John Pugh

John got his feet wet in technology by designing a large automated configuration center for IBM Eduquest in the mid-90’s after a early career as a zookeeper. After building out one of Novell’s largest networks for a insurance company in State Farm, he fled the icy midwest winters back to Florida where he helped Novell’s largest customers incorporate technology into their business. In the infancy of wireless networking, John helped build the largest 802.11 based network at Brainshare in 1998 and went on to create a company providing wireless infrastructure to cafe’s, apartments, and homes in the Utah valley area. John fled the cold again to Florida where he founded Banal Technologies, LLC to help small and mid-size companies incorporate open source software into their everyday business. In addition to being an avid pilot and gadget connoisseur, John is on the board of directors for Quest For Stars a 501(c)(3) organization aimed at introducing STEM technology to students through the use of low cost balloons for research and exploration to the edge of space.