About Oso Grande – Your Local Datacenter
Oso Grande has deep roots in the New Mexico technology industry.
How Oso Grande Came To Be
The year is 1979, and New Mexico has a booming hard sciences industry with its internationally known Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. The State decided it needed an entity to foster technology growth, and New Mexico TechNet was born, created by former Governor Campbell and Senator Domenici to develop communications and provide access to public information in New Mexico. In the mid-1980s, TechNet was managing the State’s fiber optic network and internetworking with DARPA before the word “Internet” was widely known.
TechNet was successful at connecting governments, defense contractors, hospitals, and numerous other organizations. TechNet eventually outgrew its original mission and in 1993 “TechNet For Profit” was created to handle its commercial services. TFP continued on, and in 2000, saw the need for datacenter services, and began utilizing its existing facilities to meet that need – Oso Grande was born, and a name change in 2001 formalized it.
Today, Oso Grande Technologies successfully continues forward on New Mexico and TechNet’s original mission, bringing high value, accessible technology services to the Southwest region.
Oso Grande Team
Oso Grande is fortunate to have an incredible Board of Directors, each of whom brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the company. To learn more about each of our board members, please click below.
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Dennis Jontz - Chairman
Dennis started his career as an Assistant Attorney General of Iowa in 1973. He entered the Air Force as a JAG at Holloman Air Force Base in 1974 and remained in the Reserves serving the Air Force for 28 years. After leaving active duty in 1978, he moved to Albuquerque to practice law, accompanied by his wife Mary Ann. While in Albuquerque he established the firm of Jontz, Dawe, Gulley and Crown which in 2004 merged with the Lewis and Roca law firm in Phoenix and Tucson. Dennis continued practicing until 2022, and continues to serve on numerous boards.
Raminder Mann - Board Member
An early and vigorous proponent of Oso, Mann is the current CEO of Albuquerque-based Advanced Network Marketing (ANM). During his tenure at ANM, Mann has achieved 8X revenue growth, making the company one of the fasted growing IT services companies in the US. He brings more than 20 years of business and technology experience to his role on the Oso board with prior leadership positions at Fortune 100 companies, including AT&T and Cisco. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Wichita State University.
Dale Dekker - Board Member
Dale Dekker, is an original founder of Dekker/Perich/Sabatini (D/P/S), a multi-state architecture and design firm that started in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has extensive experience in architecture and planning projects that are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. Dekker has contributed to high-tech, one-of-a-kind research facilities for Sandia National Labs, award-winning school designs across the Southwest, and large-scale master plans, such as the UNM Master Plan Update. Dale serves on multiple boards, and is very active in the Albuquerque and New Mexico business communities.
Steve Mager - Board Member
Serving as Vice-Chair of the Oso board is Steven Mager, an astute businessman with decades-long ties to the US Southwest. In 1990, Mager and his father founded and later sold Dee’s Foodservice with reported annual sales approaching $75 million. In 2018, Mager established The Turning Point Group, LLC, a business consulting firm, which led the acquisition of Grayhawk Produce Sales and established Mager Realty for real estate development in Arizona. Mager holds degrees in business and political science from Arizona State University. He and his wife Lisa live in Scottsdale, AZ, where Mager enjoys piloting in his leisure.
Ralph Trigg - Board Member
A longtime member of the Oso board, Trigg and has spurred regional growth as owner of multiple Albuquerque businesses. Trigg is current owner of Trigg Oil LLC and Recovery Press LLC. Before selling in 2004, Trigg also founded and grew Automated Office Systems, a software development and computer services firm. Further, he provided IT leadership with the State of NM and received the Exceptional Civilian Service Medal from the federal Defense Nuclear Agency for breakthrough software development. Trigg attended the University of Colorado and New Mexico and earned his master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Albuquerque.
Shirley Scott - Board Member
Oso Grande found a truly remarkable addition to its board in Shirley Scott. Now retired, Scott spent 39 years in the banking industry. Her expertise spans bank administration, commercial lending, branch management and administration, direct and indirect consumer lending, and loan recovery. In her career, Scott served in high-ranking leadership roles including Executive Vice President and COO of Albuquerque-based Charter Bank and Director of Credit Operations with Allegiance Healthcare Corporation, among others. Scott received her BBA and MBA from the University of New Mexico and graduated with honors from the Pacific Coast School of Banking.
Cliff Blaugrund - Board Member
As an Economics major at the University of Colorado, Cliff Blaugrund laid the foundation for his life’s work of identifying opportunity and growing strong businesses. Blaugrund went on to earn his law degree from the University of New Mexico. Both achievements served him well as he headed up a division of the family business, American Furniture of Albuquerque. By 1998 he was investing in startup companies and became one of the original members of New Mexico Angels, Inc. As an independent venture capital and private equity professional, Blaugrund is a valued member of the board in its work to strengthen and grow Oso Grande for the future.
Randal Kohutek - CEO
Mr. Kohutek began his career in 2000, holding numerous technical and executive positions across the ISP, MSP, and datacenter sectors. Randal has maintained a special focus on datacenters for several years, and successfully grew a single site business into a multi-region company with 5 facilities in a few short years. Mr. Kohutek has contributed to multiple open source projects, and continues to serve on multiple boards in Colorado.
Nick Galarza - Director of Sales & Business Development
Mr. Galarza joined the Oso Grande team after many years of proven success as a strategic thinker in business development and revenue generation. For eight years, he distinguished himself at Comcast where he demonstrated business acumen and visionary leadership and earned recognition for top sales and for managing large accounts, projects, and non-profits. Galarza earned his BA in Sociology and Psychology at the University of New Mexico, later receiving his MBA with an emphasis in Finance at Cal University.
Chris Rierson
Oso Grande benefits from the talents of Chris Rierson each day. An avid learner, Rierson joined the Oso Grande team in 2024, after many years working in the HVAC and building management industries. At Oso, Chris’ primary responsibility is to maintain our data centers and property. When is not working in the facility or helping out customers, Chris is an avid Washington Commanders fan and enjoys spending time with his family. Detail-oriented and service-focused, Chris is a valued member of the Oso team.
