Meet The Team
These are the people who answer the phone, work the tickets, plan the projects, pull the cable, and show up onsite when you need someone standing next to the problem. Two offices, Clarksville and Nashville, one team across Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. Flip a card to see who you would be working with.
Clarksville
HEADQUARTERS
Bill Petersen
Bill has more than twenty years of professional IT experience and founded Copperband in 2016. He consulted for small businesses at a Clarksville technology firm and spent four years as an IT administrator for a Kentucky city government, designing and implementing its virtual server infrastructure, running technology for fire, EMS, and public works, and standing up the technology in two new municipal buildings. At Copperband he leads the business and works with clients on strategy.
Liz Grant
Liz was Copperband’s first hire outside the owners and has seven years of professional IT experience, all of them at Copperband running its operations. Her strengths are VoIP, help desk work, and weird accounting software, working most closely with accountants, healthcare practices, and municipalities. She holds CompTIA A+ and an AAS in information technology. At Copperband she keeps the place and the clients running.
Isaac Webb
Isaac has 14 years of professional IT experience, at Copperband since 2019. He came up through city government IT and now carries one of Copperband’s client books, with deep time in local government and public safety: CJIS compliance, dispatch and radio system integrations for fire and emergency agencies, camera and phone projects, and new client onboarding. When a problem digs in, Isaac is the one standing in front of it.
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Samantha Vaughan Fry
Samantha has more than ten years of professional experience in marketing, photography, and journalism. Before Copperband she was a photojournalist for a county newspaper and a Clarksville magazine, handled marketing and social media for a Tennessee tourism company, and ran her own photography business for over a decade. She holds a photojournalism degree. At Copperband she has run the company’s marketing since 2024.
Lisa Raupers
Lisa has more than twenty years of professional IT experience, with six of them at Copperband. Before that she spent nearly twelve years administering student information and learning management systems for a college, supported dialysis clinics nationwide on a healthcare help desk, and handled IT support for roughly 500 users on a Navy base. She holds a Bachelor of Science in business and information systems. At Copperband she works remote and onsite client support.
Luis de Sa Nogueira
Luis has seven years of professional IT experience, with strengths in networking, Microsoft 365, cloud, backup, and cybersecurity. Before Copperband he supported clients at a Nashville MSP, ran IT for a logistics company, and handled field IT for a large manufacturer. He holds CompTIA A+, Datto, Proofpoint, and Breach Secure Now certifications, and studied IT at a Florida technical college. At Copperband he manages and troubleshoots client technology and networks.
Clay Golden
Clay has more than six years of professional IT experience, more than four of them at Copperband, working remote and onsite support and project work across client environments. He also carries the team’s door access and audio video work: conference rooms, building wide speaker and paging systems, displays and signage, and camera systems. He owns his clients’ day to day, setting expectations and keeping them.
Cole Petersen
Cole started at Copperband at the ground floor and has spent more than a year building from it: cabling and installs, cameras and door access, and the bench work of prepping and repairing client equipment. He is now transitioning onto the help desk as a Tier 1 technician.
Andrew Shaw
Andrew’s professional IT experience runs through enterprise support, covering Windows administration, Apple and Mac support, and project implementation, including escalation work on the issues Tier 1 and Tier 2 support could not resolve. His background spans insurance, hospitality, laboratory, sports, and professional services environments. He spent three years studying philosophy and computer science at Sam Houston State University. At Copperband he provides remote and onsite support when a client needs help now.
Jon Beckius
Jon has been running cable for Copperband for more than five years, longer than anyone else on the install side. Terminations, speaker systems, cameras, network drops: if it goes through a wall or a ceiling at a client site, Jon has likely pulled it, across new construction and retrofits alike.
Tristen Clark
Tristen came up through construction and has spent a year and a half at Copperband terminating and installing network cabling, speaker systems, and cameras across client sites. He supports the physical layer everything else runs on: the cable, the closet, and the devices at the end of it.
Nashville
TENNESSEE
Chris McQuistion
Chris has more than 30 years of professional IT experience, with deep expertise in infrastructure, networking, Microsoft environments, and cybersecurity. More than two decades of that were spent as an IT director for multiple schools, building and running their technology. As Copperband’s CTO and an owner, he leads technical strategy, complex projects, and escalation support for the technicians.
Connar Bielinski
Connar spent nearly a decade in the U.S. Army, leaving as a senior intelligence sergeant, with a deployment to Afghanistan along the way. He then earned a computer networking and information security degree at Austin Peay State University, interning in the university’s IT security office, and joined Copperband in 2019, making him one of the longest tenured technicians on the team. At Copperband he handles remote support across the client base.
Jason Carrozza
Jason has more than five years of professional IT experience, nearly all of them as a Copperband technician, with earlier desktop support contract work in manufacturing environments. He earned CompTIA A+ and Security+ and holds a bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University. At Copperband he supports clients remote and onsite.
Myles Clements
Myles has nearly ten years of professional IT experience that began in the U.S. Army, where he maintained military intelligence systems and networks. Since then he has run help desk operations for a city government, administered systems for a regional hospital, and worked Tier 2 support at a Nashville MSP. He earned CompTIA Security+ in the Army. At Copperband he is the team’s automation specialist, with four automation certifications since joining.
Grant Klitzke
Grant has five years of professional IT experience, all of it in managed services at two MSPs, where he administered servers and networks for more than 750 end users and led a ransomware recovery that restored a client’s operations without paying the ransom. He holds Datto certifications in RMM and networking and a cybersecurity certificate from Arizona State University. At Copperband he works as a network and systems administrator in school environments.
Sierra Stewart
Sierra holds a Tennessee Tech computer science degree with a cybersecurity concentration and cyber law minor. Before Copperband she interned with a Department of Energy contractor in Oak Ridge, running phishing simulations and leading incident response exercises, built tools for the university’s cybersecurity research center, and handled K-12 systems administration. She is CompTIA Security+ certified. At Copperband she works the help desk, keeping clients’ day to day operations moving.