Our Culture
We pride ourselves on our ability to assist airports and developers in striking a balance between the need for economic development and the preservation of the National Airspace System. Our experts identify, study, and resolve airspace impacts and airport encroachment.
Meet the Team
Our consultants, managers, and technical team have experience with military, government, and commercial aviation.
Benjamin Doyle
President & CEO
Mr. Doyle is the founder of Capitol Airspace Group. He was an air traffic control chief in the United States Army. Since then, he has supported and advocated for over 2,000 projects through the complex aviation review process.
Joe Anderson
Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Anderson is the Chief Operating Officer of Capitol Airspace Group, coordinating our analytical, advocacy, and spectrum teams to support over 500 projects per month. Mr. Anderson has expertise in airspace design and mitigation. He graduated from Embry-Riddle University with a Master’s Degree in Air Traffic Management.
Karen Nakamura
Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Nakamura is the Chief Financial officer at Capitol Airspace Group. She is a Certified Professional Accountant with over 30 years of experience in corporate accounting and taxation.
Tim Connolly
Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Connolly is the Chief Technology Officer at Capitol Airspace Group. He is an FAA-certified pilot with expertise in Terminal Instrument Procedures and its International equivalent, PANS-OPS, as the FAA process for obstruction evaluation.
Amy Brennan
Chief of Staff
Ms. Brennan is the Chief of Staff at Capitol Airspace Group. She is a skilled professional with expertise in managing complex and growing organizations.
Dan Underwood
Director – Military Programs, Advocacy Team
Mr. Underwood is the Director of Military Programs at Capitol Airspace Group. Ms. Underwood has expertise in navigating the DoD Mission Compatibility Review Process, GIS, and identifying civilian airspace mitigations. After graduating from the US Military Academy at West Point, he was an Army OH-58 helicopter pilot.
James Scott
Director – FAA Programs, Advocacy Team
Mr. Scott is the Director of FAA Programs at Capitol Airspace Group. He has expertise in the FAA Obstruction Evaluation Process, Terminal Instrument Procedures (TERPS) and GIS. Mr. Scott graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a Bachelor of Science in Air Traffic Management and a Master of Science in Aeronautics.
Wesley Williamson
Director – Analytical Team
Mr. Williamson is the Director of Airspace and GIS Analysis at Capitol Airspace group. As such, he manages the people and products of the analytical team, including obstruction evaluations, traffic flow studies, microwave path analysis, glint and glare studies, and mitigation analysis. Mr. Williamson originally joined Capitol Airspace in 2019 as an Airspace/GIS analyst, specializing in obstruction evaluation, airspace analysis, and mitigation studies. He progressed through roles on the analytical team including as a senior analyst, the training supervisor, and the obstruction evaluation product lead before assuming his current role in 2022
Cindy Hunter Cavell
Director – Spectrum Team
Ms. Cavell is a broadcast industry expert who specializes in television facility technical design and operation, broadcast engineering, systems and workflow evaluation, and microwave systems. Ms. Cavell received the AWRT/SBE 2007 Outstanding Female Broadcast Engineer award, the 2015 TV NewsCheck Women in Technology Leadership Award and the 2019 NAB Engineering Achievement Award for Television. At Capitol Airspace Group, she developed our new Communication System Interference Analysis report which studies impacts on AM/FM radio, TV, Land Mobile Radio, and Communication Towers (including cellular).
Lauren Andrade
Project Manager – Advocacy team
David Beranek
Project Manager – Advocacy Team
Skyler Burnam
Project Manager – Advocacy Team
Gary Cavell
Senior Director – Spectrum Team
Don Clemons
Project Manager – Advocacy Team
Robert J. (Bob, Sr) Clinton
Senior Engineer – Spectrum Team
Robert M. (Bob, Jr) Clinton
Senior Engineer – Spectrum Team
Candace Childress
Analyst – Analytical Team
Rick Coles
Senior Project Manager – Advocacy Team
Taylor Couch
Analyst – Analytical Team
Sara DiSciorio
Project Manager – Advocacy Team
Katie Doyle
Filing Manager – Advocacy Team
Peyton Dunow
Analyst – Analytical Team
Kelsey Fogarty
Project Manager – Advocacy Team
Ben Fruitman
Analyst – Analytical Team
Chris Harrington
Project Manager – Advocacy Team
Travis Harrison
Analyst – Analytical Team
John Kean
Senior Engineer – Spectrum Team
Alison (Ali) Kennedy
Analyst – Analytical Team
Micah Kolcum
Analyst – Analytical Team
Debbie Latessa
Assistant Controller – Accounting Team
Nick Lee
Analyst – Analytical Team
Leah MacCallum
Analyst – Analytical Team
Justin Moore
Project Manager – Advocacy Team
Mark Peabody
Senior Engineer – Spectrum Team
Lynn Ray
Project Manager/Consultant – Advocacy
Sofia Scott
Associate Project Manager
Thomas (TJ) Serdinak
Analyst – Analytical Team
Matilda Svensson
Analyst – Analytical Team
Karl Tappert
Analyst – Analytical Team
Karly Beth Van Dam
Assistant Filing Manager – Advocacy Team
Kevin Van Dam
Analyst – Analytical Team
Ayperi Williams
Contracting Officer – Advocacy