Tomas Gorny

Tomas Gorny
Born Poland
Nationality Polish American
Occupation CEO[1]
Years active 2001 - Present[2]
Known for Nextiva and IPOWER

Tomas Gorny is a Polish American tech entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Nextiva and the founder of Nextiva, IPOWER,[3] Internet Communications, SiteLock, and UnitedWeb. He resides in Scottsdale Arizona.[4]

Biography

Gorny was born in Poland in 1975. His family moved to Germany when he was 14 where he attended business school.[5] He started a PC distribution business when he was 17.[6] He later immigrated to the United States.[7][8]

In the United States, he worked as a part-time valet boy and carpet cleaner while he was working at Internet Communications, a hosting company,[9] in Hollywood, California. At the age of 22, the company was acquired by Interliant.[7]

Shortly after selling Internet Communications, the Dot-com bubble and 9/11 occurred.[7]

He started IPOWER, a web hosting company in 2001.[2] In 2007, IPOWER was merged with Endurance International. The company was sold to Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs in 2011 for close to $1 billion.[7] The company is now apart of Endurance International Group, a publicly traded company

After the sale of IPOWER, he formed Nextiva, a cloud VOIP service,[10] UnitedWeb, a startup incubator, and SiteLock, a web-security company.[7] Both Nextiva and SiteLock were the two highest ranked Arizona companies in the 2015 Technology Fast 500.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Boss, Jeff. "Inspiring Tips From Tomas Gorny About Making Leadership Work". Forbes. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Who We Are". IPOWER.com. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "IPOWER - About Us". www.ipower.com. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  4. ↑ Bluestein, Adam. "Robots: Coming to an office near you". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Sanfilippo, Marisa (14 April 2016). "Destination American Dream: Technology Innovator Tomas Gorny Shares His Story". Huffington Post (blog). Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "This CEO was a millionaire at 22, went nearly bankrupt, and now runs a $100 million business". Business Insider. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Kim, Eugene (4 June 2016). "This CEO was a millionaire at 22, went nearly bankrupt, and now runs a $100 million business". Business Insider. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  8. ↑ ""Tomas Gorny" Named A Top 100 Champion". Small Business Trends. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "How a Polish Immigrant Made Millions at 23, Lost it All and Made Everything Back". NextShark. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  10. ↑ Randazzo, Ryan. "Telecommunications company Nextiva is growing rapidly". AZ Central. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  11. ↑ Ringle, Hayley. "See which 5 Arizona tech companies are among the fastest growing in the country". Phoenix Business Journal. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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