February 22 - 23, 2022
GreatAmerica Building
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Juan’s investment in improving service delivery through effective and efficient use of technology has been a pillar in his near 30 year career working to develop the IT industry. He has created effective business models for delivering IT based services and promoted online development opportunities to increase individual self-service capabilities to transform technology to be simple, flexible, and responsive to the customers’ needs.
A part of the select few to write the CompTIA A+, Network +, Security + Tests, Juan also sits on the CompTIA Subject Matter Expert Technical Advisory Board, CompTIA Channel Development Advisory Council, Forbes Magazine Technology Council, Konica Minolta Global IT Services Council, WatchGuard advisory board, and as a Channel Futures MSP mentor.
As the winner of Continuum MSP’s Shark Tank for best security and services presentation, a 2019 HP DaaS Innovator of the Year, ImageNet’s HP 2019 Partner of the Year, Continuum’s 2019 “Growth Partner of the Year” and “Hyper Growth Partner,” Juan’s commitment to developing the future of the IT channel sets the stage for his Making “IT” Simple approach.
Juan Fernandez
Co-Founder & CEO of the MSP Growth Coalition
Co-Founder & Chief Visionary of Start Grow Manage
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Joe Rojas
Co-Founder & Chief Visionary of Start Grow Manage
Start Grow Manage was created to give entrepreneurs the tools and support they need to build a better business faster. Based in New York City, Joe is also the author of How Entrepreneurs Thrive: Your RoadMAPP to Success: Mentor Assisted Power Planning - 7 Tools for Growth. He empowers entrepreneurs to overcome the challenges of creating a profitable growing business.
As a serial entrepreneur himself, Joe has faced the challenge of making new and growing businesses work. His career started in the military where he became an expert in information technology, eventually forming his own managed services company. Through that experience, he discovered the formula for business growth, and learned that entrepreneurs are good at what they do but struggle to build a business.
Chief Strategist & Business Consultant Cascadia Business Development Group, LLC
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Colleen Rudio
Chief Strategist & Business Consultant
Cascadia Business Development Group, LLC
Colleen understands the importance of making a strategic connection between human impact and bottom-line profitability. As Chief Strategist and Business Consultant, she reviews, designs, and facilitates operational improvement initiatives for clients, resulting in stabilized functions, reduced expenses, increased human performance, expanded revenue opportunities and increased client satisfaction. Combining over 25 years of experience with a national business network, Colleen launched Cascadia Business Development Group, LLC to deliver services that enhance an organization’s people, performance, and profitability.
Colleen has served as Interim CEO for an international business organization, Interim General Manager for a rural telecommunications company, Interim Director of Corporate Group Solutions for an international education company, Executive Vice President for a statewide financial institution, Senior Business Development Officer and Director of Marketing for a statewide CPA firm and served as a fully licensed insurance agent for a statewide agency. During this time, she gained extensive leadership experience in sales and service delivery, compliance and risk management, financial and lean operations, team development, human resource and performance management, training integration and program development, new product and service development, marketing/advertising plan development and implementation, and profitability enhancement. Her broad industry experience provides an understanding of both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations at the local, state, and national levels.
In addition to her commitment to organizational development, Colleen serves as National Board Member for the Council for Better Business Bureau, past-president of Missoula Downtown Foundation, Board Member for the Northwest Better Business Bureau for Oregon/Washington/Montana/Idaho/Alaska, Board Member, past Board Member and Secretary for Montana Community Development Corporation, and actively volunteers for numerous local and statewide non-profit organizations. She is also an independent business representative and graduate of the 2012-13 Montana Leadership Program.
Managing Partner at ProCFO Partners
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Nelson Tepfer
Managing Partner at ProCFO Partners
Nelson has spent his entire career helping companies: Helping them grow. Helping them scale. Helping them thrive. Helping them overcome their challenges on their path to success. His capability for transformational contribution is at the core of his skills a financial officer.
Having held leadership roles across organizations large and small, Nelson’s experience spans nearly a dozen industries, ranging from healthcare to manufacturing, logistics to transportation, real estate to digital marketing, legal and other professional services. Nelson served has served in roles of CFO, interim CFO, COO, and consultant; working with companies of all sizes to achieve their strategic, financial, and operational goals. He earned a MBA in Corporate Finance, Financial Instruments and Markets, and Accounting from New York University’s Stern School of Business. This experience has culminated in the creation of ProCFO Partners, where Nelson’s founding principles inform every decision.
Nelson believes that every company deserves an expert CFO to guide them along their way, and every expert CFO deserves a platform to practice in a way that is meaningful to them.
Co-Founder of the MSP Growth Coalition
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With over 23 years in the IT industry – ranging from help desk operation to IT architecture – Carlos has focused on process management, operational excellence, and customer experience.
Through this experience and with the help of his team, Carlos was able to create a multi-million dollar MSP from the ground-up within seven years. With a concentration on digital transformation, he curated a formula for success through proper vCIO processes and procedures. Through advising and coaching, Carlos was able to enact growth – not only in MSP profitability – but ultimately with a repeatable process of success delivery in customer experience. As a result, the vCIO School was created to develop and mentor successful vCIOs and TAMs to stabilize and enhance MSP growth and customer success.
Dates: Tuesday, February 22 - Wednesday, February 23
Location: GreatAmerica Building, 625 First Street SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Cost: $995 per person (payment will be invoiced)
Face coverings are required for all persons inside the GreatAmerica building. Masks can be removed when seated in meetings rooms, but we ask that distance be maximized among attendees.
This event will be limited to a maximum of 20 people.
The MSP Growth Coalition was formed to bring together the best resources with years of successful business and MSP experience dedicated to the success of its customers.
The primary goal of the MSP Growth Coalition is to accelerate owners' and managers' ability to form and run highly effective businesses and the Coalition is committed to helping modern business owners in all areas of growth with a predictable success model.
“We are here to help build a new era of business owners that have all the tools they need to be successful in all areas of business. The Growth Coalition was built on that foundation and designed to create a unique experience where business owners are able to grow their business with predictable success in all areas of their business in one place, most importantly with people that care only about your growth and success.” - Juan Fernandez, Co-Founder & CEO
Collabrance LLC, a GreatAmerica company, is a privately owned Master MSP located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Collabrance helps managed services providers achieve greater success through its portfolio of IT solutions and white-labeled end-customer support. Collabrance has been named consecutively as a Top 250 MSSP by MSSP Alert and was named in the top 200 on the 2021 MSP 501 list. In addition to providing a U.S.-based, live-answer Service Desk and NOC, Collabrance builds strategic, long-term customer relationships through value-added sales support, customer onboarding and ongoing business planning.
Questions about this event, or anything else? Email sales@collabrance.com.