DakotaPro.biz is proud to present our Leadership team. Below, you will read about the breadth and scope of our experience and understand how DakotaPro.biz is able to deliver our services in a manner that has earned us such recognition in the community.
Bill Bosmeny, President
Bill received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, where he graduated Cum Laude. Bill has worked in a variety of corporations, including Caterpillar Tractor, IBM, and General Electric, where he learned six-sigma quality, manufacturing and process engineering. While at GE, Bill helped build a national sales force at GE, with a strong focus on selling with integrity and understanding business requirements.
Bill founded ultraSW.com as a local Internet provider in 1999, dedicated to providing quality Internet solutions at reasonable prices. The acquisition of DakotaPro.biz in 1995 furthers Bill's passion to reshape the Internet business here in Southern Arizona. Bill is known for building a very efficient business platform because he believes that serves the customers best. Bill says "We need to delight our customers every day with the speed and quality of our service, all while never losing our human touch".
Bill has been a Tucson resident since 1983 with a brief stint living in Boston. He is very involved in the community, with strong support of the local schools. He currently sits on the board of the Tucson chapter of Amigos de las Américas. He sees it as a privilege to live and raise his family in this wonderful community. Bill is married with 4 children.
Chris Phillips, Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Chris graduated from Brigham Young University in the 80's. After college he entered active duty in the US Army as a combat medic and radio communications specialist and served during the first gulf war.
Following military service, Chris started Rocky Mountain Internet, Inc. in 1993. The company went from a 2 man operation to more than 300 employees over a 4 year period and became one of the largest commercial Internet Service Providers in the Rocky Mountain Region. By 1997, the company had completed a successful IPO and had a market capitalization of nearly $100 million.
In 1998, Chris again leveraged his entrepreneurial talent by funding a new telecommunications startup, Vanion, Inc. With more than $2 million in seed capital, the company began providing advanced data and business telephone services in Colorado as a CLEC, using packet voice technology. The company raised more than $20 million in several rounds of VC and private funding and achieved annual gross revenues of $7 million.
Chris joined Gain Communications, Inc in 2005 as Vice-President of Operations and was later promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing with the merger of Gain Communications, Inc. and Dakota Internet Partners, Inc. With more than 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur and businessman, Chris brings a breadth of business experience and strategic vision to the company.
Craig Preble, Director of Wireless and Facilities
Craig, a Tucson native, has been an entrepreneur since age 14. He has been involved with a number of businesses, including his own successful electrical contracting company. His attention to detail and customer service, plus his breadth of construction and trade experience won him clients such as Hewlett Packard, U of A, The City of Tucson, Siemens, Digital and many others.
In 1999, Craig decided to be a pioneer in the wireless business when he was a co-founder of Tucson Broadband. In 2003, he merged with Gain Communications to continue to build a fixed-wireless system that covers the Tucson area.
Craig leads the Fixed Wireless team at Dakota while also being responsible for our facilities. Craig's ingenuity and "can do" spirit is often a key part of Dakota's delivery of customized services. Craig has also been involved with a number of fund-raising efforts with local charities, including TMC and Children's Miracle Network. Craig is married with 3 children.
Neil Falls, Director of Server Operations and Customer Support
Neil Falls has more than 10 years of technical and customer service experience with an emphasis on supporting customers on how to use and troubleshoot Internet technologies.
Along with his long history of helping customers, Neil also has over 12 years of leadership experience across multiple industries. Most recently, Neil managed the call center at "The River". This has given him a unique understanding of how to look at challenges, and come up with ways of evolving his team to deal with the ever changing Internet and customer service expectations.
Neil Falls has an exceptional track record of quickly identifying and diagnosing better ways to support customers that use technologies offered by DakotaPro.biz. Neil leads both the Technical Support and Provisioning teams, ensuring that if you contact DakotaPro.biz for assistance, one of his team members will be assisting you. Use of the Internet is inevitably getting more complex; Neil's goal is to create the "Human Touch in Technology" each and every time we work with our customers. Neil is also married.Laura Colony, Director of Finance and Human Services
Laura has over 20 years experience in Accounting and operations since starting her career at Arthur Andersen & Co. after obtaining her Bachelor of Science in Accounting at San Diego State University.
Laura has considerable experience in working with and owning companies to manage their accounting and operations to their most efficient levels. Her background in various industries gives her a broad and expansive viewpoint to bring new and entrepreneurial ideas to Dakota.
She is also very active, and has been for many years, in charitable organizations, including Special Olympics, The Humane Society, Junior Achievement, and specific breed rescue and is the Regional Director for the Arizona Region of the Internet Miniature Pinscher Service, Inc.
She has received numerous awards since college, including the Outstanding Young Woman of America award and, most recently, the Outstanding Professional Woman’s Association Award.
