Travis Schaffner – FastServers, Inc.
Travis Schaffner, Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of FastServers.Net. He’s been in the trenches with Ian Andrusyk since the beginning. Many late nights and absences from high school became a normal routine for Travis when he helped found the company (formerly PowerSurge) back in 1996. “It was a ton of work and required a tremendous amount of multitasking. Some nights I only got about three to five hours of sleep, but I made up for it on the weekends with about twenty hours of sleep each night.” Travis said balancing school, athletics, farm work, and an Internet company was not the easiest thing to do at the time. He was obsessed with learning the technology and put forth the effort until the company became self-sustaining without his attention.
Ian Andrusyk – FastServers, Inc.
Ian Andrusyk, President & CEO of FastServers.Net. This is not your ordinary executive and business owner. As a 50% co-founder of FastServers, Inc., Ian has been building his hosting service company since he was 15 years old. Dating back to 1996 with the introduction of PowerSurge Technologies, Ian started the company while he was still in high school. When he wasn’t studying math and science, he was studying how to build what is known today as one of the top twenty hosting providers in the world. Not bad for a high school student running a business out of his parents’ basement. Ian’s late nights working on servers and providing support to customers on the phone is a thing of the past.