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.
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.
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.
Wayne Goeckeritz is a seasoned cybersecurity channel executive serving as Security Channel Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he supports the firm's Go-To-Market Network across venture teams. With a career spanning decades in IT channel sales, he has held leadership roles at Cisco, Juniper, Crossbeam, NetWitness, Prolexic, Demisto, Palo Alto Networks, Siemplify (acquired by Google Cloud), and SentinelOne, building a reputation as one of the most impactful channel leaders in the cybersecurity industry.