PANEL SESSION

Speakers Panel Debate: Innovation, Consolidation and Automation – the way forward

As the Managed Services market matures MSPs need to understand where they go next. Staying where you are is no success strategy, but taking the next step is fraught with challenges. Is Innovation the key or do you consolidate what you have. Is automation of processes and procedures fundamental to future growth. Our Platinum panellists will give their opinions on what are the next steps for MSPs wishing to be winners.

PANELLISTS INCLUDE

Neil Stobart

Cloudian

As the VP of Global System Engineering for Cloudian Inc., Stobart is responsible for pre and post sales technology teams to drive sales and brand awareness of Cloudian and cloud storage solutions, providing education to customers, partners and press and ensuring technical due diligence is adhered to during the sales and deployment processes. Stobart brings 25 years’ experience in developing technical storage and systems architecture solutions with time served at, Dell, Compellent, Hitachi Data Systems, MaXXan, Morse, Nexenta and the Woolwich Building society covering all aspects of data storage and management technologies including; SAN, NAS, Object, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, backup, storage networking, capacity planning and performance analysis as well as Cloud computing, open Systems computing, thin client, data networking and application infrastructure design. Stobart has held several senior consulting and leadership roles working with some of the largest technology companies in the industry and providing guidance and advice to major commercial organisations globally, on best practises and economic considerations of data storage technology deployment.

Sam Callaghan

ConnectWise

Sam has worked at ConnectWise since 2014, which was the start of our focused international expansion. Prior, he worked with a number of US based technology businesses, helping them expand their communities and reach across EMEA. While at ConnectWise, Sam has acted as both an individual contributor and helped in training, managing, and supporting the fast-growing sales teams.

Tim Swainson

Sophos

Tim has been within the IT Channel for 19 years, holding roles at different stages within MSPs, Distribution & Vendors his focus has been on building new business supporting partners to adapt to new ways of accessing and delivering services while still maintaining a competitive advantage, with a key focus around Cybersecurity for most of this time the last 3 years have been focused on Cloud Infrastructure and Security.

Varma Kunaparaju

OpsRamp

An engineer at heart and entrepreneur by trade, Varma Kunaparaju has three decades of experience in high-technology engineering. He has a proven record of building and delivering enterprise software and founding and leading information technology companies. Varma is the co-founder/CEO of OpsRamp, a cloud-based IT operations management platform vendor. Prior to co-founding OpsRamp, Varma spent more than a decade in the IT operations management space with Netenrich, where he was co-founder and CTO. Before Netenrich, Varma was co-founder and vp of engineering of NexPrise, a collaborative B2B e-commerce software vendor, helping guide that company to be listed in NASDAQ and eventually acquired. Varma’s career in Silicon Valley began in the early 1990s with Exodus Communications. Varma has long been an advocate for service providers and system integrators. He is passionate about building disruptive technologies and leading go-to-market teams to create companies of significance. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering and a master of science degree in computer science.