Presenters
Jay McBain is one of the most visible thought leaders in the global technology channel. Named to the Top 40 Under Forty by the Business Review as well as numerous channel magazines top influencer lists, he is often sought out for industry guidance and future trends. He has spent his 24-year career in various executive channel sales, marketing, and strategy roles within IBM, Lenovo, Autotask, and C...
Jay Meier is an award-winning financial securities analyst and subject matter expert in identity access management, credentialing, and biometrics.
Jayson Ferron is CISO/CEO of Interactive Security Training LLC. Jay is a multi-certified information security subject matter expert with more than 40 years of professional experience, which includes security and compliance, integration and transformation initiatives, IS management process, and operational metrics definition and documentation. Customers include insurance companies, Microsoft, phone...
Jeff Bendix started his business in 2000 as a toner cartridge remanufacturer and quickly refocused the company on managed print services. Many years ago, he also added managed IT services to broaden their service offerings and have been serving the complete technology needs of their customers for many years. Jeff has served on many industry boards and committees, including the International Imagin...
Jeff O'Heir is a veteran journalist and editor who has spent much of his career covering the business leaders, issues, and trends that define the IT and consumer technology channels. His work in print, online, and on stage has showcased, educated, and connected small and large solutioin providers, MSPs, channel pros, and vendors. In his role as event content director and community manager for The...
Jeffrey Jansen has been with PC Corp for over 24 years, and currently is in the role of vendor relationship officer, maintaining and cultivating strategic partnerships within the IT channel ecosystem, and as senior consultant. He has also been a member of the Ingram Micro Trust X Community for the last 18 years and currently serves as the regional president (Canada) for the Trust X Advisory Counci...
Jennifer Bleam is an award-winning speaker, a respected leader in the IT channel, and 2-time best-selling author. Her book “Simplified Cybersecurity Sales For MSPs” (available on Amazon and Audible) has over 125 reviews and MSPs can’t stop raving about it. She has had the privilege of speaking at countless industry events including ones hosted by ConnectWise, Continuum, Kaseya, Auvik, Technology M...
Best-selling author, entrepreneur, coach, and engaging geek Jennifer Buchholz has worked in higher education, training, and development for over 20-years. When she realized that traditional methods weren’t helping her students thrive—she founded Excel & Flourish. Based in Milwaukee, Excel & Flourish helps organizations and teams improve productivity and reduce frustration with Microsoft pr...
Jeremy Grant brings more than 20 years' experience at the intersection of identity, privacy, and cybersecurity, having served in a range of leadership positions spanning government and industry. He serves as Venable's Managing Director of Technology Business Strategy and is a member of the firm's eCommerce, Privacy, and Cybersecurity Group. Jeremy previously established and...
Joanna Mirov is an accomplished entrepreneur and businesswoman who has established herself as an active advisor and guest speaker on business and technology. With a proven track record of growing a multi-million-dollar IT company and mentoring MSP leaders and women professionals, Joanna aims to share her knowledge and expertise with others, helping them to achieve their goals and reach new heights...
Joe Cicirelli is Director of Remote Operations for Ntiva, Inc. Ntiva’s Remote Operations organization encompasses 3 tiers of Service Desk Technicians, the Service Request Team, the Network Operations Center and an Operations Engineering team. He brings 20 years of MSP experience in a multitude of roles such as Field Operations, Professional Services, Project management, Client Experience and Manag...
Joe has more than 20 years’ experience running hosting, cloud and MSP businesses. As VP of Cloud he’s creating the next generation of Virtuozzo solutions that will enable MSPs and CSPs to offer more flexible, cost-effective and profitable clouds of their own.
John Bernard is the Senior Principal of Travel and Transport at IDEMIA I&S North America. Prior to joining IDEMIA, John served as the strategy and business development leader for L3Harris Technologies aviation information management business, serving customers in both the US and international markets. John also built and led L3Harris Advanced Concepts Engineer team within their civil aviation...
Over a nine-year tenure at Juniper Networks starting in 2005, John grew the business by more than 500 percent. In 2014, he joined HP to lead the networking business in Canada where his role evolved to several sales leadership positions prior to his final executive position there. He served as vice president and general manager for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Canada, responsible for leading HPE’s C...
Fueled by an academic background in Security Systems and an unwavering commitment to digital security, John leads a pre-sales engineering team at Barracuda MSP. Leveraging his expertise in cybersecurity, he empowers organizations to navigate the ever-evolving threat landscape. John holds multiple industry certifications (CompTIA Security+ and CySA+) and honed his skills as SOC Analyst, quickly ris...
John Eckstrom is president and CEO of Carolina Business Equipment (CBE), of Columbia, S.C. He started in November 1994 as the company’s controller and moved to the general manager position in March 1995. At the end of that year he purchased half of the company and became its president; five years later he became its sole owner.Over the past 10 years CBE has moved into three new geographic markets,...
John Krikke is a partner and Vice President of Onward Computer Systems, a 28-year-old organization that offers complete IT solutions and managed services to small and medium sized businesses in Southern Ontario.John has been involved in the IT technology industry since 1986. In 1993 he formed Krikke Computer Services (KCS), an innovator in providing managed support services for small and medium si...
John Port is a cybersecurity expert with experience in investigations, detection engineering, and leading security operations center (SOC) teams. As the manager of Barracuda XDR's SOC Team, John has a unique view into the cybersecurity industry as he oversees initiatives including threat hunting, detection engineering, and the engineering of the Barracuda XDR platform, focused on automated remedia...
Jonathan Browning joined ChannelPro as the editorial director in 2023. His goal is to serve the channel community by covering the issues that matter most to MSPs, VARs, technology integrators, and IT consultants. He has successfully served in marketing, sales, and IT leadership positions throughout his career, including roughly six years in marketing director roles for Mas...
JonathanSmith serves as director of channel development for Hyperion Partners. He has led sales, operations, IoT, and wholesale organizations with multiple wireless carriers. Jonathan began his 25-year-plus career at Bell Atlantic Mobile(now Verizon) on the front line, working in the third-party distribution/sales organization. He has held various senior leadership roles at Nextel/Sprint, includin...
Jordan Burris is the Senior Director for Product Market Strategy - Public Sector at Socure. In this role, he partners with government leaders to develop and scale Socure's public sector offerings for identity verification and fraud detection. This includes leading efforts to promote and evangelize industry leading concepts in digital identity inclusion and fairness.
Joseph Brunsman is the founder of Brunsman Advisory Group, an insurance brokerage focusing on Tech E&O, E&O, and EPLI.Joe is an author, speaker, and insurance broker. He is a graduate of New Mexico Military Institute and the United States Naval Academy where he obtained a degree in Systems Engineering (Robotics). He specialized in database management and network security. In 2019, he compl...
Joshua Liberman is president and founder of Net Sciences Inc. Founded in 1995, NSI has secured hundreds of networks in New Mexico and beyond for decades. NSI is an MSP 501 winner, and the most security-focused MSP in New Mexico. Joshua is a former mountaineer and martial artist, and is a lifelong photographer, has traveled half of the world, and speaks several languages. He is a frequently publish...