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Managing Director at Pierce Capital Partners

Bob Dinkel is an experienced business executive and advisor to a number of early stage firms.

He is also a Managing Director at Pierce Capital Partners, an international investment banking firm providing middle market merger, acquisition, divestiture, and corporate finance services. Mr Dinkel is the former CEO of DroneShield LLC, drone detection via acoustic sensors, prior to DS he was President and COO of FedResults, a premier provider of IT innovation to the federal marketplace. Mr. Dinkel was instrumental in the creation of FedResults,which was formed by the merger of JB Cubed and Government Strategy Advisors in July 2007.

Prior, Mr. Dinkel spent almost 23 years at CA (formerly Computer Associates Intl Inc.)

He joined CA upon its acquisition of Johnson Systems. At JSI, He was head of federal product sales, based in McLean, VA., which became CA's federal sales region. While at CA, he held various senior management positions covering product sales, professional services, corporate administration and strategic alliances in a number of key business locations, including Chicago, Long Island (corporate) and DC.

As a Senior Vice President, he focused on Federal services and built CA's Services unit (CASI) to a staff of 400+ & revenues exceeding $80 million. Upon the creation of CA's Global Professional Services organization, he played a key role in shaping CA's overall services strategy leading up to global responsibility for a staff of more than 2,500. During his 20+ years & multiple locations at CA, assignments involved running CA's federal and commercial field sales divisions, planning selective mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, opening new CA offices and managing international operations that included Canada, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Latin America. Also included standing up a Govt Strategic Alliances organization with the objective to foster relationships with partners to realize maximum business value from their investment in CA technology.