Daniel DiSano is an accomplished business, technology and growth executive with a track record in building successful companies. He has been President and CEO of Axispoint, a leading technology consulting and software development company, since June 2002.
Under Mr. DiSano’s leadership, Axispoint has experienced 22 times organic growth and has rapidly become the trusted technology partner to some of the world’s most recognizable brands During his tenure, he has increased revenue and profitability, recruited a strong leadership team, and reorganized the corporate structure to focus on long term growth.
As CEO of PKA Technologies, Felise Katz is responsible for the day-to-day operations and is the driving force in developing the strategic direction of the business. She has been honored by CRN magazine for the last four consecutive years as a “Woman of the Channel”, an annual list compiled of female executives for their accomplishments and achievements in the technology industry. Recently, PKA was included in CIO Review magazine’s recent list of Top 20 most promising Government IT Solution Providers for 2014. Felise was raised in New York City and attended Lehman College in the City University of New York and Babson as well as post graduate study at New York University. Felise has attended a number of executive leadership training courses and is always eager to learn more. Mentorship is important to Felise both for her personal growth and more importantly in offering advice and direction to other businesswomen and college students, specifically those interested in strategic sales and management careers. A former competitive dancer and swimmer she now enjoys spending her free time cooking and entertaining. Felise’s proudest accomplishment is raising three great kids and having an incredible husband as a business partner.
Manak Ahluwalia founded Aqueduct Technologies Inc. in 2011. He successfully built one of the top service providers in North America, recognized for its deep technical competencies, commitment to culture, and customer satisfaction. In five years under Ahluwalia's leadership, Aqueduct Technologies ranks in the top 500 largest solutions provider by revenue, highest level of technical accreditations in the industry, #1 ranked in customer satisfaction, and #1 ranking as a best place to work. Aqueduct continues to grow at a remarkable pace while maintaining its commitment to customer and employee success.
Ron Dupler assumed the role of President and CEO of GreenPages in 2004 with a charter to drive and transform the organization’s technology delivery and solutions model. During his tenure, Ron has worked collaboratively with GreenPages’ management and employees, customers, and strategic technology partners to transform the company from a product-centric, value-added reseller to a leading systems integrator and cloud services firm that is now widely regarded as one of the top virtualization and cloud computing thought leaders in the country.
Under Ron’s leadership, GreenPages has received numerous awards and recognition, including CRN’s Solution Provider 500 Company of the Year, Tech Elite 250, Virtualization Tec
Haley’s invaluable 20-year career as a business and commercial litigation attorney with a focus on driving public sector initiatives and key lobbying efforts in support of education and sustainable growth across the southern US drive the success of Edge Solutions. In addition to her experience as a law associate at several top Texas law firms, Haley has committed years of service to key public service positions, including chief lobbyist for the Georgia PTA, Congressman Tom Price’s Citizen Advisory Board, the Fulton County Code Enforcement Board, and other education advocacy and advisory boards. Haley was named as the North Fulton Small Business Person of the Year in 2011, CRN’s Top 100 Women of the Channel in 2011 through 2014, and a finalist for Women in Technology’s Woman of the Year in 2011.
Richard Baldwin is CSO/CIO and founder of NTH Generation. He is responsible for creating and executing strategic initiatives within the company. He began his career in the technology industry in 1968 programming business applications for mainframe computers. Rich started and successfully managed three companies, including NTH Generation Computing, founded with Jan Baldwin in 1990. Rich has held a variety of positions within NTH including the position of CEO until February of 2011.
Rich's vision, fueled by his commitment to cutting edge technology, client education, technical excellence, service, and support, was the key to taking NTH from a one-man start-up to a $50 million dollar enterprise.
Kelly Ireland is the CEO of CB Technologies Inc. Kelly has been striving to serve customers with excellence since entering the Reseller industry in 1984. Kelly is a catalyst, change agent, mentor and enthusiast. Spending her time driving strategic growth initiatives and most importantly, providing CB Technologies' employees with an outstanding work environment.
George Barkley is Managing Partner at Sovereign Systems, which drives delivery of IT as a Service by combining best-of-breed solutions with consulting, architecture, implementation, and managed services expertise. One of the fastest-growing IT solution providers and cloud services firms in the country, Sovereign’s approach accelerates the transition to cloud computing while preserving existing investments and improving security and control. Barkley formerly held positions with EMC, IBM and The Coca-Cola Company. He holds degrees from Emory University - Goizueta Business School and the University of Georgia - Terry College of Business.
VeriStor President and CEO Ashby Lincoln is a data storage veteran with over 25 years of experience. Prior to leading VeriStor, Lincoln served as Vice President of Sales for the Eastern Region of the US for Nexsan Technologies. While at Nexsan, he helped create and implement the company’s Channel and OEM Target Programs. Lincoln was also the founding Vice President of Sales at the storage service provider WorldStor, where he helped raise nearly $40M in venture capital, pioneered sales strategies, and managed the business development group. He also initiated and managed relationships with major platform vendors, as he does at VeriStor today.
Lincoln also held sales management positions at disk array vendor Storage Dimensions (acquired by Artecon to become Dot Hill Systems), where he managed a US sales staff in eight major markets. Prior to joining Storage Dimensions, Lincoln served in sales and service management at EMC.
Bob joined Presidio in February of 2012, following the acquisition of his company, BlueWater Communications Group, LLC. Bob has led numerous technology service organizations, including Dimension Data North America and Integrated Systems Group. He has received recognitions such as Executive of the Year by VARBusiness and Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst &Young. Bob resides in Long Island, NY.
Tom Colleary, President, of 2016 CRN Triple Crown winner, F3 Technology Partners, has 30 years of extensive channel experience in developing and growing information technology solution providers. His industry insight and vision along with the understanding of the importance of the relationship between the manufacturer, the solution provider and the end user has been instrumental in positioning F3 as a market leader as they transform their business model to leverage the new 3rd platform computing model. Prior to joining F3 Technology Partners, Tom held executive management roles for Avnet, Inc. and Arrow Electronics, where he was responsible for all aspects of their Oracle distribution business in North America. Throughout his career, Tom has consistently grown reseller businesses and profits and has a keen insight on what drives two tier distribution channel success. Throughout his career, Tom has been known for developing long term growth strategy and strategic partnerships while driving profitability and productivity in his companies. In 2011, Tom was recognized as a Channel Chief by CRN Magazine.
Founded in 1981 by Harry Zarek, Compugen has risen to become the number one Canadian Solution Provider with revenue close to $450M. The company works with over 2,000 mid- to-large-sized Canadian organizations providing technology infrastructure solutions based upon hardware and software from leading global IT vendors. Harry holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto. He is an active investor and member of the Board of Directors of a number of technology companies. Harry sat on the Board of RuggedCom Inc., which had its IPO in 2007. Rugged Com was acquired by Siemens in 2012.
As Founder & Co-CEO of BCM One, John Cunningham oversees strategic planning and initiatives, business development, channel sales, supplier management, overall revenue growth and financial performance. An active industry professional, Cunningham serves and has served on various advisory boards including Verizon, CenturyLink, Level 3, ShoreTel, Lightower, West IP, Internap and the BoB Conference to name a few. Cunningham is a two-time finalist for Cloud Partner’s “Telecom Executive of the Year Award”.
Prior to launching BCM One, John was a sales and branch manager throughout the Northeast Corridor for Centex Telemanagement, one of the first companies to manage local and long distance telephone services for businesses.
Over the course of a 25-year career characterized by leadership, entrepreneurialism and a rare vision for the future of the technology landscape, Cunningham has founded and piloted three highly successful companies which all rolled up into what is now BCM One.
Mike Thompson is a seasoned IT executive and business owner with over 20 years as an entrepreneur, business leader and strategist. He is passionate about building effective teams and partnerships with a keen focus on value-driven technology solutions for enterprise and Fortune 500 customers. Thompson currently serves as the CEO of Groupware Technology, a Silicon Valley-based data center solution provider. As CEO, Thompson provides the leadership and strategy to propel company-wide success. His decade of leadership at Groupware has led to profitable growth, from $2M to over $300M in revenue, and has earned recognition from Inc. Magazine, CRN, Silicon Valley Business Journal and many other business and industry publications.
Thompson is motivated by the desire to invest in people and provide opportunities for their personal growth, is adept at building strategic relationships to facilitate technology solutions and foster opportunities for customers and employees. Consistently recognized for strong values, a high level of integrity and thoughtful leadership, he takes a disciplined approach to strategic planning and performance optimization to achieve the best possible results.
Vince DeLuca is responsible for all aspects of Logicalis US. He joined Logicalis in 2010 as the Chief Operating Officer. A decisive leader with established expertise designing and optimizing technology to drive business performance, Vince has held senior roles in various disciplines with Fortune 100 and entrepreneurial firms. Prior to Logicalis, Vince served as Senior Vice President for Wipro with responsibility for Infrastructure Practice Service Delivery and Client Engagement. He joined Wipro in 2004 when Wipro acquired Infocrossing where he was a key executive. Vince guided Infocrossing through multiple acquisitions and organic growth initiatives.
Bill Barry is CompuCom’s Senior Vice President, Enterprise Sales, a position that bears responsibility for leading CompuCom’s sales, supply chain management and customer service functions throughout North America. Bill returned to CompuCom in 2005 with the objective of driving growth in the company's product and software business and leading the Enterprise Accounts team. He was previously with CompuCom from 1986 through 1998, serving in a number of executive sales management roles, and ultimately serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Between his two periods of service with CompuCom, he held senior positions at Docucorp and BancTec Systems.
Antonio Neri is the President of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and is responsible for the development and delivery of enterprise technology solutions and services that make Hybrid IT simple and power the Intelligent Edge.
During his nearly 23 years at the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Antonio has held numerous leadership positions. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of HPE’s Enterprise Group, which included the company’s Server, Networking, Storage and Technology Services business units. Prior to HPE’s separation from HP, Antonio ran HP’s Server and Networking business, where he was responsible for bringing new innovations to market and the execution of the go-to-market strategy. Before that, Antonio led HP’s Technology Services business providing technology support and consulting services for HP’s products and solutions. Antonio spent the earlier part of his career in various engineering and leadership roles in HP’s Printing and Personal Systems business units.
Antonio has led the strategy, development and introduction of many breakthrough innovations at HP and HPE, including: HPE Apollo, the industry leading high performance compute platform; HPE Superdome X, the world’s most scalable and modular in-memory computing platform; HPE Synergy, the world’s first composable infrastructure platform; HPE Cloudline, HPE’s server portfolio designed for service providers who need fast deployment, flexible operation, and low total cost of ownership; and, HPE Moonshot, the first software-defined compute platform. He was also responsible for HPE’s acquisitions and integrations of Aruba Networks, SGI, SimpliVity, Niara, Rasa Networks, Nimble Storage, Cloud Cruiser and Cloud Technology Partners.
Ken Lamneck doesn’t believe in settling for the present. He is fascinated with the future and technology, and the way each inspires the other. This interest and vision have driven Lamneck from the West Point Military Academy to Insight, where he leads the company as CEO. After five years in the U.S. Army, Lamneck began his civilian career as an IBM engineer. But he found that sales and marketing better suited his competitive spirit and the servant leadership principles he learned while in uniform.
Lamneck honed his technical knowledge and people skills while rising through the ranks at Arrow Electronics. As president of Arrow’s industrial computer products business, he was drawn to the rapid pace of innovation in the emerging IT industry. He moved to Tech Data, where he directed its growth and operations across the U.S., Canada and Latin America.
In 2010, Lamneck joined Insight. His approachable, hands-on leadership style can be seen in Insight’s corridors every day, as he motivates teammates and aligns their efforts with Insight's strategy to help clients manage their business today and transform for the future.
Since 2016, Kevin Mandia has been FireEye CEO since and a member of the FireEye board. Having previously served as FireEye president, Mandia joined the company in December 2013, when FireEye acquired Mandiant, the company he founded in 2004. In his role as CEO, Mandia oversaw the company’s growth to nearly 500 employees and more than $100 million in revenue. Widely recognized as the leading provider of security incident management products and services prior to the acquisition, Mandiant remains the core of the highly successful FireEye consulting business.
For more than 20 years, Mandia has been on the forefront helping organizations respond to computer security breaches. In his experience before Mandiant, he was the director of computer forensics at Foundstone, acquired by McAfee, and the director of information security for Sytex, later acquired by Lockheed Martin. Mandia was a U.S. Air Force Officer, serving as a computer security officer at the Pentagon, as well as a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Marius Haas serves as chief commercial officer and president, Enterprise Solutions for Dell. In this role, he leads the Dell sales and marketing teams that deliver innovative and practical technology solutions to consumers, small and medium businesses, Dell partners, public institutions and large enterprises worldwide. In addition, he is responsible for worldwide engineering, design, development and marketing of Dell enterprise products, including servers, networking and storage systems. Marius came to Dell in 2012 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. where he was responsible for identifying and pursuing new investments, particularly in the technology sector, while also supporting existing portfolio companies with operational expertise. Prior to KKR, Marius was senior vice president and worldwide general manager of the Hewlett-Packard Networking Division, and also served as senior vice president of Strategy and Corporate Development. Earlier in his career, Marius held a wide range of senior operations roles at Compaq and Intel Corp.
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