Peggy Dolgenos - Founder and CEO of Cruzio

January 25, 2009

The Internet is still an interesting and exciting field for Cruzio co-founder Peggy Dolgenos. She’s currently involved in expanding Cruzio’s horizons, in new technology such as online classified ads and business areas like wireless access. Peggy’s technical background — a degree in Computer Science, combined with 18 years of experience working with computers — adds to her understanding of the inner workings of the Internet. But she’s never forgotten her non-geek roots, and works hard to make Cruzio’s technology useful and understandable to artists and paralegals as well as computer engineers.

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Following an East Coast liberal arts upbringing, including a degree in Management from Yale University, Peggy Dolgenos moved to California and became a Geek. She received a Computer Science degree from UC Santa Cruz and, with her husband Chris Neklason, started Cruzio, one of the first Internet Service Providers in America, in 1989. Today, Peggy is Cruzio’s co-CEO. Her emphasis has always been providing cutting edge technology to non-technical people. In this pursuit she has not only helped make Cruzio the largest Internet Service Provider in Santa Cruz County, but has also hosted the radio show “GeekSpeak” on KUSP, taught classes at Cabrillo Community College, and written articles for tech magazines.

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Cruzio is Santa Cruz Count’s oldest and largest Internet Service Provider, and Dolgenos has been involved in almost every aspect of the business. “I did technical support with a baby on my lap,” she says. Cruzio prides itself on extraordinarily high quality Internet service, including Internet access, DSL, and Web hosting, at a reasonable price. “The service is so good because our employees care,” says Dolgenos, “and it’s my job as CEO to make sure we remain focused on technology services that benefit our community.”

Cruzio can be reached at 831 459-6301, or at www.cruzio.com.