EasyStreet Management Tech Savvy

Rich Bader

Rich Bader

President & CEO
Co-Founder

Rich is the driving force behind EasyStreet’s success. His rare blend of technology and entrepreneurial expertise has also made him a guiding light in the Northwest high-tech community. Rich has served in general management at Intel, as a prominent industry analyst, and consulting for the likes of HP, Microsoft, Tektronix and others on technology and infrastructure management. He holds a B.S.E.E. from Northeastern University.

Jon Crowhurst

Jon Crowhurst

Director of Technical Services
Co-Founder

Jon manages all technical facilities at EasyStreet. He is an expert in design, construction, installation, maintenance and operations of data center facilities. Before co-founding EasyStreet, he served for 12 years as Director of Computing and Networking for Oregon Graduate Institute, and provided strategic consulting for OGI Telecomm, Pacific University and NorthWestNet. Jon earned degrees in Computer Science and Geography from University of Oregon.

Jack Flug

Jack Flug

Vice President Finance

Since 2006 Jack has provided overall direction and day-to-day management of company financial operations. His in-depth tech industry experience includes Finance Director at Cadence Design Systems. Jack is also an active member on several local boards and committees. He holds a B.S.B.A. with emphasis in Accounting and Finance from Oregon State University.

Steve Knipple

Steve Knipple

Vice President Engineering and Operations

With 16 years’ in IT enterprise strategy, architecture and operations, Steve is a specialist in corporate IT transformations of local, national and global scale. Previously, Steve developed disaster recovery programs for global, regional and local data centers, and led Wacker Chemical’s deployment of virtualized hosting. He holds a B.S.M.E. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.S. in Applied Information Management from the University of Oregon.

G Dean Oswald

G. Dean Oswald

Vice President Sales

Dean’s passion, consultative skills and leadership help foster the “customer-as-partner” relationships for which EasyStreet is known. His relationship-building experience also includes senior positions at Cisco, AT&T and Lucent, plus VP Sales and GM for MSI Systems Integrators. Dean holds a B.A. in Computer Information Systems from Boise State University.

Todd Grant

Todd Grant

Vice President Accounting

Todd joined EasyStreet in January 2013 when the company merged with Infinity Internet, where he had served for nearly 10 years as CFO. He has deep experience in accounting and the telecom industry, having held high-level positions at Vista Broadband Networks, Advanced Telecom Group and GST Telecom. Todd holds a B.S. in Accounting from California Polytechnic State University and an M.B.A. with Presidential Honors from the City University of Seattle.