NIC, operating as NIC IT Partner, is a Los Angeles-based managed service provider (MSP) that has delivered IT support, cybersecurity, cloud hosting, and backup and disaster recovery since 2002. Built for small and mid-sized businesses across regulated industries - healthcare, legal, finance, construction, and nonprofits - NIC runs a 24/7/365 operation with a tiered technical team, helping clients meet compliance requirements like HIPAA and CMMC while keeping their networks running.
ProTelesis Corporation is a San Diego-based managed services provider (MSP/MSSP) born from the 2019 merger of two California telecom heavyweights - Protel (a leading Mitel Blue dealer) and Xtelesis (a leading Mitel Orange dealer). The company has evolved from a traditional phone-system business into a full-stack technology partner delivering managed IT, cybersecurity, unified communications, cloud, structured cabling, and managed detection and response. With offices across California, the Pacific Northwest, Utah, and Bangalore, it supports thousands of clients and hundreds of thousands of endpoints, with a focus on biotech, defense, and growing small-to-midsize businesses.
TeamLogic IT is a North American managed IT services provider that operates as a franchise network of locally owned, nationally backed offices. It delivers managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud, business continuity and IT consulting to small and mid-sized businesses, pairing on-the-ground local owners with enterprise-grade tools, 24/7 monitoring and a virtual-CIO advisory model. Founded in 2004 and owned by Franchise Services, Inc., the brand has grown to roughly 300+ locations and is consistently ranked among the world's top MSPs.
NinjaOne is an Austin-based software company that makes an automated, cloud-native endpoint management platform used by IT teams and managed service providers to monitor, secure, patch, back up and control laptops, servers, mobile devices and SaaS data from a single console. Founded in 2013 as NinjaRMM, it now serves more than 30,000 customers and manages over 5 million endpoints, and in 2025 raised $500 million in Series C extensions at a $5 billion valuation while remaining founder-led and debt-free.
Vadim Vladimirskiy is the co-founder and CEO of Nerdio, a Chicago software company that automates and cuts the cost of running Microsoft cloud desktops for thousands of organizations across more than 50 countries. He emigrated from Ukraine at 13, started his first IT consultancy in high school, and spent fifteen years running an MSP before turning his internal tooling into a product. In March 2025 Nerdio raised a $500 million Series C from General Atlantic at a valuation above $1 billion, and the company crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue by mid-2025.
Trustifi is a cloud-based, AI-driven email security company that protects organizations from phishing, business email compromise, data leaks and compliance failures. Its one-stack platform pairs Inbound Shield threat detection with Outbound Shield one-click encryption and One-Click Compliance, making enterprise-grade email protection simple enough for small businesses and the managed service providers that serve them. Founded by Rom Hendler and Idan Udi Edry, the company raised a $25M Series A in 2025 to scale its channel-first, AI-powered platform.
Rom Hendler is the CEO and co-founder of Trustifi, an AI-driven email security platform that wraps encryption, data loss prevention, and security awareness training into one product built for managed service providers and mid-sized businesses. He took an unlikely path to cybersecurity, spending more than a decade as a marketing and operations executive in the casino and hospitality world (CMO at Las Vegas Sands, leadership roles at The Venetian and The Palazzo) before building a travel-tech startup and then turning his attention to the most-attacked surface in the enterprise: the inbox. Under his leadership Trustifi raised a $25M Series A in June 2025 led by Camber Partners and Hendler has been named a CRN Channel Chief four years running.
Victor Lopez is the co-founder and CEO of FlexPoint, a payments-automation platform built for managed service providers and the small businesses they serve. A former finance lawyer turned private-credit principal at Owl Rock/Blue Owl Capital, he left the world of middle-market lending to attack a less glamorous problem: getting small businesses paid faster. Founded in 2022 and launched in 2023, FlexPoint raised a $12M Series A led by Foundry Group in 2025 and now handles payments for tens of thousands of businesses.
Blackpoint Cyber is a Denver-based managed detection and response (MDR) company built by former NSA cyber operations experts who decided the best way to defend businesses was to think like the attackers they used to be. Founded in 2014, the company serves managed service providers (MSPs) with a 24/7 security operations center, proprietary threat detection technology, and its unified CompassOne platform - combining endpoint, identity, cloud, and compliance tools into a single dashboard. With $210M in total funding and 23 G2 badges in Spring 2025, Blackpoint has become one of the most recognized MDR providers in the MSP channel, locking compromised Microsoft 365 accounts roughly every 30 minutes.
Chris Babel is the Chief Executive Officer of Arcserve, an Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based data protection and cyber resilience company serving over 235,000 customers worldwide. With more than two decades navigating the intersection of security, privacy, and enterprise technology, Babel brought a rare cross-disciplinary resume to Arcserve in May 2024: he led TrustArc as CEO for over a decade, transforming a browser-padlock certification company into a global privacy compliance platform, and before that spent years at VeriSign running authentication services across 150-plus countries. His mandate at Arcserve is to rebuild partner trust, simplify a sprawling product catalog, and position the company as the go-to data resilience solution for SMBs and mid-market enterprises facing relentless ransomware threats.
Joe Morin is the Founder and CEO of CyFlare, a top-ranked managed security operations company he built from the ground up in 2017. With over 20 years in cybersecurity, Morin spent years in sales engineering and alliance roles at companies like Zscaler, Forcepoint, and Barracuda Networks before channeling that cross-vendor perspective into CyFlare's signature philosophy: don't pick one platform, wire them all together. Under his leadership, CyFlare achieved 854% growth over three years, landed on the Inc. 5000 list twice, ranked #5 on CRN's 2025 Fast Growth 150, and is consistently recognized as a Top 20 Global MSSP. His LinkedIn handle - cyberbatman - says a lot about the man.
Mike Promotico is the President and CEO of ProTelesis Corporation, a San Diego-based managed IT services provider he has helped build into a West Coast powerhouse over 37+ years in telecommunications. Starting as a principal at INet Corp in 1987 and helping grow it into one of North America's largest Mitel resellers, Promotico has spent three decades bridging the gap between traditional telecom and modern IT - co-founding Technology Assurance Group, leading Standard Tel Networks, and ultimately guiding ProTelesis through eight strategic acquisitions including the 2025 cyber-physical convergence play with Amer-X Security. Under his leadership, ProTelesis manages over 100,000 endpoints for more than 10,000 customers across the U.S.
Max Adams is the CEO of Executech, one of the largest managed IT services providers in the western United States and a flagship company within Evergreen Services Group's portfolio. A licensed CPA who cut his teeth at KPMG auditing clients with up to $60 billion in revenue, Adams joined Executech as CFO in 2023 and climbed to CEO, bringing a finance-first discipline to an industry often run by technologists. He leads a 240-person team serving 700+ organizations with a 97.7% customer satisfaction rate, while advocating loudly for AI and automation as the dividing line between MSPs that survive and those that don't.
Walter Edmondson is the President and CEO of TeamLogic IT's Campbell, California franchise, which he founded in 2010 to deliver enterprise-grade managed IT services to small and mid-sized businesses across the Bay Area and beyond. A Santa Clara University electrical engineering alumnus, he spent over 25 years in the semiconductor industry at companies including National Semiconductor, Plus Logic, Seeq (acquired by LSI Logic for $106M), and Xilinx, where he served as Senior Director and helped build the operational and production engineering models that drove the company's high-volume FPGA success. Today he leads a practice that covers cybersecurity, cloud computing, backup and disaster recovery, and IT consulting for clients ranging from nonprofits to healthcare and financial services firms.
Peter Doyle is Co-Founder and CEO of Treeline, a San Francisco-based startup reimagining corporate IT operations through AI and software automation. A decade-long venture capitalist at Accel who backed companies like PagerDuty, Heptio, and ServiceChannel, Doyle made the leap to operator in 2024. Treeline - backed by $25 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz - is building what Doyle calls a 'modern IT operating system': an AI-first alternative to the legacy managed service provider model that still powers most of the world's corporate IT infrastructure.
Gagan Singh is the Chief Executive Officer of Blackpoint Cyber, a Denver-based managed detection and response (MDR) company protecting small and mid-sized businesses through a channel-first MSP model. With 20+ years leading product and operations at McAfee, NortonLifeLock, and Avast, Singh joined Blackpoint in June 2025 with a clear thesis: small businesses are the most underserved, most targeted segment in cybersecurity, and the MSPs serving them are the true front line. Under his leadership, Blackpoint has launched CompassOne, a unified security posture platform, and continues expanding internationally while building on a claim that no partner or their customers has suffered a ransomware incident under Blackpoint's watch.