Dave leads Spectrum for the Future’s policy and advocacy initiatives, ensuring that our members’ wireless technology and product innovations are enabled through access to sufficient radio frequency spectrum and supported by suitable regulatory structures and rules. Dave is a longtime spectrum champion, advocating for unlicensed, licensed, and dynamic sharing frameworks – recognizing the vital role that all spectrum management regimes play in our increasingly wireless world. Dave has been at the vanguard of both the development and implementation of dynamic spectrum access, such as CBRS and 6 GHz AFC.
Prior to his current role, Dave led the spectrum policy initiatives for a number of market leading companies in enterprise wireless, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Ruckus Wireless. Dave also has a long history of leadership in a variety of standards and trade organizations, including the OnGo Alliance (formerly CBRS Alliance), Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum), the Wi-Fi Alliance, the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance, and WiFiForward. Dave served as the President of the OnGo Alliance for 5 years and had the honor of presiding over the CBRS Commercial Services Launch Event in September 2019. Dave has testified before Congress on spectrum policy and also served on the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC) at the Department of Commerce.
Dave began his odyssey in networking/telecom/mobile/wireless in the early ‘90s while serving in the US Marine Corps. He then transitioned to the commercial sector as a systems engineer. In the intervening years he has spent much of his time in Technical Marketing, Standards Development, and Policy Advocacy. Dave is a Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) Emeritus (#2062), a Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA), and a CBRS Certified Professional Installer (CPI).
