Luis is a Senior Director of Marketing at SolarWinds MSP, and also the CEO of Vancouver-based Ook, a 6-person MSP that caters to small and medium businesses. Ook is 2019 recipient of the Canada Growth 500 list (#25 in Information Technology, #22 in Vancouver). Ook has appeared on the CRN MSP 500 and Pioneer 250 (2019) lists, as well as ChannelFutures’ MSP 501. A consummate IT professional and product strategist, Luis presents frequently on MSP best practices, QBRs, strategies, and more. Fun fact: He played keyboards on tour with Colombian pop star Shakira, and still loves playing the occasional jazz gig.

Matt provides overall leadership and strategic direction for information technology environments throughout Iconic IT. A technology veteran with expertise in virtualization, platform as a service (PaaS), cloud security, and technology transformations, he is one of only 141,600 IT specialists in the world to have achieved the elite Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.

Mr. Lee participates actively on major partners’ advisory boards, as well as service delivery councils. He was the recipient of the Wichita Business Journal’s 2016 CIO award. Mr. Lee has been a featured presenter for industry events such as Continuums Navigate and Watchguard Partner Summit. He participated on the Green Clouds Partner Summit 2019 Pac. Under Matt’s technological direction Choose Networks was ranked in the top 50% in the prestigious ChannelPro 2019 501 list.

Juan Fernandez’s entire career is dedicated to improving service delivery by embracing effective and efficient use of technology through a vision of technology, security, and compliance for small business, government, education, healthcare, and financial industries. He is part of the select group who writes the CompTIA A+, Network +, Security + Tests, and sits on the CompTIA Subject Matter Expert Technical Advisory board and the CompTIA Channel Advisor board.

He also sits on the Forbes Magazine Technology Council, Konica Minolta Global IT Services Council, Unitrends Partner Advisory board, HP DaaS Advisory Committee for Device-as-a-Service, WatchGuard Advisory Board and serves as a Channel Futures MSP Mentor and works with many other channel companies to develop the future of technology and XaaS models.

Todd Kane, the Founder of Evolved Management Consulting, has spent over a decade creating a management framework that has resulted in massive value for the companies he has worked with. Todd has led groups for several of largest and high growth companies in western Canada. Experience with major businesses like EnCana, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd, WestJet, Bell Canada, Long View Systems, and Fully Managed.

Accomplished business leader with 20+ years of experience. Strong technical background, award winning leader, and executive at industry leading technology organizations.His work has been recognized with numerous awards, both technical and business.

Zeus Kerravala is the founder and Principal Analyst with ZK Research. Kerravala provides a mix of tactical advice to help his clients in the current business climate and long term strategic advice. Prior to ZK Research, Zeus Kerravala spent 10 years as an analyst at Yankee Group, joining as a Director, leaving as a Senior VP and Distinguished Research Fellow. Before Yankee Group, Kerravala held technical positions at Greenwich Technology Partners (GTP) where he worked with Johna Til Johnson, the founder of Nemertes Research. Ferris, Baker Watts and Alex. Brown and Sons, Incorporated.

Kevin started working at Lime Networks in 2008, to bring order to the technological part of the company and make strategic choices while doing so. He believes IT has to be simple for everyone. Next to running his MSP he blogs at https://cyberdrain.com to help MSPs achieve better synergy via automation, and speaks at events, webinars and in-person events. He has received several MSP industry awards and a Microsoft MVP award and advises upper management of most RMM vendors to help them match the expectations of managed services providers to their products, hoping to create a better market for MSPs all around the world.

Paul Green is the founder of MSP Marketing, a UK organisation that exists to help the owners of MSPs grow their businesses, increase net profit, and take more holidays. He’s the author of ‘Updating Servers Doesn’t Grow Your Business’. He was a newspaper journalist and radio presenter for 13 years, before starting his first business in 2005. He sold that in a premium exit in 2016.

Paul is passionate about helping MSP owners and managers to create more net profit, in order to have a better lifestyle.

Salman is a software engineer, startup founder, writer, and artist. He currently splits his time between working with startups and exploring creative projects. Salman writes a newsletter, Quick Brown Fox, on creativity, learning in public, and embracing a polymath life. His past roles include: founding engineer at Involver (acquired by Oracle), co-founder and CTO of the healthcare startup Rested, and senior engineer at Facebook.

Colin has spent the past 20 years deeply embedded in the technology field. Founding both XCEL Professional Services (MSP) and Passportal, Colin led both organizations as the top executive through several consecutive years of triple-digit growth from $0 to millions in annual recurring revenue until their acquisitions by F12.net and SolarWinds respectively taking both businesses from founding to successful exit in just 10 years. He is the Founder & CEO of Gradient MSP, focused on giving vision and voice to MSPs both small and large. Colin is a technology innovator, passionate leader, and professional speaker focused on advising entrepreneurs how to grow, expand, and mature their businesses.

Dawn Desjardins is the Deputy Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) responsible for the macroeconomic and interest rate forecasts for Canada and the U.S., and her team produces insightful economic analysis for RBC’s clients through a variety of publications and presentations.

Brian J. Fox is an entrepreneur, technologist, and investor. The first employee of the Free Software Foundation, Fox created the Bash shell, a key component of virtually every server and desktop computer worldwide. Currently, Fox serves on the board of Orchid Labs, a blockchain company that he co-founded in July 2017; he is a founding partner in Kano.ONE, an advisory organization that helps blockchain-based startups; he is a managing partner in Santa Barbara-based Opus Logica, a venture technology company; and he is involved in the push to secure U.S. election systems with open-source voting technology. Fox has raised capital from tier one VCs, including 6oz Sequoia Capital and others.