Tomas Gorny

Tomas Gorny (born August 21, 1975) is a Polish-born American businessman. He is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Unitedweb and Nextiva, a cloud business communications company. In 2001 he founded IPOWER (formerly iPowerweb), a website hosting company. According to Netcraft in 2003, IPOWER was among the fastest growing website hosting providers in the United States.
Career
In 1998, Tomas co-founded iBoost, a content syndication company that was funded by Softbank Venture Capital.
In October 2001, Tomas founded IPOWER and served as CEO for 7 years, growing the company to the second largest web hosting service provider in the United States according to Netcraft with over one million customers. In 2007, Tomas was part of the negotiation for a merger between IPOWER and Endurance International Group, and until the partial sale to Warburg Pincus and Goldman Sachs, he remained the largest individual shareholder. Endurance International Group () went public in 2013 and Tomas one of the board of directors of the company.
In 2008, Tomas co-founded Unitedweb, a concept of a holding company and incubation company focusing on creating companies that are redefining small and midsized business (SMBs) and Small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs). Unitedweb founded Nextiva, a business cloud communication provider and also co-founded IBS, a data technology company.
Awards and recognition
In May 2014, the Phoenix Business Journal named Tomas one of its top "40 under 40" business leaders in the Greater Phoenix Area. Later that year, Tomas was honored with the Ed Denison Business Leader of the Year Award at the Arizona Technology Council's 2014 Governor's Celebration of Innovation. Additionally, he was awarded with the Small Business Influencer Award by Small Business Trends, a leading online magazine for entrepreneurs.
In late 2014, Nextiva was named the fastest growing technology company in Arizona (and 80th in North America) Deloitte’s 2014 Technology Fast 500 Ranking.
Private life
Tomas is married and a father of five children.

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