Arnie Bellini is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConnectWise. Arnie is the chief visionary behind the company's long-standing success in the information technology industry. Today, ConnectWise is a leading provider of IT services to companies in the Tampa market and the publisher of the industry's most widely-used professional services automation (PSA) software. Arnie's passion to continually drive operational efficiencies and deliver excellent customer service make ConnectWise one of the most admired companies in the IT services market. An out-spoken advocate for IT solution providers worldwide and three-time CRN Channel Chief, Arnie Bellini is the leader of the IT Nation. Arnie can be found sharing his wisdom at ConnectWise regional user group meetings, on ConnectWise TV, and on the ConnectWise blog.
Daniel Burrus
Daniel Burrus, considered one of the world's leading technology forecasters and business strategists, will be a keynote speaker at the highly anticipated IT Nation 2011, the 7th annual ConnectWise Partner Summit. As the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology-driven trends, he helps clients understand how technological, social and business forces are converging to create enormous untapped opportunities. He is a strategic advisor to leaders from Fortune 500 companies and the author of six books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller Flash Foresight, the highly acclaimed book Technotrends, and a monthly newsletter. A frequent guest on national television including Larry King Live and Lou Dobbs, CNN, CNBC, CNBC Asia and Bloomberg, Burrus was called one of the top three business gurus in the nation by the New York Times.
Jim Camp
Jim Camp is the Founder and CEO of the Camp Negotiation Institute. Within the institute The Camp System of Negotiation is trained to mastery. The Camp Credential for Negotiation Team Member, Team Leader and Chief Negotiation Officer is the new benchmark in negotiation excellence. His book "Start With No" is not only a Wall Street Journal bestseller but is now printed in 14 languages. Camp has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Inc. CNN, Reuters, MSNBC and many other media sources. He is married with 5 adult children and 8 grandchildren.
Paul Dippell
Paul Dippell brings more than twenty-five years of experience building, running, acquiring and integrating IT Solutions companies. Mr. Dippell is often a featured speaker at IT Solutions events on successful channel business model strategy and operations, as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Dippell is founder/CEO of Service Leadership, Inc. a leading Solution Provider consultancy and publisher of the Service Leadership Index® benchmarks of Solution Provider performance. Additionally, Service Leadership advises leading global IT manufacturers on channel management and strategies, and SMB and mid-market customer product and services strategies.
Prior to founding Service Leadership in 2001, at USBX Advisory Services, a leading mid-market mergers and acquisitions advisory firm, Mr. Dippell established the IT solutions vertical for this new M&A firm and closed its inaugural transaction.
At All Covered, Inc., the largest provider of IT services to small businesses nationwide and a leading consolidator in the sector, Mr. Dippell was Vice President of Mergers, Acquisitions and Integration, responsible for successfully acquiring and integrating more than fifteen IT services companies in 18 months.
At Xerox Connect (NYSE: XRX), as Vice-President of Managed Services, Mr. Dippell was responsible for serving Fortune 500 customers worldwide with Managed Services. Simultaneously, he was Vice President of the South Central region.
Before Xerox, Mr. Dippell was at CompuCom (NASDAQ: CMPC) for seven years, becoming Vice President of Service Operations Consulting for this multi-billion dollar IT solutions provider. There, he led the sales and development of advanced IT services and participated in four strategic acquisitions.
Jeremy Epstein
A "Marketing Navigator for the Attention Economy," Jeremy helps companies prepare for and exploit the changes brought about by the advent of social technologies. Jeremy spent almost 6 years at Microsoft developing revenue-driving communities and authoring one of Microsoft's most successful marketing blogs (over 110k views/month).
A two-time entrepreneur, with international business experience in Germany and Japan, and a passionate technologist (don't get him started!), Jeremy's clients include Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Yes To Carrots, Global 360 (a 2010 Microsoft Partner of the Year), Pinstripe, and two NY Times best-selling authors, Dan Pink and Gretchen Rubin (who hit #1).
In addition to numerous keynote presentations around the US and the world (India, Brazil, Russia, Israel, Canada, Germany, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile), Jeremy is the author of "It's All on the Blog, Don't Buy the Book!" (available on Amazon) as well as three e-Books "Community Driven Marketing: The Power of the Raving Fan","Dandelion Marketing: How to Increase Your Odds of Going Viral", and "10 Ways to Cultivate Your Community: How to Create Genuine Fans for the Long Term."
A native of Washington, DC Jeremy is married to a former NYC Narcotics prosecutor (no, that's not how they met) and has 3 children under the age of 7 (so coffee is a food group!) Not that he has much time, but as a fun tidbit, Jeremy has a lapel pin collection that numbers over 700 (all categorized in Excel, of course!).
Holly Green
Holly Green is CEO of The Human Factor, Inc., and helps business leaders and their companies achieve higher levels of performance and profitability. She helps organizations get clear on what winning looks like, and then how to align the resources and energy of the organization to get there.
An experienced business leader and behavioral scientist, Holly has a rare combination of extensive academic training and in-the-trenches experience working in and leading organizations. She was previously President of The Ken Blanchard Company and LumMed, Inc. Holly's clients include AT&T, Microsoft, Expedia, Nokia, and Google as well as numerous small and midsized businesses.
Holly's top selling book, More Than a Minute: How to be an Effective Leader & Manager in Today's Changing World (available in 9 languages globally) goes beyond the theory of leading and managing by providing practical, action-oriented information. She is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and a highlighted expert on numerous leadership, strategic planning, and innovation blogs. Holly has contributed to two other best-selling books, Shift Happens, and A Cup of Cappuccino, Vol. II.
Holly holds a Bachelor's degree in behavioral sciences and a Master of Science degree in organization development from American University in Washington, D.C. Her postgraduate studies are in neurophysiology. She is an adjunct professor at Webster University, teaching courses in the graduate program. She also teaches in the executive education program at San Diego State University, and is the founder of the Management Development Institute offered there.
Bradley Gross
Bradley Gross is the founding partner of the Law Office of Bradley Gross, P.A., a law firm that focuses exclusively on transactions involving managed service providers, VARs, technology solution resellers, cloud solution providers, IT professionals and technology companies worldwide.
A former Chair and managing partner of the Intellectual Property Law Department of one of the largest law firms in the State of Florida, Bradley sits on the Board of Directors of several technology companies, and acts as general counsel for several SaaS and HaaS solution providers throughout the United States.
Bradley is a leading legal authority in the area of cloud computing transactions, and has twice been named to the list of Superlawyers in the area of IT Law. He has served as a Technology Law subject matter expert for Governor Bush, and was a Technology Law correspondent for NBC television. Brad maintains a blog devoted to issues that impact the MSP industry at www.BradleyGross.com.
Steven S. Little
Steven S. Little is a much sought after expert on the subject of business growth and the future of opportunity. As a former President of three fast-growth companies, he now advises thousands of leaders of growing organizations and communities each year. For over ten years, Steve was also a Senior Consultant for Inc. magazine.
He is the author of the best-selling books
"The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth" (Wiley, 2005)
"The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies, and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth" (Wiley, 2008)
"Duck and (re)Cover: The Embattled Business Owners Guide to Survival and Growth" (Wiley 2009)
From 1988 thru 1999, Steve was President of three fast growth companies. Both FAME, Inc. and Erb Industries, Inc. achieved profitable growth rates of over 500% during Mr. Little's tenure. Steve is a graduate of Miami University and has studied at The Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland and The University of Houston's Future Studies Program. Steve and family live in sunny Wilmington, NC and historic Merida, Mexico.
Luke Mysse
Luke Mysse calls himself a "business minded creative" because of his strategic approach to generating revenue for his clients. Though he has worked with large national brands he much prefers meeting with small business owners to discuss how branding can play a part. He is a frequent speaker, blogger and has been in business for over 14 years.
Gary Pica
Gary Pica is a pioneer in the managed services field. His company, Dynamic Digital Services, was "early to market" in the MSP arena. It quickly became one of the fastest growing MSPs in the country, with over 7,000 endpoints under management, generating over $500,000 of monthly reoccurring revenue. Gary's company was acquired by mindSHIFT Technologies in 2005, where his sales and operational methodologies help propel mindSHIFT to one of the nation's largest MSP/CSPs.
He has since launched TruMethods, a coaching peer and accountability firm aimed at helping IT solution providers reach their full potential as MSP's and cloud providers. TruMethods provides a proven, repeatable process to transform your business by demonstrating the right approach to leadership, solution packaging, sales process and operations via online tools, webinars and Gary's personal guidance. The key ingredients that transformed Gary's business and life are shared throughout the process. Today over 500 IT providers around the world utilize the TruMethods business transformation process.
