Gyles
Uhlenhopp

Overlooked does not mean unworkable.

Rural America can have the ingredients digital infrastructure needs: available power, industrial land, and connectivity. Gyles’s role is to help turn those conditions into an investment case that can support a real project.

At PathOne, he focuses on capital relationships and the commercial work behind development. That means connecting the opportunity to its costs, dependencies, and next milestones, so investors can understand what their capital is helping accomplish.

Make the opportunity investable.

Gyles spent part of his career as a banker in the equipment finance industry. His experience also includes marketing and program development at KLC Financial, helping businesses use financing programs to sell equipment. The practical question was how to make a purchase possible, not simply how to make it sound attractive.

At PathOne, the scale and asset are different. The discipline carries forward: understand the need, identify the constraints, and bring the right financial relationships to the work. PathOne’s phased model, sized to each site, gives that effort a concrete starting point.

The community belongs in the equation.

Gyles’s responsibility extends to how PathOne invests locally. The company’s stated requirement is a net positive community impact through local taxes, jobs, and long-term community support. These are part of the development case from the beginning.

For residents, that begins with practical conversations about power, water, noise, and what the project will contribute. For PathOne, it means listening early and tying answers to the proposed facility. A community deserves a clear picture of what is being considered.

Different industries. A consistent instinct.

Before PathOne, Gyles built experience across finance, technology, and commercial strategy. His work at Perrill included strategy, innovation, and marketing. At Black Hills IP, a subsidiary of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, a global intellectual property law firm, he served as Vice President of Global Marketing. He also led marketing for CreditPop, a financial technology business focused on rent-payment credit building.

He served as an on-air personality on an official Minnesota Vikings podcast, adding a public-facing chapter to a career spanning finance, technology, and communications.

Across those roles, the recurring work has been making complex ideas understandable and building connections with different audiences. That experience now informs how he connects capital partners, project teams, and communities around PathOne’s development approach.

Gyles holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from North Central University and has contributed through the Forbes Communications Council. His broader work and forthcoming book, Build Weird, Sell Smart, explore overlooked opportunities and unconventional paths to market.