Has persistent fear of headlines trumpeting his stellar skills rejected numerous Don-admiring headlines

To say Don Smithmier is creative with numbers would leave you in an erroneously Bernie Madoff place. D. Smithmier is a stirred, not shaken, cool cocktail of calculations and creativity. Mr. S. keeps us on-task, on-budget and all of our work on-point. D.S. believes in the unassailable reliability of smart scrutiny and the high-beam examination of all things we create, build and release to the world. Do not get me wrong ("me" being the ghostwriter of this bio), Don Smithmier is a wildly creative fella. Don helped light the fuse under Capella Education Company, which broke out with some of the web's first successful online marketing and development. Don has been recognized as a Star Among Stars for his business acumen and Don is a freakishly fine musician - once again we witness the melding of left and right hemispheres to create this planet we call, "Don."