Management Team
Bill Young
Managing Partner / Founder / Chief Executive Officer
Experience
When Bill Young founded XploreNet, along with Treg Meldrum and Karen King in January
of 1997, the Internet was a strange word defined primarily by opportunity and curiosity.
XploreNet's success and longevity comes from the drive and heart of Co-founder,
Bill Young . Young's vision has built a Web development and consulting company
that brings a human perspective to a technology-driven industry. XploreNet was different
from the beginning, conceived as an ISP (Internet Service Provider) and growing
to create divisions in development, consulting, networks, and hosting. Young accomplished
all this with no outside equity investment until June of 1998, when the company
gained funding from an angel group led by a cofounder of a successful wholesale
newspaper distributor in Germany.
In 2000, Young was recognized by the Denver Business Journal as a winner of the
"Forty Under 40" award. In addition to XploreNet, Young also has interests
in two other firms and conducts training seminars and speaks to several schools,
organizations, associations, and non-profit groups each year.
In 2005, Young teamed with Michael Sevilla to write the book Webplicity - The
Critical Guide to Successful Web Strategies™ The idea was to
help C-level executives, business owners, marketing, and IT personnel with understanding
and completing a web plan. Young understood from the beginning the importance of
building successful and profitable client relationships lies in providing the customer
with full web support. Clients need to be able to understand all the options available
to create a solid and comprehensive web plan that will launch them from the present
and enable to realize the vision. The Intelligent Development System™ was
born from XploreNet's development processes and through "real life" customer
experiences. XploreNet's team realized that building web pages is simple, but helping
clients understand their options and best practices is what brings success or failure
in an often unforgiving environment.
Making a Difference
Young is Past President of the Denver
Active 20-30 Children's Foundation, a non-profit service organization whose
mission is to raise money for at-risk and disadvantaged youth through fundraising
events, such as the Denver Polo Classic
and Brokers Benefiting
Kids and Christmas For Kids.
The organization has benefited various children's charities like the Griffith Center
for Children, Colorado I have A Dream Foundation, Denver Kids, Inc. and Anchor Center
for Blind Children. Young served as the Event Chairman of the Denver Polo Classic
in 2001 and 2002 and was recognized by the organization as the Rookie-of-the-Year
in 2001 and Member-of-the-Year in 2002 and 2003.
Additionally, Yong sits on the Board of Directors for Denver Kids, Inc. - a counseling and mentoring program for
children K-12 in the Denver Public School system, the Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian Home
- the Rocky Mountain region's largest treatment center and K-8 school for abused
and neglected children, ages 5-14, and the Anchor Center for Blind Children - a school for the visually
impaired that teaches life skills to children from birth through age 5.
Dave Dixon
Vice President of Client Services / Chief Operating Officer
Experience
Dave Dixon brings 12-years of marketing, account/product management and operations
experience with companies from a wide range of industries, such as the worldwide
ad agency of Young & Rubicam, the Broadband division of AT&T - now Comcast
- and Great-West Healthcare.
He began his career with the Young & Rubicam where he was ultimately responsible
for managing multi-million dollar advertising and marketing efforts for the West
and Midwest regions of the Ford Motor Company's Lincoln-Mercury division. While
with the AT&T Broadband, who at the time was the nation's largest cable operator,
he managed the development and execution of numerous national marketing campaigns
for their digital cable, digital telephone and high-speed Internet products. He
has managed the operations of a boutique, strategic marketing studio and most recently
before joining XploreNet was a member of the product development team with Great-West
Healthcare, where he led various initiatives to improve their managed care and life
insurance products.
Making a Difference
Dixon is the President of the Denver
Active 20-30 Children's Foundation, a non-profit service organization whose
mission is to raise money for at-risk and disadvantaged youth through fundraising
events, such as the Denver Polo Classic
and Brokers Benefiting
Kids and Christmas For Kids.
The organization has benefited various children's charities like the Griffith Center
for Children, Colorado I have A Dream Foundation, Denver Kids, Inc. and Anchor Center
for Blind Children. Dixon served as the Event Chairman of the Denver Polo Classic
in 2004 and was recognized by the organization as the Member-of-the-Year in that
same year.
Additionally, Dixon sits on the Board of Directors for Denver Kids, Inc.- a counseling and mentoring program for
children K-12 in the Denver Public School system, the Anchor Center for Blind Children- a school for the visually
impaired that teaches life skills to children from birth through age 5, and is the
Assistant Committee Chairman for the Walking Scoring Observers Committee at The INTERNATIONAL at Castle Pines PGA golf tournament.
Ian Holtz
Director, Business Development
Experience
Ian Holtz began his professional career at the Institute of Behavioral Genetics (IBG) aiding in an ongoing Heritability Twin Study over a 3-year span while working towards a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Holtz began his tenured sales career at US West Communications in consumer markets. He moved to Qwest as a C-Level sales executive in enterprise markets after building the small business sales office with tremendous market penetration in the emerging technologies of wireless and DSL. During that time he received three consecutive President's Club nominations recognizing only the top 1% of the organization's entire staff. Holtz was also involved in Qwest's early nationwide marketing campaign profiling employees and re-branding efforts for the company's current trademark - The Spirit of Service. During the campaign he was featured on television commercials, newspaper and internet ads as a voice for Qwest.
After moving on to strengthen mortgage banking joint ventures between Wells Fargo and Bank of the West, Ian helped launch a Denver web-based advertising startup. He was instrumental in the early business development stages of an online live video entertainment directory, focusing on both long and short term growth strategies. From concept, testing and launch Ian was integral in the company's subsequent success.
Making a Difference
Holtz and his 9-year old daughter are both active volunteers in horse rescue and riding therapy for Colorado children with developmental disabilities. He discovered Rocky Mountain Riding Therapy while covering the organization for a story he authored for the Colorado Daily, a Boulder based newspaper agency. Holtz has freelanced regularly for the paper profiling locally owned businesses in Boulder's famous "Hill" area.
Treg Meldrum
Co-Founder, Chief Financial Officer
Experience
Treg Meldrum helped to grow the company in the beginning, when he assisted Young
with the closing on several rounds of funding from an angel group led by the co-founder
of a successful wholesale newspaper distributor in Germany. Meldrum also serves
as Chairman and CEO of Arapahoe Vacuum.
Meldrum brings 12 years of general ledger, natural gas accounting and web project
experience, including systems conversions and management of large application programming
projects to XploreNet. In the early 1990's, he worked closely with Andersen Consulting
to help Western Gas Resources, Inc. integrate desktop software with a legacy mainframe
system. In the KN Energy acquisition of American Oil & Gas, he converted the
accounting systems to TIPS. Throughout his career at XploreNet, he has assisted
in fulfilling Internet solutions for hundreds of clients. Meldrum enjoys the challenge
of working with a variety of industries and being surrounded by talented, creative
people. He has proven he lives by the saying, "There is no try. There is only
do or not do." In his spare time, which is rare, he enjoys hiking and skiing
in the Rocky Mountains.
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