Executive Bios

John Hawley

Major General (ret.) John W. Hawley, founder, president and CEO of CollaborX, Inc., Enfusion Technologies, Inc. and CX Enterprises, is a senior leader and military force modernization expert with 30 years of hands-on experience in fighter operations, government acquisition and operational requirements management. An expert in organizational leadership, development and change management, Maj. Gen. Hawley won the Eugene M. Zuckert Award for outstanding executive management—the highest award presented by the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Hawley has served on Senior Review Boards for NASA, DoD, the Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Air Force, the Office of Naval Research and several major defense contractors. He is deeply involved in USAF and Joint transformation efforts. Mr. Hawley was the founder and first commander of the Air Force's Command, Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center. He is a member of DoD's Blue Ribbon Panel for Interoperability and is an active consultant to the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

In addition, Mr. Hawley is experienced as a Combat Wing Commander and a Joint Coalition Task Force Commander. He has more than six years of experience in operational requirements development and major systems acquisition. He was directly involved in the development of most current and projected weapon systems, C2 & ISR platforms and Joint Command and Control systems. He was the principal concept designer and a contributing author for the ground-breaking Capabilities-Based Acquisition Report to the Under Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition.

Mr. Hawley was directly involved in drafting the first Concept of Operations for Northern Command at Peterson AFB, CO, and participated as a senior member of the exercise assessment team for Northern Command's Initial Operational Capability Exercise.

Robert Pinizzotto

Mr. Bob Pinizzotto brings more than 40 years of management and leadership experience in defense and industry. As the senior vice president for Multimax, Inc., he established and currently leads the Multimax operations in Dayton, Ohio, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, providing information technology services to the government and commercial communities with more than 200 technical personnel. Multimax has been listed as an INC 500 company and recognized among the top 50 fastest-growing companies by Washington Technology. The company was nationally ranked in the top 30 among the 500 fastest growing technology firms.

Mr. Pinizzotto was formerly president and CEO of a $45M manufacturing company and co-owner of ARKH Network Solutions. He retired from active duty as an Air Force Colonel in 1990, where he was serving the Air Force Logistic Command, as vice commander of the Logistics Operations Center. He previously served the Air Force more than 26 years in the Aircraft Maintenance, Propulsion, Acquisition Logistics and Systems Development disciplines and as the deputy commander for Maintenance at the 388th TFW from 1983 to 1985. Mr. Pinizzotto currently serves on the Wright State University Information Systems and Operations Management Corporate Advisory Board. He previously served as chairman of the Society of Logistics Engineers Dayton chapter and was on the SOLE International Board of Directors. He was selected as the USAF senior aircraft maintenance Manager of the Year for 1980 and received the Society of Logistics Engineers President's National Award of Merit for 1988.

Ron "Oly" Oholendt

Mr. Oholendt spent three years as director of Colorado Operations for Multimax, Inc., leading the research and development of new, innovative technologies for space, Near Space, and security applications before taking the reigns of GNSS. He directed all business activities for Multimax in Colorado. He provided program management for several SETA and consulting contracts supporting the Air Force Space Battlelab, Missile Defense Agency, and Northrop Grumman Space Technology. Mr. Oholendt had 29 years experience in the USAF in numerous operational and command positions with 26 years in fighter operations and staff positions, and his last three years developing new space capabilities for Air Force Space Command. Mr. Oholendt was the Air Force's first advocate for Near Space operations. For the last six years, he has worked extensively with DoD, industry, civil, and national space agencies to find, evaluate and field new space and missile defense technologies.

Mo Blackmore

Mr. Blackmore is a senior executive with 35-plus years in leadership, operations and management positions within the Department of Defense and in industry supporting U.S. national interests. Experience in command/leadership; program management; research, development and acquisition; strategic nuclear planning, operations, maintenance and security; sensitive compartmented operations planning and execution; joint operations; test range operations; space and missile operations; command and control systems development and acquisition; offense/defense integration; time-critical targeting; theater and national missile defense; and command and control for Homeland Defense/Homeland Security. Mr. Blackmore has held key leadership positions such as vice president, Technical Solutions, Teledyne Brown CollaborX, Inc.; Board of Directors, CollaborX, Inc.; Commander, 351st Missile Wing, Whiteman AFB, MO; Senior Research Fellow, Industrial College of the Armed Forces; Small ICBM, and Common Airborne Launch Control System Program Element Monitor, DCS RD&A, HQ U.S. Air Force, Pentagon, Washington, DC; and Minuteman III Flight Test Program Manager, HQ Strategic Air Command, Offutt AFB, NE.

Dr. Adam Chu

Dr. Chu worked on concepts for powered blimp applications in the late 1980s, primarily in the systems analysis role. He helped design a phased array radar integrated into a powered, station-keeping stratospheric blimp, using modeling and simulation to detail the structural, mechanical, electrical and propulsion subsystems. During the late 1990s, as a scientist supporting the Air Force Space Battlelab, Dr. Chu investigated state-of-the-art LTA design concepts emerging in academia and the commercial world to the support communications and intelligence requirements of the U.S. Government. His research resulted in briefings to the Pentagon in the 2002 to 2003 timeframe, becoming the basis for the tri-service's interest in what was termed "Near Space" in 2005.

Dr. Chu became the chief scientist in the Multimax Colorado Springs office in late 2004. Having studied persistent communications and surveillance capability shortfalls, as well as reviewed numerous research and development efforts to fulfill those operational needs, Dr. Chu designed the Star♦Light. Under Dr. Chu's leadership, the GNSS engineering team has advanced the initial design concept, completed CFD testing at the MSRC and completed preliminary designs of all vehicle subsystems.

Dr. Chu has more than 30 years of experience in an array of scientific study and engineering for DoD and the defense industry. Areas of expertise include: modeling and simulation, spacecraft/satellite design, orbital mechanics, RF signal analysis, systems engineering, multispectral imaging, radar, infrared and fusion. Dr. Chu is an expert in penetration RF technologies for imaging and analyzing objects behind barriers. He has provided applied scientific analysis in military mission areas to include: missile defense, nuclear environments and survivability, space communications, surveillance, and all areas of space operations to include space control, space support, force enhancement and force applications.

Callum Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan is a distinguished aviation engineer and designer of lighter-than-air and fixed wing aircraft with experience spanning three decades. He carries a distinguished record of success initiating, managing, and planning product development projects from conceptual development and detailed design through prototype testing and evaluation. Callum is fully knowledgeable of all aspects of Technology Product Development with practical experience as a Design Engineer, Designer, Principal Design Engineer, Principal Investigator, and Program Manager guiding the efforts of as many as 100 professionals from a wide variety of disciplines. He has personally led the design of three major airship programs as principal design engineer and program manager. He was recognized and promoted for proven abilities in consensus building that drive the execution of high value, product development projects on time and on budget, in environments challenged by tight deadlines and limited budgets.

While with Bosch Aerospace, Callum developed a Cycloidal-Propelled Underwater Unmanned Vehicle, Long Endurance persistent surveillance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (LEARS UAV), Rapidly Elevated Aerostat Platforms (REAP), and the Bosch Aerospace Subsonic Wind Tunnel. These Bosch programs were all successful and document Callum’s expertise in fielding new and innovative systems. Callum is a respected aviation industry presenter, patent holder, and published author with a passion for the potentialities of both manned and unmanned aircraft. He is a UAV and unmanned drone pilot with more than 1200 hours in fixed wing, rotary wing, glider, multiple LTA vehicles.

Larry Wheeler

Larry Wheeler assumed the Chief Financial Officer position for GNSS in June, 2010. Prior to this position, Larry was a practicing CPA, licensed in both California and Colorado. Larry draws on 46 years of knowledge gained as a principal and founder of several CPA firms, General Manager for a prime contractor to the government, Chief Financial Officer of a national manufacturer, member and/or advisor of the Board of Directors to numerous businesses and, hundreds of consultations with business owners through his CPA practices to convert theory into practical applications and solutions. In addition to his CPA experience, Larry served as a Certified Valuation Analyst and a Certified Forensic Financial Analyst. Larry is currently serving as an advisor to the Board of Directors, Bank of Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. Larry is a noted speaker on financial matters and has given numerous financial and tax seminars for small businesses, colleges and universities, and veterans.