Martha Renshaw, CEO
Martha has been with TCI since 1988, where she quickly rose to the position of CFO. After serving in that capacity for several years and expanding her knowledge of Government acquisition programs and the especially intense environment of the DoD, Martha took over as CEO in 2004. Martha's strengths are in business acumen. This strength has been grown over a 25 year period and began fresh out of the gates of the University of Maryland in 1978.In 1978, Martha had the rare opportunity to serve on a small staff of professionals to Alinda C. Burke, America's first woman to serve as Deputy Federal Highway Administrator under the Carter Administration. In this capacity, Martha was given the responsibility of coordinating national meetings which brought together the public and private sectors relating to the joint development of mass transportation projects.
These consortiums included Governors of all 50 states; mayors of all U.S. metropolitan cities; highway, road and bridge developers; media; Carter's Press Secretary; U.S. Secretary of Transportation, as well as other DOT officials (both Federal and State). In 1980, Martha served as Secretary Treasurer and Operations Manager to Robert "Mickey" Channell [Georgia State Representative]. Mickey owned and operated a highly successful retail chain in Georgia. Martha served as a Corporate Officer and Operations Manager. In this capacity, Martha met regularly with field managers and the corporate CPA to review financials, to measure profitability and to assess and implement strategic merchandising techniques. Additionally, Martha was responsible for future site analyses, planning and development. This included socio-economic impact studies as well as financial analyses for Board and bank approval prior to new site development.
In 1982, Martha joined Telic Corporation as a Consultant. Telic, a telephone industry budgeting software firm, headquartered out of Rockville, Maryland, was later acquired by CSC. While at Telic, Martha served in the capacity of training budget managers at GTE of the South. This required a sound understanding of software, hardware and networking requirements, as well as understanding budgeting methodologies specific to the client. Additionally, Martha supported BellSouth and GTE of the South. Martha also assisted in marketing support efforts to GTE of the South and Dayton Power Light.
Curt Renshaw, President/COO
Curt holds a BSEE from Georgia Institute of Technology, 1982, with master's work at George Washington University in Electromagnetic Theory and Ga. Tech in Industrial Engineering. In 1982, Curt went to work at the Navy EHF Satcom Program Office of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (then NAVELEX) in Washington, D.C. The NESP program was the Navy side of the MILSTAR communications program, and placed the first operational EHF satellite in service. In 1985 he founded Tele-Consultants, Inc. (TCI) to provide engineering, logistics and program management support to the Department of the Navy and other Defense customers.Curt has devoted the past fifteen years to studies of alternatives to special and general relativity, with numerous published papers and speaking credits. He has had the pleasure of consulting with physicists and astronomers from around the globe.
Curt's work has been reviewed and discussed at length with Dr. Howard Hayden and Dr. Cynthia Whitney, editors of Galilean Electrodynamics, and Dr. Roy Keys, editor of Apieron. Mr. Renshaw developed a personal and professional relationship with Grote Reber, the father of radio astronomy, and wrote a portion of the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Mr. Reber. Curt's theories have been discussed with Dr. William Kalfelz, professor at University of Maryland, instrumental in much of the pioneering efforts of the theory's development, and Dr. David Finklestein, also of Georgia Tech, and author of Quantum Relativity. Curt has also been engaged in several lively debates with Mike Lemonick, science editor of Time Magazine and author of The Light at the Edge of the Universe.
In addition to a long list of published credits on the subject of Relativity Theory, including several in IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, Curt has presented papers at four independent sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and presented six papers at two independent sessions of the International Conference on Space, Time and Gravitation, in 1996 and 1998 hosted by the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia. Curt has also presented papers at Queen's College in London, at sessions in Cologne, Germany, and to JPL and NASA at the annual IEEE Aerospace Conference.
Mike Girard, VP, Corporate Operations
As Corporate Operations Director, Mike Girard brings almost 20 years of increasingly complex support to TCI. He began as a logistics analyst in Virginia, fresh out of Stonehill College, quickly moving into program management. Mike was responsible for TCI's first major prime contract with NUWC, and has demonstrated proficiency in all areas of DoD services contracting. He has served as Operations Director since 2005. Mike's technical knowledge, relationship with clients and leadership skills among employees greatly enhance TCI's ability to perform in the marketplace and to attract and retain high quality managers and staff.
Grant Cooley, VP
Grant has over 28 years of communications engineering experience as well as Navy and Joint Communication Systems development. He retired after 20 years of naval service in the submarine community serving in the enlisted and officer ranks. He serves on the Advisory Board of The Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance at James Madison University, the Board of Directors or ION aircraft and was selected by the NRCC for Virginia Business Man of the Year for 2005. He was previously the Executive Vice President and Vice President of Global Network and IT Services at Predicate Logic.