Leadership
A team that lives and breathes higher education
Our leadership team has the right combination of expertise in higher education, technology, IT, engineering, operations, customer experience and relationships, marketing, and talent recruitment and retention. We give colleges and universities the power to do and achieve more with leading-edge managed technology services that enable a thriving higher education system.
Scott Drossos
Chief Executive Officer
Scott Drossos is CEO of Apogee. He has extensive experience in higher education and managed technology services having served as COO at InterVision Systems after leading the successful merger with his previous firm, Infiniti Consulting Group. As President of Infiniti he transformed the company into a prolific cloud services provider.
Drossos also previously served as President and Senior Vice President at Pearson North America, as Senior Vice President of Digital Partnerships at McGraw Hill Education, and as President, Chief Development Officer and Executive Vice President of Strategy and Marketing at Edison Learning.
Mark Holt
Chief Financial Officer
Mark rejoined the Apogee team in March 2010. After playing a key role in Apogee’s first five years from 1998 through 2003, Mark left to gain valuable experience, and a change in climate, at Alaska DigiTel, a regional provider of cellular voice and data services.
While at DigiTel, Mark was part of a team that grew subscribers from 7,000 to 40,000 over 5 years. In 2008 the company was acquired by an Alaskan statewide telephone and cable operator, GCI, for $40 million. Post acquisition, Mark served as a Director for GCI overseeing voice and messaging products. With an institutional perspective on Apogee’s vision and more than a decade of telecommunications experience, Mark’s drive for organizational growth and scalability is well-suited to Apogee’s customers, employees, and leadership team.
Mark has a degree in Accounting from St. Edward’s University and has earned the designation of Certified Public Accountant.
Kevin Reichle
Chief Operating Officer
Kevin joined the Apogee team in March 2020. As Chief Operating Officer, Kevin provides leadership in driving operational excellence within the company and also focuses on leading strategy and strategic initiatives. Kevin leads a talented group focused on ensuring we have the right operations, processes, teams, and resources to serve our customers and meet their needs today and into the future.
Kevin comes to Apogee from Accruent where he most recently served as Chief of Staff, overseeing IT, Business Systems, Enterprise PMO, and Strategic Programs. Prior to his Chief of Staff role, Kevin served as General Manager of Telecom, VP of Business Operations, and VP of People and Talent. Prior to Accruent, Kevin held multiple Finance, Operations, and Strategy leadership roles at Dun & Bradstreet and Hoover’s Online.
Kevin has a BBA in Finance and an MBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurship from The University of Texas at Austin.
Keesha Galindo
Vice President, HR & Talent
Keesha is a start-up veteran with a broad range of HR experiences. At Apogee, she serves as the Vice President of Human Resources, where she leads the people strategy, focused on making good teams great.
Working at GoDaddy.com in Scottsdale, Arizona, Keesha led the training and recruiting teams at a time when the company doubled in size each year for six consecutive years. She then joined the co-founders of Art.com working in their venture incubator advising on people strategies for multiple pre-launch companies, and then joined Retail Me Not to help reorganize the recruiting department during their IPO.
She’s a Texas A&M Aggie, and when not at work she and her family are watching soccer or planning their next National Park adventure.
Matt Loecke
Executive Vice President
Matt Loecke joined Apogee in 2013 and is responsible for sales strategy, business development, and day to day management of the Apogee sales organization.
Prior to joining Apogee, Matt worked as a sales strategy and management consultant to companies in technology, engineering, software, and pharmaceuticals, serving a diverse set of clients in North America and abroad. Previously, Matt served as VP of Sales for a collegiate media firm based in Chapel Hill, NC. In this capacity Matt was responsible for sales force management and development across 200+ campuses in 46 states.
Matt is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and the Young Executive Institute, Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
Teresa de Onis
Vice President, Marketing
Teresa de Onis is a 25-year Austin marketing veteran with expertise in integrated marketing, communications, and change management across multiple industries including semiconductors, distance learning systems, information technologies, and higher education. She transforms marketing and communications by combining strategy and storytelling to create and execute compelling and authentic marketing strategies, value propositions, communication plans, brand architectures, sales enablement plans and tools, campaigns, and customer experience journeys.
Teresa holds an MBA, BA, and certificate in change management, all from the University of Texas at Austin. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese and has worked and traveled abroad extensively. When not at work, she’s busy raising her daughter and money for the fight against pancreatic cancer.
George Ragsdale
Vice President, Technical Services
George Ragsdale joined the Apogee team in September 2018 and is responsible for the vision and strategy of the customer service delivery model, as well as, development of the common technology platform and integration strategy to support Apogee customers.
Prior to joining Apogee, George served as the CTO for Proactive Communications where he worked for 14 years before joining Apogee. George was responsible for the global operations of the company across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia where he was responsible for driving business value through the implementation of automated and repeatable business processes to ensure an optimal customer experience. While at Proactive Communications, George played an integral part in designing and building the global internet service offering for data, VoIP, security, and acceleration services for fortune 500 companies and government customers.
George has conducting undergraduate studies at McNeese State University, Trinity University, and Colorado Tech. He holds degrees in Computer Science and International Business. He also holds advanced degrees to include a dual focus MBA from Colorado Tech in Information Technology Management and Project Management. George also holds various certifications in multiple information technology and management disciplines including Project Management, Project Planning, Global Operations Management, and the administration of mission critical networks.
Peter Casanave
Vice President, Product
Pete has worked for over 25 years in the IT industry, with over 23 years strictly focused on network security and mission-critical wide-area network services. He is responsible for helping to steer the architectural growth and development strategy of Apogee’s products, managing the team of product managers, developers, and architects, as well as the professional development, mentoring, and coaching of all network engineers within Apogee’s team of talented professionals.
Pete brings a lifetime of solid always-on networking discipline and strategic knowledge to Apogee. He is a combat veteran of the United States Army with numerous combat tours, where he received the Bronze Star Medal in combat, amongst many other awards and decorations. He is one of a few enlisted service members to have ever been inducted in the U.S. Army’s Bronze Order of Mercury, even before becoming a senior Non-Commissioned Officer. This was in recognition of his efforts in leading Multi-National Forces Iraq strategy and effort in commercializing tactical communications via Cisco-based networking and VoIP solutions, amongst other efforts in making a more efficient and effective operational communications platform. This included time embedded with numerous branches of the U.S. Department of Defense in combat. He was also led the U.S. Army’s communications effort at the U.S. Embassy – Baghdad, Iraq and the engineering team for the Collation Joint Network Operations Command and Control Center – Iraq (JNCC-I), both as critical Non-Commissioned Officer-In-Charge (NCOIC) roles.
Rob Paver
Vice President, Project Operations
Rob is a skilled technology professional with 15+ years of project management and construction experience in the student housing industry. As Vice President of Project Operations, he oversees a skilled team of project managers to ensure all network and video implementations are done effectively. Prior to Apogee, Rob was the director of technical services at American Campus Communities, the nation’s largest developer, owner, and manager of high-quality student housing. He oversaw the IT integration of more than 100 acquired properties totaling 65,000 beds across the United States. He also managed the design, implementation, and delivery of more than 30 student housing developments with over 25,000 beds. During his tenure, Rob developed a platform that maximizes service value while effectively tracking residents’ satisfaction and costs.
Rob began his career at Apogee, the nation’s largest provider of innovative on-campus residential networks, where as technical operations director, he developed standard procedures for determining potential project value and market expansion opportunities, along with the management skills required to handle major projects, such as the telecommunications infrastructure retrofit of a $6-million, 5,500-bed university.
With the vision to maximize budgetary goals while meeting residents’ expectations, Rob has built stalwart long-term relationships with numerous student housing owners, developers and higher-education institutions. He has a bachelor of arts in business administration from Southwestern University.