Main-Stage Speakers – 2010
Arnie Bellini
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Arnie Bellini is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConnectWise. Arnie is the chief visionary behind the company’s long-standing success in the information technology industry. Today, ConnectWise is a leading provider of IT services to companies in the Tampa market and the publisher of the industry’s most widely-used professional services automation (PSA) software.In 1982, Arnie astutely recognized the impact that microcomputers would have on business and formed the company with his brother David. Arnie’s passion to continually drive operational efficiencies and deliver excellent customer service made ConnectWise one of the most admired companies in the IT services market. In 1998, Arnie decided to capture his company’s best practices in an integrated, workflow-driven business management solution that would benefit all IT services companies. That project resulted in the creation of ConnectWise PSA. |
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Keith McFarland
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Keith R. McFarland, author of the No. 1 The Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller – The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers, and Bounce: The Art of Turning Tough Times into Triumph, will be a keynote speaker at the highly anticipated IT Nation 2010, the 6th annual ConnectWise Partner Summit. Founder of McFarland Strategy Partners, which provides advisory services to companies such as House of Blues, The Los Alamos National Laboratory, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Motorola, Vans and multiple middle market growth firms, McFarland has provided management insight to organizations for more than 20 years. He is a former Inc. 500 CEO having headed up two technology firms, was one of the youngest business school deans in the nation at 26 and currently writes a monthly online column for BusinessWeek. |
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Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger
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Against all odds on a gridiron in South Bend, Indiana, Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger in twenty seven seconds, carved his name into history books as perhaps the most famous graduate of the University of Notre Dame. The son of an oil refinery worker and third of 14 children, Rudy Ruettiger rose from valleys of discouragement and despair to the pinnacles of success. It took years of fierce determination to overcome obstacles and criticisms, yet Rudy achieved his first dream – to attend Notre Dame and play football for the Fighting Irish. As fans cheered RU-DY, RU-DY, he sacked the quarterback in the last 27 seconds of the only play in the only game of his college football career. Rudy Ruettiger is the only player in the school’s history to be carried off the field on his teammates’ shoulders. |
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