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One-to-One Partner Profile

David Tosi

Owner & Founder · Spoke Coworking

Coworking space owner with 30 years in business — a former software engineer and tech founder who built and successfully exited his first company.

  • Givers Gain Chapter
  • Tucson, AZ
  • 30 years in business
  • Two Tucson locations
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4.3 · Biography Sheet

Get to know David

Business

Business name
Spoke Coworking
Profession
Owner / Founder, Coworking Space
Locations
6700 E Speedway Blvd
5151 E Broadway Blvd, Suite 1700
Years in the business
30
Chapter
Givers Gain — Tucson, AZ

Family & Home

Spouse
Married
Children
Two grown children — one works with me at Spoke Coworking, the other is studying abroad
Pets
One cat — technically my son's.
City of residence
Tucson, AZ
How long?
30 years

Personal

Hobbies
Spending time with my family, scaling businesses, exploring new tech gadgets and trends, and international travel.
Activities & interests
International travel; cooking and food; growing businesses.

Burning desire

Travel to every country (that I can).

No one here knows

I owned a cave in Morocco.

The key to my success

Don't be afraid to iterate and pivot.

Career Path

From fax servers to flex space

Thirty years of Tucson tech, one through-line: build the software, then build the business around it. Or, as my LinkedIn has put it for years, “software entrepreneur with dreams of global conquest.”

  1. 1995 – 2004

    RightFax (Captaris)

    Senior Software Engineer

    Nine years deep in C++, COM and Exchange, writing the code inside RightFax — the enterprise fax server that companies around the world quietly trusted with their most important documents. It taught me the first rule of business software: it has to just work.

  2. 2004 – 2007

    3M

    Senior Software Engineer → Software Architect

    Took my craft to one of the world's great innovation companies and moved up from senior engineer to software architect — learning how products get designed, shipped and supported at serious scale.

  3. 2007 – 2025

    Inphonite

    Owner & CTO

    The founder leap. Nearly eighteen years building voice and messaging technology — including automated appointment reminders that kept businesses' calendars full and their no-shows down — before a successful exit.

  4. 2021 – Now

    Spoke Coworking

    Current

    Owner, CEO & Tech Geek

    Bet big on Tucson's independent professionals and hybrid teams: two locations, private offices, meeting rooms and a community of businesses and freelancers who'd rather not work from the kitchen table. Yes, “Tech Geek” is part of the official title.

  5. Now

    Hubgnome

    New

    Space management platform

    Where the two careers meet. Running coworking spaces showed me exactly what the software was missing, so I'm building it: a new platform for running flexible workspaces — bookings, members, websites and newsletters in one place. This very page runs on it.

4.4 · GAINS Exchange

Goals, Accomplishments, Interests, Networks, Skills

Where we might overlap, and what I can open up for you.

Goals

Business: Reach full occupancy at Spoke Coworking and build the most vibrant, collaborative hub for remote workers and entrepreneurs in Tucson.

BNI: Bring practical tools to the BNI community that help members grow their businesses — and take what BNI does best back to Spoke, connecting our own member community more deeply.

Personal: Travel to every country in the world.

Accomplishments

  • Built Inphonite from the ground up and led its technology for nearly 18 years — all the way to a successful exit.
  • Opened Spoke Coworking in 2021 and grew it to two Tucson locations.
  • Created Hubgnome, a space management platform shaped by running real coworking spaces — it powers this very site.
  • Promoted from senior engineer to software architect at 3M.
  • Spent nine years engineering RightFax, enterprise software trusted by businesses worldwide.
  • Taught working adults modern tech skills at the University of Arizona's Extended University.
  • Went from engineer to architect to founder to CEO — proof that iterating and pivoting beats standing still.

Interests

  • International travel and cultural exploration
  • Exploring and testing new tech gadgets and trends
  • Scaling businesses and talking about business strategy
  • Spending quality downtime with my family

Networks

  • Givers Gain chapter — Tucson, AZ
  • Spoke Coworking's internal network of businesses and freelancers
  • Tucson Chamber of Commerce
  • Startup Tucson

Skills

  • Turning a messy, real-world problem into software that just works
  • Spotting the gap in a market — and building the thing that fills it
  • Translating fluently between tech-speak and business-speak
  • Knowing when to iterate, and when it's time to pivot
  • Making complex technology make sense to anyone
  • Bringing the right people together and building community around them

4.5 · Contact Sphere Planning

Who naturally refers me business

The professions whose clients become my members — usually the moment someone forms a company, hires in Tucson, or outgrows a spare bedroom.

My contact sphere

  1. CPA / Accountant
  2. Business / Commercial Attorney
  3. PEO / HR Outsourcing
  4. Commercial Real Estate Agent
  5. Financial Advisor
  6. Mortgage Broker / Lender
  7. Property & Casualty Insurance Agent
  8. Residential Real Estate Agent
  9. Web Designer / IT Consultant
  10. Marketing & Advertising Consultant

4.6 · Previous 10 Customers

What a great referral looks like

My last ten. The pattern matters more than the list — it's how you'll spot the next one.

  1. Corporate workplace manager seeking a Tucson office for a remote employee
  2. HR leader needing furnished workspace for visiting or seasonal staff
  3. Regional operations executive needing a local base for a small hybrid team
  4. Established home-service owner needing office space for the administrative team
  5. Growing tech founder wanting flexible offices without a long lease or build-out
  6. Trade or design company owner needing a client-ready office and meeting rooms
  7. Established therapist needing a quiet, private office several days each week
  8. Counselor or coach moving beyond telehealth into recurring in-person appointments
  9. Remote professional whose employer will pay for a productive local workspace
  10. Home-based business owner wanting address privacy and secure mail handling

Notes on customers

Our best customers are established, revenue-producing professionals and business leaders who value professionalism, privacy, reliability and flexibility.

They usually contact Spoke when they hire someone in Tucson, outgrow a home office, begin meeting clients in person, need a professional business address, or want to avoid a conventional long-term lease.

Notes on referrals — listen for

  • “My employee in Tucson needs somewhere to work.”
  • “I can't keep meeting clients at home.”
  • “I don't want my home address online.”
  • “Our team needs space a few days a week.”
  • “We need an office, but we aren't ready for a long lease.”

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