Alex Brown, CEO, founded 10th Magnitude in 2010 because he saw the ground-breaking business agility and economic benefits cloud applications offer. "I believe cloud is the most profound change we've seen in IT since the Internet. It's letting businesses tackle many new opportunities and will unleash a renaissance of business software development and innovation".Brown combines an undergrad degree from Oberlin in economics and an MBA from Yale. His experience includes: EVP - Arrowstream, VP Univa and Director, Dell Inc., for the US and Asia-Pacific.
Allen Falcon is a technologist and entrepreneur with more than 25 years in the industry. Allen's background includes a unique history of software development and marketing, CIO-level consulting, and entrepreneurship. In 2006, Allen launched the firm no known as Cumulus Global, recognizing the need among small businesses for better managed IT services. Allen leads a team of cloud computing experts helping businesses, non-profits, schools, and local governments move to Google Apps and related cloud services. Allen and Cumulus have been recognized as an innovator by CRN and regional business media.
Sean founded Managed Solution in 2002 after receiving his degree from the University of San Diego. Sean recognized the need for consultative IT services for small-to-medium and enterprise clients. With little capital, Sean and his dedicated team grew the company organically to success. Within 3 years, the company was recognized as one of San Diego’s 40 fastest growing companies, awarded one of the 40 companies with owners under 40 years old and recognized as the 27th fastest growing IT company in Southern California.
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Jason A. Lambiris is Chief Executive Officer of Apex Digital Solutions, a leading provider of Managed, Traditional and Green IT Services based outside of Detroit, Michigan. Lambiris founded Apex in 1998 with a vision of building a company that is committed to excellence, personal and professional growth, and shared success through innovation, integrity, respect and teamwork. Mr. Lambiris plays an active role as a trusted advisor and virtual CIO/CTO for many of his clients and focuses on achieving the proper balance of people, process and technology with their business goals.
Forbes contributor and Featured Technology Futurist on CNN, Ian Khan is a highly sought after emerging technology expert. A three times TEDx Speaker & Author, Ian has impacted over 5000 organizations in his career of 20 years to help organizations understand emerging technology and the steps they can take to create limitless value. An advocate of emerging technologies, Ian helps organizations gain a competitive advantage in today’s era of disruption and rapid change. His core speaking topics include technology trends, industry future outlook and the role of IoT, AI & Blockchain in shaping our future.
Ian is also the author of over 8 books. Some of these include Cloud Wars, The Internet of Things (IoT) A Concise Introduction, The Internet of Things & the Future of Innovation, Make Me Like You, 21 Steps & Get Ahead and Meaningful Conversations. A highly sought after expert, Ian has dedicated the last 20 years evangelizing technologies such as Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, and emerging tech. Though his career he Ian has worked with Information Technology startups, SAP EBS Partner Companies and key Microsoft partner ecosystem providers. Through his two decades of working in the industry he also gained a complete understanding of where organizations face maximum challenge as his roles included Sales, Business Development, Management, to managing global marketing teams.
Ian is also an active speaker and spends more than 200 days per year on the road speaking at industry conferences. He is also a frequent contributor to industry publications and his work has appeared in McGraw Hill Education, Huffington Post, & Techvibes.
Michael Rogers is a best-selling author, technology pioneer and futurist, who also serves as futurist-in-residence for The New York Times. His experience includes working with companies such as, FedEx, Boeing and NBC Universal to Microsoft, Pfizer and Siemens, focusing on how companies can think about the future in useful ways. Rogers speaks to audiences worldwide and is a regular guest on radio and television.
Rogers career began as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine. He co-founded Outside magazine and then launched Newsweek’s technology column, winning numerous journalism awards. For ten years he was vice president of The Washington Post Company's new media division, where he led both the newspaper and Newsweek into the new century and earning patents for multimedia technology. Rogers is also a best-selling novelist whose books have been published worldwide, chosen for the book-of-the-month club and optioned for film.
Rogers studied physics and creative writing at Stanford University, with additional studies in finance and management at the Stanford Business School Executive Program. He lives in New York City and is currently working on book and television projects.
Mike Hoffmann is a Principal at Thoma Bravo. Based in San Francisco, he joined the firm in 2014. Previously he was an investor with the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners. Prior to Providence, he was an investment banker with Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Mike holds an MBA from Stanford University and graduated with an AB degree in Economics from Harvard University.
Thoma Bravo is a leading private equity firm with a 40-year history, including over $30 billion in investor commitments, and a focus on investing in software and technology companies. Thoma Bravo pioneered the buy-and-build investment strategy, and first applied this strategy to the software and technology industries nearly 20 years ago. Since then, the firm has acquired more than 200 software and technology companies representing over $50 billion of value. Thoma Bravo’s investment philosophy is centered around working collaboratively with existing management teams to drive superior operating results and innovation.
International keynote speaker Nancy Rademaker likes to share her first-hand experiences straight from the places where technology is shaping our future.
Rademaker has over 20 years of experience in how technology was and is transforming society, working for different IT companies, amongst which five years for Microsoft in the Netherlands and Europe. She loves to share her passion for technology and combines that valuable inside information with her experience in training and education. She has always been enthusiastic about people and customer-centric strategies. She likes to focus on how technology influences people's behavior and how it helps them to share knowledge and to create and innovate.
Rademaker is a highly rated and motivating international business speaker, she has energized many roundtables, boardroom sessions and corporate events with bold presentations on the topics of digital transformation, extreme customer centricity, disruption, AI, business model change and leadership.
In 2016 she joined nexxworks as a partner. Together with Peter Hinssen, Steven Van Belleghem and Rik Vera, she inspires companies how to act upon The Day After Tomorrow. Nancy travels the world taking business leaders to innovation hubs like Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Berlin . . . using that first-hand inspiration as a continuous and valuable source, thus keeping the keynote content and examples on the cutting edge of the latest technologies, developments and disruptive new business models.
Managed services are at the heart of the IT solution provider business, generating a staggering $158 billion in sales. Partners at the forefront of managed services are rapidly expanding by offering customers new services and solutions. NexGen caters to this critical segment of the channel, with a conference custom designed for elite services-led and cloud-focused managed services professionals.
These MSPs — whether pure play or mainstream IT service providers — are a step ahead of the pack. They are changing the game. Their focus is to drive recurring revenue, increase margins and add strategic partners.
MSPs attend NexGen to:
Stay ahead of technology services and industry trends
Identify strategic partners to fuel their growth
Engage with peers for feedback and validation of their strategies
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