Dave Glissmeyer is a local Utah native, born in SLC to Roy and Ann Glissmeyer in 1952. Dave currently has a dual residence in Salt Lake City and St. George, UT. (Yes, he’s a golf nut and you can’t play golf in the snow during the winter at the Salt Lake Country Club!).

Dave and his lovely wife Tiffany share a blessed life with their darling “dogter” Gracie (the yorkie pup), Thurston the love bird, Cleo the singing budgie and five salt water fish named, Bunny, Angel, Tiger, Spot, Clowny, Purplehead and their cleaner shrimp named Boots.

Tiff and Dave like to travel a bit but have become more homebound as of late in caring for all of their beloved animal friends.

Dave’s son Frank Glissmeyer, from a previous marriage, lives in North Salt Lake and is working hard to begin a career in law enforcement.

Dave attended school locally and enjoyed a successful career in the auto industry prior to joining Intermountain Telephone in 1981.

In 1984, seeing an opportunity to open the Utah market for an emerging communications platform maker, Inter-Tel, Dave started ProTel NetWorks with $3000.00 borrowed off a credit card. Within 4 years ProTel had cracked Inter-Tel's prestigious Top Ten Dealer Award program by implementing an aggressive marketing program with it’s primary focus of delivering to the customer “more than what they paid for.”

Under Dave’s guidance ProTel has consistently been one of a handful of dealers who have placed millions of dollars worth of solutions-based systems year in and year out for Inter-Tel. ProTel is still successful, providing good paying jobs right here in Utah and has not required a government bailout.

The next project on the horizon is running for the U.S. Congress in Utah's 2nd Congressional District in the year 2010.  I will run as an independent candidate, tackle the issues one by one, take no money from PAC's (political action committees), special interests, or corporations.  My campaign will be funded entirely by donations from individuals to ensure that the voters who elected me get the representation they voted for.