User:Tadion

Toby Alan Dion was born in Colchester, Vermont in 1975.

Dion grew up with the typical life experiences. His parents owned Apollo Limousine Service, at one time owning 12 limousines. It was during these early experiences that Dion was bit with the entrepreneur bug.

During high school, Dion became active in the politics of the school, town, and county. He started working for Channel 17, where he covered several of the local town governments meetings.

While at Channel 17, he broadcast the first broadcast a live high school sporting event on a cable system. Under Dion's leadership the annual Colchester Town Meeting was broadcast on the same cable system.

At the age of 18 he ran for the Board of Education in the school district that he was still a student in, because of the lack of concern for the students the board then had. To quote Dion, "The board is giving the administrators double digit raises, the teachers are getting whole percentage raises, but they are cutting the electives."

Dion took 1/3 of the vote the first time he ran, loosing by 2 percent to a well educated person that had run a multimillion dollar company.

Dion tried his hand again, running for the board of education in 1994. That year he took 1/3 of the vote again, loosing by the same margin to a household name.

In 1997, Dion moved to Phoenix, Arizona where he started the company Phoenix Geeks, LLC. Phoenix Geeks is an onsite technology consulting firm serving Maricopa County, Arizona.

In 2008 Dion with a business partner purchased the Vermont Sandwich Company in Scottsdale, Arizona. The sandwich shop was a natural purchase for Dion, as it reminded him of his hometown.