MSPmentor 250 List 2014: Honorees A to B

Welcome to the seventh-annual MSPmentor 250 list, honoring the world’s top managed services provider (MSP) executives, entrepreneurs and experts. This list is in alphabetical order, split into separate pages.

Background: The list is based on our annual global readership survey plus MSPmentor’s daily coverage of the managed services market. For more information about MSPmentor surveys and lists visit http://www.mspmentor.net/top250 (people) and http://www.mspmentor.net/top501 (companies).

MSPmentor 250 List 2014: Honorees A to B

Jason Abel, CEO, IntermixIT

Jason Abel transformed a small stagnant break/fix shop into an MSP. IntermixIT is on course to double sales revenue 2014 vs 2012, going from under $10,000 MRR in early 2013 to over $35,000 MRR to date in 2014 while maintaining over a 95 percent customer retention rate.

http://vimeo.com/album/2810802

http://www.intermixit.com/techtips/

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonabel1

Mona Abutaleb, President and CEO, mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc.

In 2014,  Abutaleb led her mindSHIFT team into its next growth phase by seamlessly integrating the company into Ricoh, tripling the mindSHIFT territory presence throughout North America. Under her leadership, the company has pursued a hybrid portfolio expansion strategy by continuing to innovate internally while also integrating best-of-breed third-party products so that users are equipped with the right IT products and services and can compete in today’s always-on marketplace.

Dan Allaby, Director of Cloud Offerings, Avnet

Dan developed the Avnet Cloud Toolset (ACT) to help its managed service provider (MSP) and value-added reseller (VAR) partners in the United STates and Canada simplify customer invoicing for cloud deployments. By leveraging ACT, partners will be able to ensure that their Amazon Web Services (AWS) and (IBM) SoftLayer customers are provided with invoices that accurately track individual and aggregate cloud usage for their organizations, helping them to optimize their enterprise-wide AWS and SoftLayer spend.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/danallaby

Michael Amadio, Director of Marketing, Excel Micro LLC

Amadio single-handedly managed Excel Micro’s marketing efforts throughout the entire year which grew the organization to now manage over 3,500 partners and which also lead to the acquisition of Excel Micro by j2 Global. Mike has transformed Excel Micro’s reputation from a single product distributor to being more of a single point of purchase of all cloud security.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-amadio/25/238/621

Scott Anderson, President, Core Business Services

Anderson has led CORE to revenue growth of 280 percent over 4 years. CORE has been included on MSPMentor’s 501 list, the INC 5000 Fastest Growing List, and CRN’s Fast Growth and Next-Gen lists. Scott has created an environment that fosters employee and customer satisfaction, with CORE named a Top 100 Company to Work for in Oregon. CORE is driven by three values: people, partner, and profit.

http://www.helpmecore.com/blog/

Carolyn April, Senior Director of Industry Research, CompTIA

Carolyn April has her finger on the pulse of the IT service provider industry, following the trends and forces that impact the value added reseller and managed service provider markets. She provides her insights via CompTIA. She’s also served as an industry journalist and a prominent researcher in other organizations.

Rob Autor, Senior Vice President of Global Service Delivery, Continuum Managed IT Services

Rob Autor has helped Continuum increase the number of supporting endpoints by 43 percent and increase completed incidents per day to 350-450 tickets. Working in conjunction with the NOC, the Service Desk has achieved First Contact Resolution (FCR) that averages 77 percent, far above the average of 64 percent, as cited in an HDI research study in August 2013. Service Desk enhancements and improvements that Rob spearheaded have led to support of more than 28,000 users for the SMBs in a range of industries, from manufacturing and retail to legal and medical. https://twitter.com/RobAutor

http://blog.continuum.net/author/rob-autor

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertautor

Ricky Ayers, CFO, WorkSmart Inc.

Ayers has led financial management and strategy for WorkSmart since its inception in 2001. Ayers is an active leader within HTG. He attributes WorkSmart’s strong growth in recurring revenue — almost 25 percent per year — to approaching IT from a business perspective. WorkSmart’s top line and bottom line growth comes from strategic financial planning, internal cost controls, and an ongoing focus on efficiency and automation, he said. His company has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 for 8 consecutive years.

www.linkedin.com/in/rickyayers

Adam Barney, COO, Framework Communications

Barney, a financial adviser by training, has led his company to significant growth that landed it on the Inc. 500 list for 2014.

http://www.frameworkcommunications.com/blog/

Milton Bartley, President/CEO, ImageQuest Managed Services

Bartley is a pioneer of managed services and managed cloud technologies with more than 18 years of industry experience. He has led ImageQuest Managed Services, to three consecutive years of 40-plus percent growth. The company grew 42.5 percent last year, 48 percent in 2012, and 63 percent in 2011. Bartley is also in high demand as a speaker and peer educator on managed services, pioneering strategies, and industry standardization.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/miltonbartley

Joy Belinda Beland, Founder/CEO, LA IT Girl

Joy Belinda Beland LA IT Girl in 1997 with the mission of forming a group of strong, successful women in IT that would service SMBs for all their computer needs. Since then, Joy has secured several Microsoft credentials and has expanded her practice.  She presents at national IT conferences on her methods for budget review and relationship management with clients. She serves as the vice president of SBMTN Pasadena and serves as the special events chair of IAMCP So Cal North.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joy-belinda-beland/6/63/a24

Kirill Bensonoff, CEO, ComputerSupport.com

Bensonoff led ComputerSupport.com, a Massachusetts-based MSP to double sales and size in 2013, complete a merger with VPSI, and win numerous industry honors such as NextGen250 and MSPmentor Top 501.

https://twitter.com/prankstr25

https://www.facebook.com/kirill.bensonoff?fref=ts

http://www.computersupport.com/blog/

Aaron Bianchetta, NOC Manager, SWC Technology Partners

Aaron Bianchetta is the Network Operations Manager at SWC Technology Partners, an award-winning provider of IT solutions to Chicagoland midsize businesses. He leadership and management of SWC’s Network Operations Center (NOC) team has contributed to a more than 30 percent growth of the company’s managed services practice this year. Aaron has worked diligently to grow SWC’s NOC team and get internal staff certified in ITIL. His emphasis on continual process improvement, implementation of best practices and focus on customer service.

http://www.swc.com/blog

www.linkedin.com/pub/aaron-bianchetta/17/4b3/a21

Karl Bickmore, Partner, Premier IT Inc.

Bickmore has expanded his company from one location and four employees to 60 employees in 5 years, with locations in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Francisco. Bickmore facilitates a users group for ConnectWise and is a speaker at IT Nation each year, sharing best practices with other MSPs.

http://www.premieritinc.com/blog

Lynette Bohanan, Principal, CommCentric Solutions

Since co-founding CommCentric in 2006, Bohanan has enabled technology distributors, vendors and solutions providers to more effectively communicate diverse and fast-changing perspectives on the managed services industry. By working with companies along all points of the IT channel, she helps them better understand each group’s key drivers and build programs and services that address critical business needs.

https://twitter.com/LynetteBohanan

www.linkedin.com/in/lynettebohanan/

Nicholas Boris, President, Pittsburgh Technology Management

Boris has taken a profitable break/fix PC repair and IT service shop to a 100 percent managed services provider in under two years. Since 2012, managed services revenue has increased by 307 percent and net profits have increased by 165 percent. In 2015, Pittsburgh Technology Management will be bringing the processes developed in managed services to digital marketing, website development and SEO

http://www.pgh-it.com/blog/

Vincent Borrelli, Director of Operations, Diamond Technologies

Borrelli and the Diamond leadership team differentiate by providing line-of-business application support and CIO guidance all included as part of the fixed monthly fee.  The managed service arm of the company has become the fastest growth business unit for Diamond with 20 active customers, over 1200 active end users and workstations, and over 130 servers and related networking hardware, all supported 24x7x365 by a lean team of 8 experienced technicians/analysts.

Seth Bostock, CEO, IndependenceIT

Seth Bostock drove 2014 revenue growth more than 330 percent with major new partners joining the company’s channel ecosystem.

James Bowen, co-founder, Five Nines Technology Group

Co-founder of Five Nines Technology Group, Bowen has provided executive level leadership to a company that has been named on the Inc. 5000 list 6 years running. He is particularly active in the community sitting on several boards, and takes a hands-on approach to client IT work, making Five Nines a leading MSP in Nebraska. The company has grown from 2 employees to 95 in 8 years, recently being nominated as a Best Place to Work in Lincoln, Nebraska.

https://www.facebook.com/jsbowen?fref=ts

Neal Bradbury, Co-Founder and VP of Channel Development, Intronis

Intronis co-founder Bradbury provided early guidance enabling Intronis to change its DNA to become a channel exclusive player with a white-label, SaaS-based BDR service offering built specifically for VARs, MSPs and CSPs. Since then, he’s played a pivotal role in the development and success of Intronis’ channel program. He is always front and center with Intronis’ MSP partners and prospects attending roadshows, conducting webinars with industry experts including Robin Robins and Gary Pica, hosting calls and spending a great deal of time in the field.

www.twitter.com/nealbradbury

http://blog.intronis.com

www.linkedin.com/nealbradbury

Paul Brown, CEO, Certus Technology Group

Since 2001, Brown has helped build one of the first SME-focused MSPs in Wales and the south of the UK. The company has delivered over 20 percent annual growth 2008 through 2014, and continues to expand its portfolio of managed services and cloud services with clients from the financial services, professional services, manufacturing, leisure and public sector verticals. Brown took on the CEO job in 2012, and has since overseen the launch of Certus TG’s data center division, in partnership with NGD Europe, providing enterprise IaaS, PaaS, DaaS and hosting solutions including VMware and Hyper-V public and private cloud solutions, fully managed colocation services.

http://www.certustg.com/resources/our-blog

http://uk.linkedin.com/in/brownpd

Greg Buerk, CTO, LabTech Software

Based in Labtech Technology’s original home state of Ohio, Buerk has provided development direction for the company since its inception.

Michael Bui, Sr Mgr, Channel & Distribution Marketing, Intel Security

Bui has leveraged his 12 years of channel experience in his role leading Cloud/SaaS, MSP, SMB Channel and Distribution Marketing for McAfee, which was acquired by Intel. McAfee’s MSP business has grown over 400 percent with an increase of over 250 percent of new MSPs recruited to the McAfee MSP program in the last 12 months. He serves on the CompTIA Executive Council for Cloud and is an active member with the MSP and IT Security communities.

@Michael_Bui

http://blogs.mcafee.com/category/business/mcafee-channel

Peter Busam, Chief Balancer, Equilibrium Consulting LLC

Busam coaches traditional service providers to become MSP or Cloud providers. He has helped many MSP/Cloud providers optimize their sales, marketing and operations helping them produce on average 20 percent growth year over year. 

http://www.equilibriumconsult.com/category/blog/

www.linkedin.com/in/petebusam/

Frank Butler, Founder and CEO, Proxios

Butler has pioneered IT as a Service, successfully commercializing the delivery of our client’s IT infrastructure from the keyboard to the cloud in a standardized, consumable manner that is highly reliable, easy to support and affordable.