107 Vista Centre Drive, Forest, VA 24551

CATALYST communications

ABOUT our team

Robin Grier

President
With thirty years of experience in designing, marketing, and implementing critical wireless communications systems, Robin has served as President of Catalyst since 1997. He previously worked at Ericsson (now L3Harris) and TRW (now Northrop Grumman).
Chris Jones

Chris jones

Vice President Sales & Marketing
Drawing on 15+ years of guiding sales teams in public safety communications—and a decade of experience serving his community as a Firefighter and Paramedic—Chris brings a unique blend of leadership, service, and industry experience.

Mike Schools

Vice President of Engineering
John has over 30 years of experience, specializing in building successful sales teams and go-to-market strategies for technology firms.

Chris Worsham

Manager of Operations & Customer Service
Chris has been implementing Catalyst solutions since 2006 for sectors such as public safety, federal agencies, utilities, and education. He formerly served as a volunteer firefighter.

Jack Kelly

Vice President of Marketing
Jack brings more than 30 years of executive sales and marketing leadership within public, private, and venture-backed technology companies. His affiliation with Catalyst began in 1997.

John Hilliard

Vice President of Sales
With 35 years of experience in designing and developing distributed networked communications solutions (voice and data), Mike has led Catalyst’s Voice over IP development since 2005. He previously worked for General Electric and Union Switch and Signal.

Steve McElroy

Director of Business Excellence
Bringing 40 years of experience in quality, program, and operations leadership in high-tech companies, Steve has focused on LMR (Land Mobile Radio) technology programs for the last two decades.