# Dane Jasper

> Dane Jasper co-founded Sonic with Scott Doty in 1994 after working on the Santa Rosa Junior College network. The former CEO and current board member helped guide its evolution from dial-up access to fiber construction and became a public advocate for customer privacy, net neutrality and broadband competition.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Board Member at Sonic
- **Organizations:** Sonic, Santa Rosa Junior College, COMPTEL (board service reported in 2015), Caltel (board service reported in 2015), FISPA (board service reported in 2015), CISPA (board service reported in 2015)
- **Education:** Santa Rosa Junior College
- **Known for:** Co-founded an independent ISP that evolved through dial-up, DSL, carrier operations and fiber construction., Led Sonic when it received all six stars in EFF’s 2013 privacy report., Advocated publicly for net neutrality and alternatives to limited broadband competition.

## Career timeline

- **1994** — Co-founded Sonoma Interconnect, later Sonic, with Scott Doty after working on the junior college network.
- **2006** — Sonic became a competitive local exchange carrier.
- **2011** — Publicly explained Sonic’s two-week IP allocation log retention policy; Sonic challenged a government account-information order.
- **2012** — Sonic dates its development into a fiber construction company to this year.
- **2013** — Sonic earned six of six stars in EFF’s Who Has Your Back? report.
- **2014** — Sonic.net rebranded as Sonic after acquiring Sonic.com.
- **2017** — Published an open letter thanking employees responding to North Bay fires.
- **2021** — Sonic introduced fiber service speeds up to 10 gigabits.
- **2024** — Wrote the farewell to Sonic’s Linux shell service. The supplied Sonic company page dates Nathan Patrick’s succession as CEO to 2024.

## Achievements

- Co-founded an independent ISP that evolved through dial-up, DSL, carrier operations and fiber construction.
- Led Sonic when it received all six stars in EFF’s 2013 privacy report.
- Advocated publicly for net neutrality and alternatives to limited broadband competition.
- Helped guide Sonic into offering fiber speeds up to 10 gigabits in 2021.

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — Published a farewell to Sonic’s Linux shell platform ahead of its June 30 shutdown.
- **2026-03** — A public-records aggregator updated from California filings lists Nathan Patrick as Sonic.net LLC’s CEO and Jasper as a manager, consistent with Jasper’s former-CEO status.

## Links

- Website: https://corp.sonic.net/ceo/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danejasper
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/dane

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Last updated: 2026-10-12