Guest Contributors
Devin Partida
Devin Partida is the Editor-in-Chief of ReHack.com, and is especially interested in writing about finance and FinTech. Devin’s work has been featured on AT&T Cybersecurity, Hackernoon and Security Boulevard.
Gary Pica
Gary Pica is a pioneer in the managed services field. He is one of ChannelPro’s 20 industry visionaries and MSP Mentor’s most influential leaders. He has already built two top-performing MSPs. Today, Gary is the President of TruMethods, a training, peer, and accountability firm aimed at helping IT solution providers reach their full potential as MSPs and cloud providers. Gary shares the key ingredients that transformed his business and his life through his training process. Today, hundreds of IT providers around the world utilize the TruMethods business transformation framework.
Mark Copeman
Mark is a director of Wingman MSP Marketing – an agency dedicated to starting conversations with prospects for IT support businesses (MSPs) around the world.
He is also the author of the books, MSP Secrets Revealed (eps 1&2) and Helpdesk Habits, as well as being the creator of the online customer service video program, helpdeskhabits.com and the MSP M&A Blueprint program, mspmanda.com. He is a regular online and live conference speaker on the subject of customer service, the power of habits, customer experience, and online marketing for MSPs. His live MSP website teardowns are always a crowd pleaser.
Nate Freedman
As the founder of Tech Pro Marketing, Nate Freedman has more than two decades of marketing experience and manages a team that has worked on more than 1,000 different projects. After launching his first website project in 1998, he’s spent more than 5,000 hours working with IT businesses on new and innovative ways to guarantee the marketing results they need when they need them the most.
Richard Tubb
Richard Tubb is a blogger, speaker, and author from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the Northeast of England. He provides expert advice to help MSPs grow their IT business, and he has helped the owners of hundreds of MSPs to free up their time, concentrate on doing what is important, and make more money.
Derek Marin
Derek Marin founded Simple Selling, the agency that helps ambitious MSPs build brand power locally. Simple Selling’s turn-key service combines marketing with sales to attract and target growth-oriented organizations who bring profit, not headaches. Say goodbye to one-off marketing activities and over dependence on sales reps.
Clive LongBottom
Clive Longbottom is a UK-based independent commentator on the impact of technology on organizations and was a co-founder and service director at Quocirca. He has also been an ITC industry analyst for more than 20 years.
Cam Roberson
Cam Roberson is the director of the reseller channel for Beachhead Solutions, a company offering a PC and Mobile Device encryption service platform for MSPs.
Mike Vizard
Mike Vizard has covered IT for more than 25 years, and has edited or contributed to a number of tech publications including InfoWorld, eWeek, CRN, Baseline, ComputerWorld, TMCNet, and Digital Review. He currently blogs for IT Business Edge and contributes to CIOinsight, The Channel Insider, Programmableweb, and Slashdot. Mike blogs about emerging cloud technology for SmarterMSP.com.
Kevin Williams
Kevin Williams is a journalist based in Ohio. Williams has written for a variety of publications including the Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic and others. He first wrote about the online world in its nascent stages for the now defunct “Online Access” Magazine in the mid-90s. He writes about security-related topics for SmarterMSP.com.
Jason Howells
Jason Howells is the VP of Channels for Barracuda internationally. He has more than 20 years of sales and management experience driving profitable growth in IT security and data protection. He is passionate about building, leading, and motivating successful teams and business units, with a proven track record of delivering profitable results and exceeding targets.
Kate Johanns
Kate Johanns is a communications professional and freelance writer with more than 13 years of experience in publishing and marketing. She regularly writes our Tech Time Warp and Pioneers in Tech columns.
Anne Campbell
Anne Campbell is the public relations manager for Barracuda. She’s been with the organization since 2014, working on content and public relations for Barracuda. She started her career in newspaper and magazine journalism, and she brings that editorial point of view the work she does, using it to help craft compelling stories.
