The MSP 501 List of Fastest-Growing MSPs — #101-#51
We examined our list of 2021 MSP 501ers to see who is killing it in terms of growth, and ID'd 101 rising stars.
September 1, 2021
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Fastest Growth Rank: 101
New York, New York
Peter Fidler, President
WCA Technologies is a New York City-based MSP that’s been in business for 33 years. Its mission is to make IT easier. The company attributes success and longevity to its core business principles, including forging partnerships, committing themselves to their clients’ success, and always acting in their client’s best interest. They have been recognized not only on the Channel Futures MSP 501, but its DE&I list as well.
Fastest Growth Rank: 100
Grapevine, Texas
James Buchanan, CEO
Buchanan Technologies is an IT consulting and outsourcing services firm that helps its customers successfully navigate the tremendous changes in business technology.
Their success is attributed to a dedication to working closely with their clients, delivering strategic IT services that assist their business objectives and transform their organizations. Their mission is to put people first, and technology second. So while software and hardware technology continues to change, their customer-centric approach to IT will not.
Fastest Growth Rank: 99
Cheadle, UK
Rhys Watson, Managing Director
Novem helps businesses run at optimal efficiency via reliable, proactive and responsive IT support and managed services. They provide IT infrastructure to businesses of all sizes, from fledgling startups to established enterprises.
Novem offers support services that are purpose-built. They provide daily access to their team of expert engineers and product specialists, and work to develop IT support solutions that meet the individual needs of a business.
Fastest Growth Rank: 98
East Hanover, New Jersey
Mark Meller, CEO
SWK works to move businesses beyond technology. They look at a business as a whole to find opportunities to improve its systems, and then apply business solutions to tie it all together.
SWK offers ERP, EDI and WMS software products and solutions as well as customized software development and managed network services. They help companies that are well positioned for growth but are constrained by software, IT infrastructure, and workflow processes across departmental silos.
Fastest Growth Rank: 97
New York, New York
Joseph Rabinowitz, Co-Founder
ManhattanTechSupport.com is a multiple award-winning full-service technology partner for businesses in New York City. The firm specializes in managed IT services, including cutting-edge cybersecurity and digital transformation solutions to help companies increase productivity, stay safe from cyberattacks, and foster growth through the efficient use of technology.
Distinguished in the industry for its customer service and 24/7 availability, ManhattanTechSupport.com offers companies a sophisticated IT department’s full breadth and depth of solutions. The firm’s technology solutions and IT expertise continue to create sustained value for its clients.
Fastest Growth Rank: 96
Houston, Texas
Scott Young, President
PennComp is a computer services and business network integration firm that has been serving Houston-based companies since 1988.
With an integrated approach to software, hardware, security, networking and systems design, the company’s mission is to ensure technology is a successful business enabler to each and every organization.
PennComp is a total solutions computer support firm for small and medium businesses and organizations. Their team specializes in expanding companies’ existing networks, integrating new business-critical applications, and custom development of software and Internet business solutions.
Fastest Growth Rank: 95
Fort Worth, Texas
Danny Owens, CEO
VersaTrust provides managed IT, managed security and Microsoft cloud solutions to small and medium-size businesses. By focusing on creating secure, infinitely scalable virtual environments that allow their clients to grow quickly, work anywhere, anytime and under any circumstance while also stabilizing IT costs, they are able to reduce customers’ IT risk and increase their productivity and profitability.
Fastest Growth Rank: 94
Salem, New Hampshire
Pedro Nunez, CEO
IT Management Solutions is a customer-centric managed service provider that strives to make life simpler for their clients. They follow proven practices and deliver guidance focused on helping customers obtain a return on their investment, to truly function as a strategic partner. By helping their clients leverage their technology they can more easily attain their goals.
Fastest Growth Rank: 93
Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia
Chris Marshall, Managing Director
Since 1998, blueAPACHE has helped organizations in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and North America leverage technology to their business advantage by delivering comprehensive IT management, cloud, network, voice, software and consulting as a converged service.
Fastest Growth Rank: 92
Media, Pennsylvania
Bruce Rosen, CEO
ITSA analyzes technology spend and optimizes budgets to save money and better align customers’ business objectives of communication, efficiency, mobility, resiliency, and security.
Fastest Growth Rank: 91
Southfield, Michigan
John Lowery, CEO
Big Water Technologies focuses on keeping IT simple, particularly concerning remote work. Big Water helps businesses grow by giving them the tech they need. They provide and support remote collaboration, teleMedicine, webinars, remote lecture, VPNs, cloud storage and more.
Fastest Growth Rank: 90
Bellingham, Washington
Mathew Henderson, President
Providing professional information technology solutions, Litzia empowers small and medium-size businesses with a range of integral, proven services with predictable costs and results. With over 30 years of combined technology experience, the Litzia team works to ensure our customers’ overall technology strategies meets their organizations’ goals.
Fastest Growth Rank: 89
Ellicott City, Maryland
Christopher Riismandel, President
Epoch is an IT managed service provider focused on solving business and technology challenges to meet an organization’s goals. Their proprietary process solves many computer issues automatically.
Fastest Growth Rank: 88
Alexandria, Virginia
Gar Whaley and Don Sauer, Co-Founders
Since 2010, Aligned Technology Solutions has been helping organizations leverage and manage technology to grow and secure their businesses. Aligned is an award-winning technology service provider delivering customized and comprehensive IT solutions for IT outsourcing, cybersecurity, compliance, and cloud solutions.
Fastest Growth Rank: 87
Windsor, Connecticut
Scott Spatz, President
Since 1993, Cooperative Systems has been assisting small and medium businesses in New England to achieve their goals with the use of technology. As a strategic IT partner to their clients, their mission is to assist them in achieving their business goals through exceptional customer service and support, tailored and cost-effective solutions, and a consultative approach to their unique business needs. The Cooperative Systems team is skilled and knowledgeable in the design, monitoring and maintenance of complex IT environments in the greater Boston and greater Hartford areas.
Fastest Growth Rank: 86
Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
Nik Devidas, Managing Director
Rock IT is the IT company that has “removed the tech talk.” They deliver technology designed to help build secure cultures for organizations.
Fastest Growth Rank: 85
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nathan Wright, Director
NW Computing is an Australia and New Zealand-based MSP with a focus on achieving outstanding customer outcomes in the cloud, and designing, implementing, and supporting best-practice infrastructure solutions. Headquartered in Melbourne with six other locations across ANZ, NW Computing supports many of Australia’s best-known brands and works extensively in the health and government sectors. NW Computing attributes its growth to its team and culture, and was thrilled to also be recognized with Channel Futures’ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion award.
Fastest Growth Rank: 84
Madison, Wisconsin
Daniel Petersen, President
Applied Tech is a security and cloud-first managed service provider supporting small and midsize businesses across the Midwest. With several offices and an expanding, national footprint of staff, the company is poised to continue its growth both organically and through acquisitions. As an operator-owned company with more than 20 years of MSP experience and a deep bench of technical talent, Applied Tech has developed the people, systems and processes to continue its upward growth path.
Fastest Growth Rank: 83
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Jason Vanzin, CEO
Right Hand Technology Group is an MSP and MSSP focused on driving cybersecurity and IT governance for its clients. They support and protect the organization and provide the high-level management to systematically address cybersecurity, compliance and organizational support to those clients with compliance requirements such as DFARS, CMMC, ITAR, PCI and HIPAA. Right Hand’s cybersecurity program consists of expert staff and tools, and proven processes to provide organizations with comprehensive cybersecurity. Their processes are based on the NIST framework.
Fastest Growth Rank: 82
Saint Louis, Missouri
Brandon Miller, CFO and COO
The Miller Group has been providing comprehensive IT management services since 1985 with the primary focus on customer service. As an IT partner, they manage every aspect of a customer’s business’s technology.
The company’s goal is to be the one-stop-shop for all IT services and to build a trusting relationship. With more than 400 clients across the Midwest, The Miller Group provides varying levels of managed IT services, backup and data recovery, IT consulting, cloud migration and management, cybersecurity, website hosting and development, and VoIP solutions for SMBs.
Fastest Growth Rank: 81
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Jim DuBos, CEO
Transformyx has provided technology solutions to thousands of clients in the Gulf South region for 34 years. They specialize in cybersecurity, data centers, cloud, collaboration and enterprise networking solutions for midmarket, small to large enterprise and public sector organizations.
Fastest Growth Rank: 80
Jacksonville, Florida
Jim Satterwhite, CEO
Venture Pointe’s IT consulting services transform information needs into business results. Its professional services group provides answers to organizations requiring technical expertise on demand. Venture Pointe’s engagements range from complex e-business and application development solutions to systems integration and technical system support.
Fastest Growth Rank: 79
Lubbock, Texas
Andrew Fleming, Co-President and COO
Computer Transition Services provides business computing solutions in the South Plains region. They have provided over 36 years of business computing support and service to West Texas and eastern New Mexico.
CTSI’s mission is to improve the life and business success of their customers by providing integrated solutions and professional services to meet their technological and organizational needs.
Fastest Growth Rank: 78
Westwood, Massachusetts
Kevin J. Routhier, President, Founder and CEO
Coretelligent is a provider of comprehensive managed and co-managed IT support, cybersecurity and cloud services. Their team of experts provides organizations with the services they need to thrive in today’s digital economy. Their mission is to provide IT support 24/7/365, leveraging their innovative proprietary technology solutions and full suite of security services to ensure exceptional business performance, data protection and security for their clients’ most sensitive information assets.
Founded in 2006, the company has offices in Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Connecticut, Georgia and California, with expanded support locations in Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Tampa, West Palm Beach and Washington, D.C.
Fastest Growth Rank: 77
St. Louis, Missouri
Nick Smarrelli, CEO
GadellNet is a Certified B Corporation in the business of powering missions through technology. Since 2003, GadellNet Consulting Services, a St. Louis and Indianapolis-based IT consulting group, incorporates a unique problem-solving orientation with project management to help their small business, medium business and education clients find solutions, efficiencies and secure opportunities for growth.
Fastest Growth Rank: 76
Joplin, Missouri
James Richards, CEO
Stronghold Data has more than 29 years of information technology and service experience. The company delivers comprehensive solutions to its SMB and enterprise clients. They specialize in managed and co-managed services, hosted cloud services, data breach risk assessment and security offerings, off-site data backup and replication, hosted email, servers, enterprise storage, network and VPN, virtualization and phone systems.
Fastest Growth Rank: 75
New York, New York
Anthony D’Ambrosi, CEO
ATSG is a tech-enabled IT services and solution provider that delivers digital innovation providing tangible business value through the sale and delivery of technology solutions as a service (TSaaS). The company serves clientele in multiple industries throughout the United States. Its service portfolio consists of three main lines of business: rediTech, rediSecure and rediManage.
ATSG offers these services with an array of commercial and technological choices for their clients, ranging from traditional project-based and support services, through complete consumption-based managed services models, inclusive of private, public and/or hybrid cloud-based alternatives.
Fastest Growth Rank: 74
Foxborough, Massachusetts
Rob Stephenson, CEO
Thrive is a provider of next-gen managed services designed to drive business outcomes through application enablement and optimization. The company’s Thrive5 methodology utilizes a unique combination of its application performance platform and strategic services to ensure each business application takes advantage of technology that enables peak performance, scale and security.
Clients rely on Thrive to drive operational efficiencies, security compliance, high availability and hardened reliability, both on-premises and in the cloud. The company’s approach to managed services enables enterprises of all sizes to realize their goals.
Fastest Growth Rank: 73
Canton, Ohio
David Besse, Partner
Ohio-based 415 Group’s IT consulting division offers full service IT consulting covering a broad range of customized computer technology services.
Fastest Growth Rank: 72
Bedford, Bedfordshire, UK
Steve Dunmall, Managing Director
Total IT is a technology services company that was established in 2006, and has been rated as one of the top 501 MSPs in the world. The company is committed to delivering high-touch IT support, and providing the highest levels of service.
Fastest Growth Rank: 71
San Francisco, California
David Park, CEO
Xterra is focused on its clients’ success, leveraging technology to be a business advantage in a world where margins matter.
Xterra’s solutions range from managed services and cloud infrastructure, to consulting and hardware. Each helps transform customer technology from a cost center to a profit center.
Fastest Growth Rank: 70
Tukwila, Washington
Scott Wittstock, CEO
Fidelis is a full-service managed service provider serving clients in the Pacific Northwest. Always with a focus on security, Fidelis helps its clients professionally manage and implement technology to reach their business goals. Fidelis offers services including help desk, managed IT support, co-managed IT services, security awareness training, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, network security, low-voltage cabling, and business communications technology.
Fastest Growth Rank: 69
Cookeville, Tennessee
Don Viar, CEO
EpiOn Health provides a software as a service (SaaS) patient engagement platform at the point of care, beginning with the patient check-in process. The company provides a variety of mobile health applications and content using a cloud-based application and content management solution. From patient check-in through check-out, Epion engages the patient and provides tools to enhance the patient/provider experience. They fully integrate with electronic medical record and practice management systems to reduce administrative costs and increase efficiencies.
Fastest Growth Rank: 68
Natick, Massachusetts
Eric Correnti, CEO
Founded in 2006, StratusPointIT’s mission is to harness the power of technology and help business executives get the most out of their technology investment, on premises or in the cloud. The company’s ITAnyWhere Support offering provides workstation, network, server, cloud, backup, security and advisory services to hundreds of businesses so they can stay competitive with the innovative use of technology.
Fastest Growth Rank: 67
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Jakobus Koorts, CEO
Established in 2004, Numata is a managed IT services and security provider, serving fast-growing, mature SMEs through its global footprint. With offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa, Numata says it’s ideally positioned to deliver results-driven IT services and solutions to various sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, logistics, retail, legal and accounting. With combined experience of over 300+ years, Numata’s flagship outsourced IT department has helped hundreds of clients over the last 17 years to transform their businesses by aligning IT to business strategy, ensuring sustainable growth and ultimately, becoming trusted advisers to clients by delivering executive advisory services that yield results.
Fastest Growth Rank: 66
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Michael Goldstein, President and CEO
LAN Infotech is a professional information technology consulting and engineering firm that has been delivering IT solutions to legal firms and other businesses for over 20 years. The company’s teams of engineers deploy solutions that range from simple internet connectivity to business continuity, online managed backup, email archiving, complex support systems, managed services and network-level security.
Fastest Growth Rank: 65
Denton, Texas
Reese Ormand, CEO
Techvera is a cloud-focused and security-minded company that provides IT support in North Texas. They provide advanced IT services that uncover and support new opportunities for automation, efficiency, growth, collaboration and revenue.
Fastest Growth Rank: 64
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Peng Chen, CEO
BlueScale seeks to make IT easy, simple and secure for medium to large businesses. They offer a level of IT managed service that meets business requirements with attention to compliance to the ACSC recognized Essential 8.
Whether it is complete IT transformation or an IT audit, BlueScale custom-builds solutions to take the complexity out of IT so customers can focus on their core business.
Fastest Growth Rank: 63
Baltimore, Maryland
Kevin Kahn, President
IntelliComp’s customer service and unique partnership approach helps create proactive, personalized network solutions that minimize downtime and maximize productivity.
IntelliComp Technologies provides nationwide support and has several locations across the United States.
Fastest Growth Rank: 62
Timmins, Ontario, Canada
Paul Brunet, CEO
Great White North Technology Consulting (GWNTC ) is a group of IT professionals that believe in designing and deploying solutions that provide mutual and lasting value for their clients. GWNTC is Métis-owned and operated in Northern Ontario. Although primarily based in northern Ontario, the company also offers IT support and services more broadly in Canada.
Fastest Growth Rank: 61
Metairie, Louisiana
Jean Prejean, President
Guardian Computer provides reliable, secure and stress-free IT services to organizations across the U.S. to enhance and safeguard their business outcomes. They serve clients in a variety of industries, including turnaround management, health care, legal, finance, manufacturing, construction and more. Guardian addresses day-to-day issues with a proactive mindset, ensuring that clients can trade their downtime for technological peace of mind.
Fastest Growth Rank: 60
London, England, UK
Carl Henriksen, CEO
OryxAlign is a UK-based managed IT services provider that enables the procurement, implementation, protection and management of a wide range of modern technologies through partnerships with their clients across EMEA, the U.S. and APAC.
Their IT services, infrastructure management and managed cybersecurity services are delivered 24x7x365 by global delivery teams from established offices across the UK and the Far East.
OryxAlign enables its clients to be operationally efficient by successfully embracing their digital transformation journey.
Fastest Growth Rank: 59
Houston, Texas
Stephen Guistwite, President and CEO
HighPoint Technology Group helps companies stay on top of their technology, which means controlling the costs associated with keeping in-house staff up-to-date with training, certifications and current trends.
HighPoint operates under the philosophy that their customers should be focused on running their core businesses, and not their technology. HighPoint works to fill these gaps for those companies that do not want to invest in full time IT staff, as well as those companies looking to supplement their existing IT staff.
With over 20 years in the business, HighPoint has helped organizations across the United States make best use of their business technology.
Fastest Growth Rank: 58
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Andrey Olinov, CEO
Complete Technologies designs, maintains and supports its clients’ IT infrastructure so that the end user can spend more time working on strategic initiatives to increase their bottom line. The company aims to become an extension of its customers’ businesses so that technology supports their goals and gives them a competitive edge in the marketplace.
Fastest Growth Rank: 57
St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Hayden McMaster, Managing Director
Synapse IT Consultants has been in the business for 20 years working with business leaders to improve their businesses through technology. The company says it uses a mesh of the right processes, systems and people to get their customers’ technology perfected.
Fastest Growth Rank: 56
Denver, Colorado
Peter Melby, CEO
Greystone Technology has been providing IT to the Colorado front range and beyond for 20 years. Its upside-down service model, emphasis on context as a part of its service delivery approach, and its ability to attract tech talent have fueled its growth and made it uniquely well-suited to lead organizations through digital transformation and beyond.
Fastest Growth Rank: 55
Manteno, Illinois
Todd Creek, CEO
Dura-Tech Enterprises is a technology solutions provider servicing business, educational, health care and government clients throughout the Midwest. Its professional services team works with customers to define and develop IT goals and strategies, then helps provide the integration, implementation and the ongoing support necessary to make them successful.
Fastest Growth Rank: 54
Frisco, Texas
Keith Barthold, CEO
DKBInnovative is a Dallas IT consulting and support firm that partners with clients as a trusted adviser to deliver technology and IT solutions so that they achieve their strategic objectives, create business value, improve user satisfaction, and ultimately reduce costs by removing focus from IT and putting it back on business productivity.
DKBInnovative is composed of IT professionals committed to providing best-in-class IT services. Having served 60+ hospitals and hundreds of medical practices, plus dozens of energy, technology and professional services firms, the company partners with clients to navigate any and all IT needs including security, network, vendor selection and management, and comprehensive security including HIPAA compliance — with a focus on increased workforce productivity.
Fastest Growth Rank: 53
Lindenhurst, Illinois
Amber Bardon, CEO
Parasol Alliance is a comprehensive in-house technology solutions company with a vision to transform the technology culture in senior living. The company specializes in helping providers maximize their use of technology through strategic technology planning, full-service IT support, consulting services and on-campus resident technology support.
As senior living is the only market they serve, and with the expertise of a team that holds over 95 years of combined experience working in the field, Parasol has a deep understanding of the challenges their clients face to streamline their clinical and programmatic operations using technology.
Fastest Growth Rank: 52
London, England, UK
Mitesh Patel, CEO
Based in London, Fifosys is a vendor-independent, technology infrastructure development and outsourced managed services provider.
Fifosys specialises in providing the level and detail of support that large-scale enterprises expect but delivered for the SME and midmarket business. Using an ITIL and Prince 2-based best practice approach to IT support, Fifosys has built a reputation as a trusted partner with its customers, providing both first-class IT support services and the highest levels of advice, guidance and reporting.
Established in 2001, Fifosys is a professional technology infrastructure specialist, delivering a broad portfolio of high-quality technical and strategic managed services.
Fastest Growth Rank: 51
Duluth, Georgia
Will Nobles, CEO
Vector Choice was created in 2008 and has been providing technology services to companies in the United States, Costa Rica, Brazil, Dominican Republic, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. William Nobles started Vector Choice Technology Solutions with the vision of empowering customers by tailoring technology solutions to each unique need. Will spent several years working for a Fortune 500 corporation, providing technology consulting and technology management.
Nobles then went to market with Vector Choice to provide those same types of services to other businesses. Whether it is a small business, a midsize company or a major corporation with multiple locations, the right technology is required to be productive and secure. Vector Choice provides that efficiency and security for its customers across the globe.
Fastest Growth Rank: 51
Duluth, Georgia
Will Nobles, CEO
Vector Choice was created in 2008 and has been providing technology services to companies in the United States, Costa Rica, Brazil, Dominican Republic, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. William Nobles started Vector Choice Technology Solutions with the vision of empowering customers by tailoring technology solutions to each unique need. Will spent several years working for a Fortune 500 corporation, providing technology consulting and technology management.
Nobles then went to market with Vector Choice to provide those same types of services to other businesses. Whether it is a small business, a midsize company or a major corporation with multiple locations, the right technology is required to be productive and secure. Vector Choice provides that efficiency and security for its customers across the globe.
One thing that the most successful MSPs have in common is that they know how to come up with a core business development strategy. Not only that, but to grow their business in such a way that helps them become the company they hope to be in the future.
There are many metrics and definitions by which MSPs define growth these days, especially in the wake of the pandemic. What does your revenue look like? What are your projections for the remaining quarters of 2021, and into 2022? Are you hiring? Looking for a buyer?
All of these are important factors and benchmarks, to be sure. We wanted to take a closer look at our 2021 MSP 501ers to get a sense of who among them were rising stars in terms of total and recurring revenue. This list of fastest-growing 501 winners ranks 101 of our 2021 winners. To determine the list, we weighted the sum of the growth rates for total revenue and recurring revenue.
Channel Futures is proud to present the 2021 101 fastest-growing MSP 501ers! We start here with 101-51. You can find our countdown of Nos. 50-1 here.
Check out our slideshow above to see who is making serious waves and changing the game within our 501 winners.
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