Company Profile

Rich Tarpley, President & CEO, and co-founder of PathFinder Digital is a 30-year veteran of the satellite communication industry.

He has been employed in senior-level positions with industry leaders such as Scientific Atlanta, Radiation Sytems/ComsatRSI, General Instrument/Motorola, BitCentral, and Wegener Communications.

Prior to founding PathFinder Digital, during his most recent corporate position at Wegener, Rich was the Vice President of the company's IPTV business.

For the last 15+ years of his career, Rich has been in direct involvement with all aspects of IP / IPTV / video over broadband industry.

Roger McGarrahan, COO and co-founder of PathFinder Digital is a 25 year veteran of the satellite communications and broadcast industries.

Prior to starting PathFinder, Roger was CEO of a $60M division of an $8B parent (Thomson Broadcast & Multimedia - a Grass Valley company) that designs, manufactures, sells and supports terrestrial transmitters and digital video streaming products for the professional broadcast industry (terrestrial, satellite, cable and wireless) and telecommunications industry.

Previously, Roger was V.P. of Operations managing Field Operations, Program Management and Customer Service.

Prior to that, Roger has fifteen years of experience as division General Counsel to high-tech companies that design, produce and install systems to the communications, aviation and defense industries. International and government contracting experience.

Austin Snow, Vice President of Engineering brings 20 years of overall experience in analysis, design, and implementation of large-scale network applications that includes 10 + years of experience in the R&D of embedded software products.

Austin comes to us from Thomson Broadcast & Multimedia, a Grass Valley company (previously Thales) a leader in digital television streaming and broadcast solutions for professional broadcast, IPTV, Cable and Mobile TV markets.

He has extensive experience in design, development & integration of middleware solutions for embedded IPTV and Mobility platforms, real time firmware development, digital signal processing, integration of conditional access systems, and extensive work with DVB, SCTE, MPEG, and OpenCable standards.

Justin Bertelsen, Principle Engineer Satellite Communications and Networking brings over 8 years of experience in the development, test, and integration, and maintenance of SATCOM, networking, and hardware systems for Government satellite based networks.

Prior to PathFinder, Justin was the Communication and Networking Manager for the Army Product Manager (PM) Prophet office. He provided high level support, evaluation, and technical oversight for the worldwide Prophet architecture.

Prior to that, Justin has 5 years of active duty military experience with the implementation, maintenance, and testing of Military Intelligence (MI) Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) systems.