Richard A. Smith,
Chief Executive Officer:
Rick Smith, an operations and financial specialist, serves
as ProHosters' Chief Executive Officer. Rick previously
held the position of Chief Operating Officer to Thruport
Technologies and Chief Financial and Operating Officer to
Worldstor, Inc., a storage service provider (SSP) company
he co-founded in 1999. Prior to Worldstor, Rick was managing
director/partner at Cassidy & Pinkard, a Washington-based
commercial real estate firm.
S. Scott Blust,
Chief Operating Officer:
As Chief Operating Officer, Scott Blust manages partner
relationships, and oversees the sales, customer service
and marketing divisions of the company. Scott brings more
than 11 years of corporate development and CRM management
experience to the team. Prior to joining ProHosters,
Scott was Director of Marketing and Customer Care for Thruport
Technologies and Vice President of Business Development
for HostingTech magazine. Before entering the IT arena,
Scott served as Director of Production for Atlantic Video,
one of the nation's largest video production centers.
K. Scott Bethke,
Chief Technology Officer:
Scott Bethke manages ProHosters services, network and infrastructure.
He has 20 years of Unix, Windows, networking and data communications
experience, most recently as Director of Engineering to
Thruport Technologies and founder of EzyNet, a regional
ISP started in 1996. Prior to forming EzyNet, Scott was
a senior executive at GSTek, a networking value added reseller.
Before GSTek, Scott was an engineer with C&P Telephone
(now Verizon) focused on network security.
