Company Profile

Plexus is an example of how a home based business can become a successful established company through hard work, discipline, and tenacity. The owners, Stephanie and Buck Sharp, started Plexus in 1997, after two years of grueling commutes back and forth to Atlanta each day.

Humble Beginnings

Back in 1997, not a single Internet based business was located in the Athens area. A UGA student studying accounting, Stephanie worked part time as the Webmaster for Athens Technical College (then Athens Technical Institute) for a little over a year while finishing her degree. Getting a taste for the Web and realizing crunching numbers might not be her ideal career path, Stephanie realized Web development had become her passion. There were no opportunities in Athens, Georgia at the time so she was lured to a position with the Georgia Division of Public Health as their Webmaster. But the 90-minute commute both ways was unbearable after two years. Both Stephanie and Buck left their posts at GDPH in the same month and Plexus was born.

In the beginning, Plexus operated out of a historic home built in the early 1900's on Main Street in Watkinsville, Georgia. The house is now home to an interior design firm. Stephanie and Buck operated the business out of that house from 1997 to 2000 when they bought a house and moved to Athens in the little area known as Normaltown. They operated the business out of that house until 2003.

Moving on Up

In 2003 Plexus moved into their first commercial office at 1160 S. Milledge Avenue in Five Points. They started out with about 700 square feet and four employees and expanded their staff and their space in that office over the next two and a half years. By December 2006, they had outgrown the space and moved to the Terraces on Timothy, where they resided until May of 2008.

In our own digs

Plexus had always rented office space but in late 2007 while they were located in the Terraces building, the opportunity to buy the only remaining condominium unit left in the Leathers Building presented itself. Plexus bought the unit in 2007 and converted an 800 square foot, one-room space into a multi-level, multi-office studio that was built specifically for their work flow. Designed in part by the Plexus crew with help from architects, designers and contractors, Plexus moved into their current office at 675 Pulaski Street in May of 2008.

The new, permanent Plexus space offers clients the opportunity to brainstorm, learn and train in the conference room that features a large flat screen television perfect for collaboration. The upstairs loft houses the development and design team with administrative offices, conference room, server room, bathrooms and kitchen on the ground level.