Presenters
Raj Varma has 20-plus years of software industry experience, with 10 years at Microsoft as a developer, lead, and an architect evangelist for multiple advanced technologies. Raj is an expert in strategic alliances; business development; analyzing, developing, and maintaining standards; project and software methodologies; and processes.She is also a serial entrepreneur of multiple technology compan...
Rayanne Buchianico has devoted her career to the technology industry. With over 25 years of working in and around technology, she built many companies to support IT professionals across the globe.As the owner of ABC Solutions LLC in Clearwater, Florida, she developed processes for MSPs to focus on profitability, automation, and standardization through bookkeeping, accounting, and fractional CFO se...
Rebecca Herold has over 30 years of security and privacy experience. She is founder of The Privacy Professor Consultancy (2004) and of Privacy & Security Brainiacs SaaS services (2021). Rebecca has built compliance programs for hundreds of clients; co-authored NIST catalogs NISTIR 7628, NISTIR 8259, SP 800-213, NISTIR 8425, and TN 2066; and has served as an expert witness for cases covering HI...
Reed Warren is CEO, Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), and Value Builder Advisor at iT Valuations. During his 30+ years working in the IT Services and technology industry, he’s provided business strategy, consulting and M&A services (60+ successful transactions) to over 250 companies across 19 different countries. Though Reed began his career in software development, he quickly moved into...
Reinhard Hochrieser is Vice President of Global Product Management at Jumio, and responsible for the entire product experience, driving innovative ideas and solutions, and leading a global team of product managers. He previously served as Jumio’s director of product management, and has been with the company since 2012. Reinhard has more than a decade of experience in enterprise solutions, and held...
Renee McCloden is the head of business development at Netrix IT where she serves as the virtual CIO for her clients. She achieves this through offering Netrix IT managed services, business continuity and disaster recovery, and managed security services offerings. She has dedicated the past 20 years of her professional career to banking, investments and insurance, and technology markets. From...
Renil Paramel is the co-founder and Senior Partner at Strategy of Things, a Silicon Valley based innovation consultancy, that brings disruptive digital technologies and strategies to enable smart cities, buildings and factories. Recent accomplishments include the development and launch of SMC Labs (www.smclabs.io), San Mateo County’s innovation lab focused on solving regional problems affecting it...
Rex Frank is the founder and CEO of Sea-Level Operations. He started the company in 2010 with the core purpose to "coach IT managed service providers on achieving operational excellence.” Sea-Level has 20 employees and to date they have guided over 450 MSPs on their operational journey. Rex has over 30 years of industry experience in IT service delivery and over 25 years specializing in deli...
Ricardo is the Founder & CEO of Incode Technologies. He has 20+ years of experience founding and leading companies.In 2000, he founded La Burbuja Networks, a social network company. In 2003, Ricardo co-founded Amco Foods, a functional beverage startup that, as CEO, he grew into one of the top players in the market. Bimbo Group, a $12B Company (MEXI: BIMBO – biggest bread company in the world)...
As ChannelPro’s founding and executive editor, Rich Freeman is responsible for setting overall editorial direction, covering industry trends, and reporting on breaking news in the SMB technology market. A veteran writer and editor, Rich has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including over eight years in Microsoft’s vertical industry and enterprise marketing groups and more...
Richard is a Business Development Manager on the cloud team at Tech Data, a fortune 100 company and the world’s leading end-to-end technology distributor. He is an accomplished business professional with a creative mind who also enjoys looking at the world through the lens of a camera. With over 23 years of experience in the IT industry, Richard’s primary goal is to implement strategies built arou...
Richard Shinnick, former NSA adviser and Air Force veteran, is the founder of Touchstone Security. He has 35-plus years of experience in the computer security industry providing advice on the risks associated with information technology with a specialty focus on cloud technology. In 1998, Richard founded his first company, Shinnick Consulting. In 2000, he co-founded a second company, STIGrou...
Richard Stiennon is Chief Research Analyst for IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 2,200 vendors that make up the IT security industry. He has presented on the topic of cybersecurity in 31 countries on six continents. He is the author of "Secure Cloud Transformation: The CIO’s Journey and Surviving Cyberwar" (Government Institutes, 2010) and Washington Post Best Seller, "There Wil...
Rick Murphy is an innovative, serial entrepreneur with a wide range of merger and acquisition experience. As the CEO and managing partner at Cogent Growth Partners LLC, he has led 75-plus acquisition transactions for his firm's buy-side clients in the IT services space since the inception of the company in 2010. Rick is expert at conceiving, planning, and leading comprehensive acquisition strategi...
Rick Smith is the founder and CEO of Renactus Technology LLC, a managed service provider based in Union, N.J. Renactus' primary focus is to provide professional in-house IT services to small and medium businesses that do not have on-staff support or expertise. The goal at Renactus is to relieve the business owner of the stress and complications of their technology and “Simply Make IT Work” for the...
Ridley brings 20 years of industry knowledge to Dropsuite. Previously, he was as Vice President Sales and later General Manager of StopTheHacker, a leading website security company (acquired by CloudFlare). Ridley has prior experience in sales, marketing, business development, website security, and forensic data duplication.
RJ Friedman serves as the chief information security officer for Buchanan Technologies, a leading managed IT service provider with headquarters in Grapevine, Texas, and Mississauga, Ontario. As the head of the managed security services division, RJ oversees all of Buchanan’s managed security operations, from sales to delivery, to ensure the company is consistently providing excellent customer serv...
Ro Kolakowski is the founder of 6th Street Consulting, a management consulting firm focused on providing strategy and technology consulting services. He has more than 25 years of finance and technology experience. He was a senior equity analyst covering telecommunications companies in Latin America, including Telmex and Telebras while at D.A. Campbell Company. In addition, he provided investment b...
Robert M. Mungovan has over 20 years of experience with Aware. Prior to his current role as Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Mungovan served as Aware’s Vice President of Biometrics and as the Sales and Marketing Manager of Biometrics and Imaging. Before joining Aware Mr. Mungovan held positions in several small companies whose focus was digital imaging and machine vision. His passion of working with...
Rob Webster has served as Director of SMB Sales at Tech Data since September 2016. In this role, Webster is responsible for the strategic direction, development, and execution of Tech Data’s sales programs for small to medium-size business (SMB) resellers. Webster started at Tech Data in 1995 as an Inside Sales Rep and progressed through various positions for 16 years before joining Lenovo in Aust...
A 12-year veteran of the IT industry, Robert (Robb) Patterson is a leading technology consultant and advisor to businesses and community organizations, as well as a sought-after speaker and writer, in the New York Metro Area. In 2011, Robb joined Progressive Computing Inc., which designs, installs, and maintains computer networks for small and midsize companies, as business development manager....
Since 2003 Bob Dale has been a strategic growth and M&A advisor for owners and entrepreneurs who want to build, buy, and sell companies. His firm, the Austin Dale Group Inc., specializes in working with cloud, IT service, and software companies, providing services such as business sales, acquisitions, valuations, financial coaching, strategic exit planning, and value enhancement. Previously Bo...
Robert A. (Bob) Nitrio is the CEO of Ranvest Associates, a business technology consulting firm that he founded in 1992 in Sacramento, Calif. The company provides strategic business consulting and technology solutions to the SMB market. By becoming intimately familiar with each client’s operations, Bob guides them through an analytical process designed to streamline and enhance their operations. Ap...
Robert Boles is the founder and president of BLOKWORX, an organization built on three foundational tenets: security, reliability, and a positive user experience. Robert has designed infrastructure for hundreds of companies ranging from small businesses to large corporations to municipalities. With over 20 years’ experience in cybersecurity and complex global networks, Robert made the decision to p...
Robert Iannicello is vice president, global MSSP programs and business development (BIO), at Cofense. Robhas worked in the IT security industry for over 14 years helping organizations globally secure their digital world from todays most sophisticated attacks. He’s held positions at Symantec in both a direct sales and channel sales capacity, helping their most valuable partners grow. For the last s...