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Your Team
Employee Unity    Our dedicated staff make all the difference. We appreciate their hard work and commitment to your excellence. Partner ISPs will tell you, our staff consistently delivers the finest support available from any wholesale ISP organization in the world. The quality of service you and your subscribers receive from us is due in no small part to their professionalism.

We invest in our people, too, providing them with training in the latest technologies to keep them ahead of the field. In recognition of our commitment to our staff, visp.net received the Workforce Development Award from SOREDI.org for excellence in supporting employee growth and opportunity. That’s one of the reasons our people stick with us year after year. We also trust them to make the right decisions about day-to-day operations. We’re more responsive to customer needs that way, and we end up with a higher caliber team as a result.

Each member of our staff makes a unique contribution to visp.net. Each one holds him- or herself accountable for the total performance of the team. It’s their commitment that enables us to do whatever it takes to make you successful.
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Nathan Miller    Nathan Miller
President / CTO
direct: 541-955-6908
email: available upon request

Nathan Miller is the kind of leader and technical wizard every company wishes it had. Nathan began his career at the ripe old age of 15 as Internet and IT guru for one of the country’s largest gem distributors, Fire Mountain Gems.

Uptime is everything at visp.net. So Nathan directly manages or personally oversees all system administration functions at visp.net, including ISP migrations, which is how visp.net confidently offers our ISPs the best guarantees in the industry.

He has been with visp.net since the beginning. Nathan created our Billing and Customer Self Maintenance systems, co-developed our Permissions Technology, and is the genius behind our exceptional server reliability and industry-leading uptime performance. Our customers benefit from Nathan’s innovations every day. You’ll be glad he’s on your team.
Todd Grannis    Todd Grannis
visp.net Founder and CEO
direct: 541-955-6904
email: tgrannis@visp.net

Todd Grannis was building an Internet business before most people even knew what the World Wide Web was. In 1990 he co-founded one of the first nationwide online services, Public Data Network. He subsequently co-created what became the world’s largest and most popular BBS Chat Networking Software, Chatlink!

Todd founded visp.net in 1996. The visp.net solution was the first of its kind in the Internet Service Provider business. Today Todd is active with other business leaders in the community and openly applies high-performance business management principals with his team in the management of visp.net operations. This has resulted in some very satisfied ISPs.

Other accomplishments:
  • Present - Leading visp.net with record sales in 2008
  • 1996-Present - Led visp.net through growth nearly every year since its inception
  • 1994-1996 - Founded Rogue Equipment, a whitewater raft distributor that after just two years outsold all other SOTAR distributors world wide combined. Sold the company in 1996 to focus on visp.net
  • 1988-1994 - One of Oregon’s top producers representing the National Association for the Self Employed. Top 1% of producers nationwide, and then the youngest manager ever hired of approximately 30,000 reps and managers hired in the company’s history to that date

Community involvement and volunteer work:
  • Present - Organized the Technology Cluster under SOHPEC to bring together local technology companies and resources to improve the regions technology industries
  • Present - Board member and Marketing Committee Leader of SOHPEC, an organization dedicated to building the region’s business into high performance, lean enterprises by eliminating waste and maximizing value delivered to customers
  • Present - Volunteer and advocate for transformational learning at Wings Seminars, where most of visp.net staff have attended effectiveness training. “At visp.net, we’re truly committed to developing &lsqou;the whole person’ not just the 40 hour a week employee.”

Community, business & personal recognition:
  • Company Awards
  • BR&E - Oregon Dreamer Award (2007)
  • Nominated for BR&E - Business Champion Award (2007)
  • Nominated for BR&E - Against All Odds Award (2007)