Ben Welch-bolen

CEO and Co-Owner

Ben Welch-bolen is involved in the day to day operations of Site5, project management, and the long term goals of improving customer service, improving server stability, and making sure customers are happy and content.

Ben has been involved in the web hosting industry for over ten years and both run his own hosting companies and worked for some of the largest hosts in the world. Ben has been a webmaster since the age of 9 and loves to blog and build sites that help people learn about building their own websites.

Contact Ben: bwb AT site5.com

Joel Brown

President and Co-Owner

Joel Brown is in charge software development and implementing the long term vision of Site5. At Site5 we offer our customers a custom control panel that makes it easier to run your website and Joel works on tweaking and growing the list of features for our customers.

Joel started working in the industry as a web designer, and slowly moved into web development and programing. He spends a lot of his time working with PHP and MySQL. He's done a little bit of everything and on a random day you might find him creating ad layouts, managing tech support, optimizing SEO campaigns, copy editing, and improving our web design. If Joel doesn't know how to do it yet, he can probably figure it out.

Contact Joel: joel AT site5.com

Vince Stratful

Chief Technology Officer

Vince was one of Site5's first employees, way back in 2000. After working his technical magic for many years as our most senior level Systems Administrator, Vince is now our Chief Technology Officer. When not planning upgrades, overlooking our network infrastructure, etc. Vince is most likely staying up all hours of the night to make sure our servers are up and running smoothly.

Contact Vince: vstratful AT site5.com

Tom Sepper

Chief Operating Officer

Tom Sepper holds the position of Site5's Chief Operating Officer. Tom brings to Site5 a hard working, hands-on, team-oriented management style. He is an advocate for the web hosting industry having experienced it from both perspectives: customer and employee. Tom is a proponent for improving the customer experience via open lines of communication. He, just like clients, is a designer, programmer and webmaster having been developing for almost fifteen years.

In addition to the lovely job of handling "completely random and important stuff at large" Tom's responsibilities include: managing Site5's sales and billing operations, maintaining the site5.com website, managing the Site5 Community Forums, overseeing the Site5Wiki, and aiding the various Site5 departments through the use of his versatile “jack of all trades” skill set.

Contact Tom: tsepper AT site5.com

Garret Noling

Director of Technical Operations

Garret has been with Site5 for three years, since September 2005. Solving advanced problems is Garret's favorite past-time. Now that he is Site5's Director of Technical Operations, in addition to managing the Site5 Technical Support operation, Garret spends most of his time in the background enjoying his past-time even more.

Garret has been working with computers since he was very young, with his first gui library created for Allegro completed before entering the 9th grade. Garret also excels at voiding warranties on just about anything he purchases. If it ain't broke, he fixes it anyway.

Contact Garret: gnoling AT site5.com

Justin Mazzi

Chief of Engineering

Justin Mazzi is in charge of all software engineering at Site5. He developed a passion for problem solving at an early age and that passion led him to an interest in web development. Justin now has over ten years of programming experience, which started with PHP and MySQL. His current language of choice is Ruby, but he doesn't mind working in other languages when the need arises.

Most of Justin's time is spent enhancing our customer's awesome control panel, Backstage, in addition to our internal management system, Synco. When he's not living in his text-editor, Justin enjoy's dirt-biking, Jeet Kune Do, and spending time with his family.

Contact Justin: jmazzi AT site5.com

Graham McMillan

Deputy Director of Technical Operations

Graham began working for Site5 in 2007 as a System Administrator and was made Deputy Director of Technical Operations in mid-2009. He is responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of Site5's Technical Support department in addition to assisting in the management of its server infrastructure.

Graham has always been fascinated by computers, technology and open source software. When Graham is away from his desk, he enjoys running, hiking, and playing tennis.

Contact Graham: gmcmillan AT site5.com

Matt Lightner and Rod Armstrong

The Founders

Matt Lightner and Rod Armstrong founded Site5 in 1999 and have been working intimately with the company since that time. Matt and Rod built the company on the philosophy that web hosting should be easy, fun, accessible, reliable and generally not painful to use. The founders held the positions of CEO and President respectively until 2007, when they decided to allow a new team of extremely eager and talented professionals handle the reigns of the operations so that they could work on more specific projects and areas for Site5. Matt and Rod passed the reigns of Site5 onto Ben and Joel in October 2008.