Dennis R. Pape, PhD is a physicist by training who has spent three decades inside Florida's defense and deep tech ecosystem. He founded Photonic Systems, helped build Milcom Technologies' (now Arsenal Venture Partners)’s portfolio of 14 dual-use tech companies that attracted over $600M in venture capital, co-founded SeedFundersOrlando (20 angel investments), and sits on the board of the Florida Venture Forum. He backed Rapta and Seagate Space because he could read the technical signal before the round was competitive. That is what Phase Shift is built around.