Dinah Weisberg leads REDCOM as the Chief Executive Officer, guiding the company that her parents, Klaus and Brigitte Gueldenpfennig, founded in 1978. She is the second generation to run the business, and she came to the role the long way: through the code, the customers, and nearly every department in the building.
Her career at REDCOM started in 1986 as a summer intern. By 1988, she had joined the development group as a software engineer, and she spent the next sixteen years in engineering, advancing through a series of senior technical roles. Those years in product engineering still shape how she runs the company today.
In 2004, Dinah was promoted to Vice President of Planning and Government Program Administration. For eight years, she led REDCOM’s government and military engagement, building the relationships and program discipline that anchor the company’s defense business today. She was named Executive Vice President in 2012, President in January 2017, and Chief Executive Officer less than a year later.
Under her leadership, REDCOM has sharpened its strategic focus on command and control products for the defense industry, expanded its footprint across DoW and NATO markets, and built a culture that punches well above the company’s size. Dinah’s management philosophy is direct: hire exceptional people, give them real ownership, and get out of their way. It is how a small business in Victor, New York competes against competitors many times its size, and wins.
Dinah holds a BS in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, an MS in Software Development and Management from RIT, and an Executive MBA from RIT.
Outside the company, Dinah is an accomplished professional racecar driver and instructor, a pursuit that says something about how she approaches business. She lives in the Rochester area with her husband, John Weisberg, and their two French Bulldogs, Leeloo and The Stig. Her guiding principle: “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”
