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 Gavin Garbutt
Co-Founder, President and CEO
N-able Technologies
An entrepreneur and award-winning IT executive, Gavin Garbutt is widely recognized as a managed services visionary who has played a key role in carving out this emerging market space. Under his leadership, N-able Technologies has set new industry benchmarks for technology, innovation and ROI, which together earned it the #1-rating for managed services solutions from CRN magazine in September 2007.
N-able is the fourth successful start-up where Gavin has been a founding executive. He has been involved in all aspects of corporate strategy, restructuring and corporate finance, including equity and debt financing for private and public companies. His work with N-able has earned him industry accolades including being named to CRN’s 2007 list of the Top 25 Most Innovative Channel Executives and 2006 list of the Top 25 Most Influential Channel Executives.
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 Todd Brooks
Americas Marketing Group
Intel Corporation
Todd Brooks has been with Intel for 17 years. During that time, he led market development efforts in faxmodems, microprocessor upgrades, video conferencing and e-Business. Prior to that, he started and sold a small software company. Currently, Todd works with software companies and computer manufacturers focused on remote manageability for the small business segment.
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 Tad Hamilton
Director of Information Technology
Cellular South
Tad Hamilton has worked for Cellular South for more than eight years and has more than 20 years of experience in communications and Information Technology. During his time with Cellular South, his areas of responsibility have included data center operations, client support, administration of systems, databases and data networks. Prior to his current role at Cellular South, Tad held technical management positions with the U.S. Army, CellularOne and Heatcraft. He is a graduate of the University of Mississippi.
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 J. Michael Drake
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
masterIT
J. Michael Drake is masterIT’s founder, chairman and CEO. masterIT delivers technology as a service to the sub-1,000 seat SMB market with a portfolio of solutions including remote monitoring and management, remote back up and data security, internet services and IT-as-a-Utility™, the industry pioneering methodology in which IT infrastructure is provided and refreshed as part of a fixed-fee service.
Prior to founding masterIT, Michael served as President/CEO of Econocom USA, Inc. from 1993 – 2005. EUSA specialized in technology finance and asset management solutions that allow businesses to regain control of their IT budgets and assets. Under Michael’s direction Econocom USA, Inc. grew its IT portfolio to over $100 million in 48 states. Econocom USA sold its operations to The Meridian Group in Chicago effective December, 2005.
Before joining Econocom, Michael was employed by WynBanc Savings, FSB in Wynne, Arkansas as Vice President of Lending and Century Federal, FSB in Memphis and Trenton, TN where he was recruited by the Resolution Trust Corporation to manage the mortgage operation after a regulatory takeover in December 1987. |
