Bil MacLeslie
Bil MacLeslie is the Chief Executive Officer of ipHouse, a Minneapolis based Internet Service Provider. MacLeslie has over 12 years of Internet experience. Prior to starting ipHouse MacLeslie spent 9 years at VISI.com. Prior to VISI.com, MacLeslie spent 2 years at the University of Minnesota operating networks for the Biochemistry Department.
Prior to joining the University of Minnesota in 1992, MacLeslie worked as an independent consultant specializing in planning, installing and maintaining computer networks for corporate and educational institutions.
MacLeslie was lured into the field of technology after spending a decade mastering the technical challenges of theatre and live & recorded performance. As a stage and sound technician, he spent three years with the Guthrie Theater and toured nationally with such acts as The Replacements, REM, X, The Jets, Rod Stewart and The Nylons. He's worked his backstage magic with Graham Chapman, Bruce Willis, Harry Anderson, Theatre de le Jeune Lune, Emo Phillips, Todd Rundgren, Louie Andersen, The Minnesota Opera, Judy Collins, NRBQ, The Pixies, Tina Turner and countless others.
In 2002 MacLeslie earned the coveted 40 under 40 award from The Business Journal, placing him as one of the top business people under 40 in Minnesota. MacLeslie is also former President of the Minnesota Internet Services Trade Association and actively monitors public affairs and regulatory issues relating to telecom and Internet in Minnesota. In his role at ipHouse he supervises marketing, brand identity, sales, development of new products and service for customers. MacLeslie has also served on the Board of the Minnesota High Tech Association.
Mike Horwath
Mike Horwath is the reigning CTO (whoa, acronyms!) of ipHouse with over 17 years of Internet experience from the technical operations in an ISP enviornment.
Prior to starting ipHouse with MacLeslie and Lyon, Mike spent 8 years at VISI.com as the lead tech/director of network engineering/chief scientist (loads of titles! I wanted to be NE/RD but Doug McIntyre stole that title).
Prior to VISI.com, Mr. Horwath spent 3 years at another ISP he founded, Winternet, which at the time was the largest ISP in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. Ah... 9600bps, SLIP, Trumpet Winsock, Internet in a Box, and life before the web.
Before that... Mike had spent several years as a BBS operator, database author/administrator, and general systems builder/consultant dealing with a variety of different hardware, operating systems and databases, including PICK. Anyone remember PICK? VMS and DCL? SyncSort? DOS-5? DOOM? Kareteka? TPro BBS? COBOL? GNO?
Eric Snyder (Senior Sales Guru)
Eric Snyder has over 13 years of Internet experience in Twin Cities' Internet Service Provider market. Eric was one of the original founders of GoldenGate Internet Services in 1995. Eric came over to ipHouse with the merger of GoldenGate into ipHouse in 2004. At ipHouse Eric has moved back into his original calling of sales as a Senior Sales Guru. Before his time at GoldenGate/ipHouse, Eric has worked in computer sales at Zeos, Sales and Management at Software Etc, and as an independent network consultant.
Doug Rau (Webmaster)
Doug Rau is the ipHouse webmaster, responsible for This Mess Here. Doug has been working with computers for over 450 million seconds, starting with programming on the Apple ][. In his younger days, he studied aerospace engineering and worked in the dark, seedy underworld of RF propagation prediction and analysis software, before becoming distracted by something shiny called the Internet. Doug spent 8 years as webmaster of VISI.com before coming over to ipHouse.
When Doug isn't programming, he is likely to be with his wife, gaming with paper and funny dice, listening to techno music, or watching anime. When Doug isn't near a computer, he is likely to be suffering withdrawl, please approach him only if necessary and do not make any sudden moves.