Meet the RF Frontiers Team

Arielle Carlson

Arielle brings a rare blend of global perspective and strategic firepower to RF Frontiers. With a decade embedded in DoD culture and a background in international development, she's navigated complex, high-stakes environments where clear communication isn't optional — it's mission-critical. Now channeling that experience as a Marketing Manager and Strategic Planner, Arielle approaches every conversation with creativity, empathy, and a relentless curiosity. Be teachable. Always learning.

Chuck Coxhead

Chuck has spent decades proving that "doing more of the same" is a growth strategy for someone else's success story. With a background spanning Industrial Engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership across defense manufacturing, automation, and high-tech industries, Chuck knows how to cut through competitive noise — because he's done it. His passion for differentiation was forged leading a remarkable business turnaround, and he's been chasing that high ever since.

Dream BIG!

Sean Wallace

Sean has been in a lifelong love affair with test instruments — from a Tektronix spectrum analyzer that seduced him in college to building his own custom RF instruments from scratch and shipping clones around the world. Today he's settled into a committed relationship with PXI that's going strong since 2009. Sean brings deep hands-on RF engineering expertise and a rare gift for making complex technology genuinely fun to talk about.

RF Frontiers Team Philosophy

Yes, the RF Microwave industry runs on specifications.

But, we think that's only half the story. In fact, it doesn’t do justice to the true and full work of this amazing industry with which the modern world would not thrive.

At RF Frontiers, we believe the most important conversations in this industry aren't happening on a data sheet. They're happening in the hallways of small and mid-sized businesses, inside startups navigating their first design win, and in the back offices of companies that have spent decades earning, and sometimes losing, their place in the market. Innovation in this space lives and breathes in the SMB world, and we're here to shine a light on it and learn from it.

We built this podcast to go beyond the sales pitch. Our guests are pioneers, makers, leaders, sellers, marketers, and consultants who have real stories to tell. We are interested in go-to-market strategy and tactics, supply chain, operations, quality, HR, manufacturer's representatives, distributors, and yes — technology too. Heck, we’re interested in anything that is a compelling story from which to learn. We want the honest version: motivation, what works, what doesn’t, what they'd do differently, and what they wouldn’t.

If you love this industry and have something genuine to give back to it, you belong on RF Frontiers.