serving as a country manager and director for Tait in Singapore. He has also worked for a utility in the United Kingdom and as a consultant in the Australian rail industry. He has worked on projects throughout Southeast Asia, along with consulting on mobile communications for the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Max Zerbst is the principal consultant with Datasel Consulting in Springe, Germany. He formerly was vice president, marketing and sales, for Rohde & Schwarz BICK Mobilfunk. Zerbst has 25 years of experience in the field of mobile radio, spanning systems development, product management, business development, and marketing and sales. He is a member of the IEEE Communications and Computer Society.