MSPmentor 250: Page 8 of Our 2011 Edition

Each year, the MSPmentor 250 identifies the world’s top managed services experts, entrepreneurs and executives — including professionals who have mastered business leadership, marketing, sales, technology, coaching and other areas within the managed services market. For our 2011 edition, here’s page 8 of 10…

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Jason Pollner, Co-CEO, IT Authorities Inc.
Pollner has built a company that has grown 377% and landed on the Inc. 5000 list. He apparently designed business processes that fill PSA software gaps.

David Powell, VP of Managed Services, TekLinks
Powell has worked for three of the companies in the MSPMentor 100 — Claris, ETG and TekLinks. In his two years at TekLinks, Managed Services monthly revenues have nearly tripled, they have opened a third data center and received several awards for their Managed Services success.

Ian Power, Managing Director, Unitec IT Solutions
During the past six months, Unitec has transformed from a tradiitonal Break/Fix IT Services company to a focused MSP. By utilizing and integrating some of the industries leading PSA and RMM tools, Unitec has created the “Pulse Centre. The Pulse Centre is key to Unitec’s vision and ability to automate IT processes and the reason the company’s client base has grown by approximately 25% annually.

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Jeff Ragusa, Google Apps SMB Channel Lead, Google
Ragusa has helped Google to attract more than 1,000 partners into the Google Apps Authorized Reseller partner program.

Amit Ray, Director, Product Management, Strategy and Sales Enablement, Connectiva Systems Inc.
Ray helped Connectiva to complete several of its initial managed services deals. That Managed Services Business Unit is one of the most profitable business units within Connectiva.

Steve Renda, Senior VP, Global Sales and Marketing, Verio Inc.
Renda brings more than 20 years of experience in the technology and telecommunications industries to Verio. In this role, Renda leads Verio’s worldwide direct, OEM and channel sales strategy and operations, as well as the company’s business development and marketing efforts. Prior to joining Verio, Renda was senior VP of sales and marketing for MX Logic, the SaaS security provider now owned by Intel through the McAfee acquisition.

Paul Reymann, Chief Risk Officer, HEIT
Reymann helped to inject corporate compliance IT expertise into HEIT and its financial services customer base. He is a co-author of the GLBA and a former federal regulator. HEIT is one of the top MSPs serving community banks and credit unions.

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Robin Robins, Owner, Technology Marketing Toolkit
Robins is one of the channel’s best-known coaches and motivational leaders. Her best practives in marketing have helped hundreds of VARs and MSPs to bolster their revenues.

Nico Roelants, Vendor Relations Manager, Aurelium NV
Roelants has played an instrumental role in building Aureliun’s reputation for delivering quality service for over 24 years in Belgium. They were recently recognized as Level Platforms’ Partner of the Year.

Alex Rogers, President, CharTec
Rogers built CharTec from his experience as CEO of ARRC Technology, a solutions provider that he launched in 1992 with a $300 investment. With support of ConnectWise Capital and under Rogers’ direction in 2010, CharTec grew 2,300% in revenue and from 170 partners to more than 600 within that year. Rogers is an expert on hardware as a service (HaaS), backup and disaster recovery (BDR), and overall sales processes that drive recurring revenues. Colorful. Outspoken. Energetic.

Ted Roller, VP of Channel Development, Intronis
Roller drives channel engagement and business development for Intronis, a leading cloud backup provider that works closely with hundreds of MSPs. Intronis over the past 12 months has added a record number of partners, increasing storage above the 2 Petabyte mark, and adding close to 30 employees. Intronis has been recognized as a “Best Revenue Generator” three consecutive times by ASCii resellers in 2011.

Dan Rosedahl, General Manager, Corporate Technologies
Rosedahl works behind the scenese, providing constant feedback to Cisco Systems and Level Platforms on beta projects, as well as advice to his peers as power user at partner conferences and partner forums.

Jon Roskill, Channel Chief, Microsoft Corp.
Roskill stepped into the Channel Chief post in mid-2010. Since that time, Microsoft has vastly increased its cloud and managed services offerings for VARs and MSPs — launching Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online, Windows Intune and more. Although some partners criticize Microsoft’s cloud billing policiies, thousands of partners are testing Office 365.

Ilene Rosoff, President, The Launch Pad LLC
Rosoff has built a Managed IT Services company that has been recognized as one of the top 100 MSPs in the world. This year she launched a managed IT service franchise strategy.

Jason Ryals, IT Manager, Speros
Ryals has leveraged relationships with Level Platforms, Tigerpaw and Intel (vPro) to build on of Georgia’s fast-moving MSPs. And he proved to be one of MSPmentor Lives’s most engaging guest webcast speakers in recent months.

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Dave Sagraves, VP, Sales and Marketing, Claris Networks LLC
Sagraves has helped Claris grow its contracted monthly recurring revenues 725% over the last seven years.

Ahsun Saleem, Partner, Simplegrid Technology, Inc.
Peers say Saleem is a rock star in the Legal IT field. He’s now turned his attention to bringing that expertise to the SMB market.

Maurice Saluan, Senior VP of Sales, Zenith Infotech
Saluan is one of the MSP industry’s best-known sales executives, helping Zenith Infotech to build relationships with hundreds of MSPs across such markets as RMM software, NOC services, help desk services, business continuity, private cloud solutions and telepresence.

Peter Sandiford, CEO, Level Platforms
After building a $1 billion global systems integration company, Sandiford started Level Platforms 10 years ago to create software that allows service providers to deliver advanced IT management to SMB customers. Thousands of MSPs in 30 countries now leverage Level Platforms’ Managed Workplace software, which provides remote monitoring, management and automation. Sandiford also is the industry’s consummate optimist.

Devita Saraf, CEO, Vu TelePresence
Saraf has positioned Vu Telepresence as an SMB solution that potentially generates recurring revenues for MSPs. Early adopters include telecom resellers. Her brother is Zenith Infotech CEO Akash Saraf.

Akash Saraf, CEO, Zenith Infotech
Saraf has built Zenith Infotech into one of the leading providers of MSP-centric solutions, including remote monitoring software, NOC (network operations center) services, BDR (backup and disaster recovery) services and cloud services. His sister is Vu Telepresence CEO Devita Saraf.

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