Leadership Team
Dave brings 30 years of technology and leadership experience to Dascom with experience from small business to Fortune 100 enterprise and spanning the value chain…
Dave Hattey, Chief Executive Officer

Dave brings 30 years of technology and leadership experience to Dascom with a background ranging from small business to Fortune 100 enterprise and spanning the value chain including end user, reseller, operator and OEM. Dave has successfully built and grown businesses from the ground up for Fortune companies like GE, Ericsson and 3Com, as well as venture and private-funded startups. Dave earned his bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from the University of Michigan, and holds a master’s degree in business administration from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. He holds 11 patents in various communication protocols and technologies.
Scott is one of the founders of Dascom and has over 25 years experience in the broadcast, telecommunications and audiovisual industries during his career…
Scott Apfelbacher, Vice President IPTV

Scott is one of the founders of Dascom and has over 25 years experience in the broadcast, telecommunications and audio/video industries. He is nationally known for his knowledge and experience in IPTV and distance education. Scott has been lead design/project engineer on ATM/IPTV projects since 1998, working with all the major vendors and has worked on over 120 IPTV projects. He has held design/project engineer and distance learning sales management positions during his career, and specializes in all forms of video transmission related systems.
Dave has been involved in the audiovisual industry for over 20 years, and has extensive experience as both a manufacturer’s representative and systems design engineer …
Dave Ewing, Director of AV Sales

Dave has been involved in the audio/video industry for over 20 years, and has extensive experience as both a manufacturer’s representative and systems design engineer of commercial audio and video equipment. In his tenure at Dascom and in past roles as manufacturer’s representative, Dave has been involved in many large A/V projects and partnerships throughout the upper Midwest. Dave is responsible for directing Dascom systems sales in the commercial audio/video market.
Nathan brings over a decade of engineering expertise and leadership to support Dascom’s AV and IPTV system integration solutions, service offerings and partnerships…
Nathan Vineyard, Director of Engineering

Nathan brings over a decade of engineering expertise and leadership to support Dascom’s AV and IPTV system integration solutions, service offerings and partnerships. In previous positions with The Broadband Group and Charter Communications, Nathan directed engineering services, technical operations and service delivery. At Charter he handled many high-profile projects including being the engineer responsible for the creation of the first “all-fiber” based cellular backhaul network for Verizon Wireless. Nathan holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from St. Louis University and is responsible for directing the engineering staff of Dascom.
Muriah brings more than a decade of experience in marketing and public relations from corporate, non-profit and education organizations to direct Dascom marketing…
Muriah Keith, Director of Marketing

Muriah brings more than a decade of experience in marketing and public relations from a variety of organizations including corporate, non-profit and education. In her tenure at Dascom, and past PR and marketing positions at Concordia College, United Way and public relations agency Padilla Speer Beardsley, Muriah specializes in the ability to align daily tactics with overall strategies. She holds a bachelors degree in Mass Communications- Public Relations and is responsible for directing all marketing and public relations at Dascom.
Jason brings 20 years of experience in systems design, integration, and operations to lead the Dascom field technical team and drive growth of Dascom’s service business…
Jason Roberts, Director of Technical Services

Jason brings 20 years of experience in systems design, integration, and operations to lead the Dascom field technical team and drive growth of Dascom’s service business. Before joining Dascom, Roberts was Operations Director at Clarity Audio/Video Systems where he was responsible for all operational aspects from system design through installation and maintenance. Prior to Clarity, Roberts was IT Director at ITLink, an IT outsourcing company where he was responsible for building and operating their data centers and network; and held various roles at IBM.
Greg is a CPA bringing more than 20 years experience in finance, auditing, account management and corporate control to direct the accounting team at Dascom…
Greg Krizan, Director of Finance

Greg Krizan is a CPA that brings more than 20 years experience in finance, auditing, account management and corporate control to Dascom, joining the team as Director of Finance. With prior corporate controller roles with several prestigious companies and manufacturers, Greg brings financial experience from a diverse company portfolio including Infrasource, Deltak, Mesaba Airlines, Squid Ink Manufacturing and USFilter, a Siemens Water Business. In addition, Greg spent time working for Tracy & Thole CPA firm as an auditor. Greg earned his MBA from Metropolitan State University and an Accounting Degree from University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire.
Leveraging 30 years experience in city, county and state government, as well as experience across wired and wireless telecom, critical infrastructure telecommunications networks…
Dan Draughn, Vice President Business Development
Leveraging 30 years experience in city, county and state government, as well as experience across wired and wireless telecom, critical infrastructure telecommunications networks, power utilities and telephone companies, Dan directs business development for sophisticated integration including voice, video and IT solutions. With past experience at RCC Consultants, Designed Telecommunications, Strategic Telecom Solutions, D&L Communications, Ericsson and Mississippi Power Company/Southern Company, Draughn brings extensive consulting and hands-on experience managing networks from concept through implementation to operation—to help Dascom drive customers to their business goals. His specialty is business development toward clients with mission-critical wide area infrastructure- supporting educational, governmental, public safety, utility and/or commercial network operations.
Bob brings over 20 years of telecommunications experience to Dascom and a myriad of cloud based solutions experience.
Bob Henley, Director of Cloud Services
Bob brings over 20 years of telecommunications experience to Dascom and a myriad of cloud based solutions experience. Bob has worked extensively on dedicated and shared outsourced solution services. Bob holds a B.S. degree from the University of Maryland and is a commercial pilot with previous military service. Bob has architected and managed the construction and integration of many large enterprise and carrier backbone networks having worked as lead systems engineer for The Apex Group, ADC Telecom, was lead sales engineer for TRW Healthcare, to name a few. Bob went on to manage the engineering and sales teams that built a suite of hosted solutions called AppHostTM at USinternetworking (now AT&T) in Annapolis MD. Now, as Director of Cloud Services, Bob is leveraging long standing relationships, vendors, partners and a national private digital network (PDN), to build, run and grow a nationally available hosted application suite for mission critical voice, data and video solutions.
Mike brings extensive experience throughout the telecommunications industry to Dascom…
Mike Carney, National Sales Director- IPTV
Before joining Dascom, Carney was the National Sales Director, IPTV, for the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), where he was responsible for sales of IPTV solutions. Prior to that, Carney assisted early adopter telephone companies in their IPTV deployments at Minerva Networks and Skystream Networks, and held several management positions at Ericsson and RCA. Carney holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Indiana State University.