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Tomas Gorny is a Polish American tech entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Nextiva and the founder of Nextiva, IPOWER, Internet Communications, Site Lock, and United Web.

Biography
Gory was born in Zabrze, Poland to working class parents in 1975. They purchased him an Atari when he was 12. He learned to program the Atari to make games. His family moved to Germany when he was 14 where he attended business school. He started a PC distribution business when he was 17. At the age of 20, he immigrated to the United States.

In the United States, he worked as a part-time valet boy and carpet cleaner to finance himself while he was working at Internet Communications in Hollywood, California. At the age of 22, the company was acquired by Interliant and Gorny became a millionaire.

Shortly after selling Internet Communications, the Dot-com bubble and 9/11 occurred, leaving Gorny with only a car and $10,000.

He started IPOWER, a web hosting company, in 2001 with capital from his credit card. In 2007, IPOWER was merged with Endurance International. The company was sold to Warburg PIncus and Goldman Sachs in 2011 for close to $1 billion. The company is now apart of Endurance International Group, a publicly traded company.

After the sale of IPOWER, he formed Nextiva, a cloud VOIP service, United Web, a startup incubator, and Site Lock, a web-security company.

Honours, decorations, awards, and distinctions
In 2014, Tomas Gorny won the Arizona Governor's Business Leader of the Year award.