Web Hosting News – Overland Park, KS - Phillip Spencer, Chief Executive Officer of Codero, a global provider of dedicated server and managed hosting solutions worldwide, has been named a 2009 Pinnacle Award winner for excellence in business and entrepreneurship. Presented by the Johnson County (Kansas) Library Foundation, the Pinnacle Awards honor outstanding individuals for their professional and/or philanthropic achievements.

Previously, Spencer served as president and CEO of Everest Connections, Inc., a Lenexa, KS-based cable, telephone and Internet access provider that thrived in a market dominated by larger competition. Under his leadership, the company grew to more than $60 million in annual revenues and was named second-fastest-growing company in the Kansas City area by Ingram’s Magazine and Ernst and Young.

Spencer joined Aplus.net as CEO in September 2008 and guided the creation of Codero as a new division of the company earlier this year. Upon the sale of Aplus.net and its shared hosting business to Hostopia in July 2009, Codero began focusing exclusively on dedicated server hosting, managed hosting and high-end business solutions. Headquartered in Overland Park, the company currently manages over 6,000 servers and operates data centers in San Diego, CA and Phoenix, AZ.

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(Web Hosting News) OVERLAND PARK, KS – Aplus.Net, a leading web hosting company and Internet solutions provider, has announced changes to its executive management team, including the naming of a new Chief Executive Officer, Phillip Spencer.

Mr. Spencer succeeds Gabriel Murphy as the company’s CEO. Mr. Murphy will remain President of Aplus.Net and will also take on a more tactical oversight role as the company’s new Chief Strategy Officer. Mr. Murphy played a pivotal role as Aplus.Net’s President and CEO during the company’s ownership transition in 2006, and during its move from California to Kansas in 2007.

Mr. Spencer comes to Aplus.Net directly from a highly successful tenure as President and CEO of Everest Connections, Inc., a Lenexa, Kansas-based cable, telephone, and Internet access provider that thrived in a market dominated by larger competition. Under Mr. Spencer’s leadership, the company grew to more than $60 million in annual revenues and was named as one of the fastest-growing companies in the Kansas City area in 2005 by Ingram’s Magazine and Ernst and Young.
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