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Jesse Rasch is the co-founder
and past Chairman & CEO of InQuent
Technologies and WebHosting.Com.
InQuent provides private label hosting solutions to
telecommunications customers including Bell Canada,
KPN, Telecom New Zealand, PCCW, AT&T, Comcast, &
Cox Communications. WebHosting.Com was one of the largest business web hosting companies in the world.
In 2000, Rasch sold InQuent and WebHosting.Com to SBC
Communications (now AT&T).
In 2002, Rasch orchestrated a management team acquisition
of InQuent from AT&T. Rasch successfully sold InQuent
once more in 2003. InQuent is now a subsidiary of Network
Solutions.
Rasch is widely credited with establishing the wholesale
web hosting market segment that is a significant component
of the $30 billion annual web hosting market.
Rasch also co-founded VerticalScope
in 1999, a media company that develops and acquires
online media and community properties in various vertical markets. VerticalScope's targeted network of web properties
is visited by over 12,000,000 people per month. VerticalScope's market leading automotive publishing division, the
Modified Automotive Group,
was acquired by Primedia
in 2007.
In addition to his involvement in a number of charitable
roundtables, Rasch is a proponent of venture philanthropy
and is active in encouraging entrepreneurs to participate
in strategic philanthropy. He established the Rasch
Foundation in 2000 to invest in causes that reflect
Rasch's broad charitable interests.
In 2001, Rasch was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur
of the Year award.
He has been featured in Time Magazine, The Globe &
Mail, Canadian Business, The National Post, Network
World, Computer World, Macleans, and on CBC, CTV, Global,
City-TV, ROBTV, and many other print, televised, and
radio media. He was a founding member of the Canadian
E-Business Opportunities Roundtable, a joint private
and public sector advisory group on e-business in Canada.
ceo@aprilis.com
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Read Jesse's Blog
on Venture Philanthropy, Angel Investing, &
Entrepreneurship. |
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Read an interview
with Jesse Rasch on the Canadian perspective on
the competition for IT talent, from the Heidrick
& Struggles Leadership Opus. |
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