Distinguished Alumni Award

Saylor Frase is the founder and president of Nuspire Corp., a technology firm that provides a full range of managed IT security services to fortune 500 companies. Saylor’s strong leadership gained Nuspire recognition on the list of North America’s “fastest-growing companies” by Inc. Magazine in 2009. In 2011, Frost & Sullivan named Nuspire “Entrepreneurial Company of the Year.”

Extensive work in creating technologies has set Saylor apart as a pioneer in managed services and earned him the Leader and Innovator Award from Lawrence Tech University in 2007, Crain’s Detroit “40 Under 40” in 2008, Automation Alley “Emerging Leader of the Year” for 2010, and he was recognized by the state of Michigan as a leader in the technology sector as part of the “Michigan Upper Hand” Economic Development Program in 2010.

Saylor is a board member and principal at Regsaw Developments and also sits on the board for EoTerra Services. In 2007, Saylor founded the Twilight Foundation to support and further social and humanitarian efforts in the community. Since, the Twilight Foundation has grown and been able to make a tremendous, positive impact in Michigan and the Detroit metro area.

Saylor studied information systems at Central Michigan University and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School in Boston, Mass. Saylor helped form and participated in several informal CMU alumni groups attending sporting events and contributing to athletics.