Management Team

APA Wireless' management team has a proven track record of founding, building and managing successful high-tech electronics and communications companies. APA Wireless evolved out of a group of companies that began with Marlo Electronics, Inc. in 1966 and expanded into a vertically integrated enterprise delivering mission critical components for products ranging from Motorola pagers and heart pacemakers to military avionics and the music recording industry.

Andy Goddard
CEO and
Chairman

APA Wireless CEO Andy Goddard co-founded the Fort Lauderdale, FL-based company in 1997 to develop and commercialize breakthrough technologies for the telecommunications industry.

The company, formerly ICS/Tropical, had its roots in Marlo Electronics, founded by Mr. Goddard's father in 1966. In 1978, Andy Goddard joined Marlo, a respected producer of printed circuit boards for the avionics, medical, data communications, music recording and military industries. He became president in 1980 and led the enterprise's expansion into a family of vertically integrated companies.

Those companies include Marlo International, a printed circuit board import business, formed in 1991, and Tropical Assemblies, an assembler of printed circuit boards, formed in 1994. In 1997, ICS/Tropical, now APA Wireless, was formed to tap the companies' capabilities for new market solutions.

Bill Dietz is co-founder of Marlo International, Tropical Assemblies, ICS/Tropical and APA Wireless. Mr. Deitz is responsible for business development for the companies, he has more than 15 years of experience in management and marketing of high technology electronic components.

Mr. Dietz also serves as president of 3-D Marketing, a company marketing high technology printed circuit boards, contract manufacturing services, cable assemblies and high reliability transformers.

Previously, he was a National Sales Manager for Universal Circuits, where he was responsible for growing annual sales from $10 to $50 million in a three-year period.

Randy Dietz began his career in 1984 as Outside Sales Director for Universal Circuits, where he was responsible for the development of major accounts. Mr. Dietz then co-founded 3D Marketing and brought the company to $10 million annual sales in just three years.

Mr.Dietz co-founded Marlo International, Tropical Assemblies, ICS/Tropical and APA Wireless.

Eliot Fenton founded Integrated Component Systems (ICS) in 1993 to design and manufacture oscillators and synthesizers for the commercial wireless marketplace. After growing his company to ten employees and over 500K/year in sales, he combined it with ICS/Tropical for volume manufacturing of wireless communication products.

Mr. Fenton began his career doing research for Sensormatic Corp. He then moved on to be an RF Engineer for Sunair Electronics, a company which was designing a new HF transceiver for the army "Pacer-Bounce" program, and at which his project team designed the unit's amplifiers, power supplies, and synthesizers. Mr. Fenton continued his engineering work with Z-Communications where he specialized in the design of surface mount oscillators and synthesizers. Fenton then began his own consulting firm EDF Systems specializing in microwave oscillator, synthesizer, and receiver design. Some of his customers included Motorola, Lockheed/Martin, Allied Signal.