Presenters
Ed Ackerman currently serves as Director of Alliances and Partnerships at Onfido. He joined the company in 2016 as Head of Client Management and has been instrumental in driving the company's commercial strategy and revenue growth. Prior to Onfido, Ed led a high performing team as Head of UK Channel Partnerships at Google. He started his career as a management consultant at Deloitte.
Ed Correia is the founder and CEO of Sagacent Technologies, a 14-year-old managed service provider in Silicon Valley. As a 35-year information technology professional, Ed brings a unique blend of business management experience, operational know-how, and computer industry knowledge to Silicon Valley.Prior to founding Sagacent Technologies, Ed managed the West Coast sales and operations for a nation...
Ed Roberts has been involved in the computer industry for more than 20 years. He is the president and CEO of Lethos Inc., an IT consulting firm based in Southern California. Mr. Roberts is also the founder and chairman at large of the Southern California IT Professional Association, a non-profit corporation for community benefit based in Orange County, Calif. Ed has a technical background in rad...
Ed Mana is the founder and chief technologist of Technology On Demand, of Yorktown Heights, N.Y. For more than 18 years, Ed and Co. have provided technology services to various vertical markets, specializing in the audio/visual industry. These services include traditional IT services along with Crestron programming of both AV and lighting systems. Ed was one of the first Crestron Certified Pr...
Eric Fiske is a U.S. veteran who served in the armed forces for 11 years. After the service, Eric went back to school where he found his passion for ethical hacking. He worked for an organization for seven years as their senior information security engineer and just recently co-founded Hacket Cyber, an offensive security services boutique. Eric is a husband who is a father to four girls. He enjoys...
Eric Long is the President of TeraCloud, a national cloud computing and managed services provider. With over 30 years of experience in the Information Technology sector, Eric has become the go-to resource for large and small companies when it comes to solving complex IT issues that decrease productivity and hurt business operations.
In 1992, Eric M. Shorr founded Secure Future Tech Solutions, an IT company specializing in servicing the small-to-mid size business community throughout New England. He has extensive knowledge and experience in network security, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, proactive network monitoring and maintenance and network video solutions. Eric and his team specialize in servicing Law firms, Property M...
Eric Weast has been the owner and operator of ECW Computers Inc. for the past 18 years. Eric began his career as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer in local government, but quickly saw a growing need in the business and healthcare sector for robust infrastructure, and started building ECW Network & IT Solutions from the ground up. What started as a personal venture many years ago has turne...
Eric Weiss is the Multimedia Editor for FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World. He has been covering the biometrics and identity industries for the sites for the past two years, building on nearly a decade of experience as a media and entertainment critic. During that time, he covered everything from games to film to the start-up tech community, with a strong focus on interactive media and Virtual and...
Erica Martinez-Rose co-founded Tech Rage IT in 2015 after experiencing moments of technology rage due to disappointing IT support at her former job. She was committed to stopping the madness and helping small businesses thrive with sanity-saving, surprisingly good IT support and a positive customer experience. With more than 20 years of combined experience in marketing, information tec...
As Channel Marketing Manager, Erica Mikulsky designs and manages programs and partner-facing engagement opportunities, while driving power management solutions with partners in the US. Eaton strives to expand product sales through channel partners who are looking to meet all of the power demands generated by the new data center.
Erick Simpson built and sold one of the very first MSPs in the industry and co-founded MSP University, where he grew and coached a channel of 30,000 IT solution providers through their MSP transformation. He is the creator of the MSP Mastered® Methodology for business performance improvement that has been licensed by numerous IT channel distributors and vendors. Erick is a technology business and...
Esteban Blanco is chief geek officer and owner of Blanco I.T. He has two decades of experience in the field of information technology. Esteban is very involved in his community and a strong advocate for small businesses in Texas. He is also a professional vocalist with a passion for travel. Esteban’s love of music led to his emigration to the United States in 1997 when he was invited to join the...
A professional with 14 years’ experience in the industrial IoT area, Flavio Devide’ is responsible for the development of the edge and IoT market for Dell Technologies Design Solutions, which for more than 15 years has been serving over 4,000 customers on more than 40 different verticals, with products and services dedicated to scale and optimize their core business.
Frances Zelazny is Co-Founder & CEO of Anonybit, a decentralized biometrics infrastructure (not blockchain!) that is breaking new ground in the area of user privacy and digital security. With over 25 years of experience scaling up enterprise SaaS companies in cyber, fintech, digital identity and analytics, Frances leads with strong vision and operational capacity. In prior roles, Frances...
Frank Ballatore is president of The New England Computer Group, Inc. (NECG), a Connecticut-based technology consulting firm. Frank has a vast background in personal computing dating back to 1981. In his corporate career at Unilever and then Citicorp, he held a number of positions that all involved automating financial control tasks that had previously been done manually. This led to his love of co...
Frank Bravata is a technology expert, serial entrepreneur, public speaker, best-selling author, podcaster and Veterans’ supporter. His company, Cyber Brigade, leverages his military experience to bring cutting-edge cyber security and technology solutions to his clients. He has been interviewed and written for outlets such as Reuters, The New York Time, Forbes, The Daily News, Long Island Busines...
Frank Pittman is the National Account Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise for Rack and Power products in the Server Options category, specializing in UPSs and PDUs. In this role Frank is responsible for sales for the Americas region through all channels and all go-to-markets. For the past 3 years, Frank has trained and educated distributors, partners and end users alike on the benefits of Hewlet...
Frank Suglia is the Director of Global Technical Sales at BitTitan, helping channel partners plan, configure, and execute complex migration projects and scenarios. As co-founder and former CTO of Strategic SaaS, an Austin-based Microsoft cloud services partner and IT management company, Suglia brings more than 30 years of experience in technical sales and service delivery management at Fortune 500...
A recognized IT and managed services CEO and operations and sales expert, Gary Beechum began his career of more than 20 years in the sales and marketing industry, and applied this experience to help transform a professional IT services organization into one of the first pure-play MSPs in the SMB space in 2005. Developing a value-priced sales methodology for an “all you can eat” managed...
Gary Bixler is the founder and principal consultant at Bixler Enterprises, which focuses on delivering marketing, channel, business, and strategy consulting to leading technology companies around the world. Bixler is a 20-year veteran of the high-technology market segment with broad experience that crosses all marketing disciplines, including strategic, technical, product, channel, and field marke...
Gary Pica is a pioneer in the managed services field. His first MSP, Dynamic Digital Services, was “early to market” in the MSP arena. It quickly became one of the fastest-growing MSPs in the country, with more than 7,000 endpoints under management, generating over $500,000 of monthly recurring revenue.Gary has since launched TruMethods, a coaching, peer, and accountability firm aimed at helping I...
Mr. Stroupe came to the FBI’s, Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division from the private sector in 2006. Since then, he has worked exclusively in the CJIS Division’s Biometric Services Section in Clarksburg, West Virginia leading a variety of technical and operational efforts. In 2013 he was tasked as the operational lead for the transition from the FBI’s IAFIS System to t...
Gates is an engaged and dynamic professional with over 30 years of experience in IT. He is focused on providing IT strategy, process and technology solutions to financial services, MRD and advising a wide range of tech companies, from start-ups to F500 companies. He has an MBA in Finance, and his strengths lie in business development, strategic partnerships, technology innovation, project manageme...
In his role as President & CBDO for Scytáles, Geoff manages business development activities and the company’s relationships within the digital identity community. In his prior job, Geoff worked in cooperation with the North American motor vehicle administrations and other Government issuing authorities on their identity management and identification security efforts. He has over 25 years’ expe...