With
decades of experience, crossing disciplines from business continuity
to resiliency services, CoSentry provides the services and technology
that companies need in order to act quickly and maintain a productive
enterprise at all times. Dedicated to helping businesses lace resiliency
into all elements of their operation, CoSentry brings strategic and
operational value to a firms bottom line whether during a disruption
or within the course of normal business operations.Michael Steffan, President and CEO
Mike has over 20 years experience in the technology sector. He was a founding partner of InaCom Corporation providing executive leadership in corporate development, sales, IT, manufacturing and distribution. Prior to joining CoSentry Mike was the vice president and general manager of Hewlett Packard/Compaq Direct where he was responsible for developing and growing Hewlett Packard direct manufacturing, distribution, call center and order book management capabilities supporting hardware and support services to Hewlett Packards customers and channel partners in North America. Mr. Steffan has a BS degree from Creighton University.
Joe Urzendowski, VP and COO
Joe is a 1985 graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a BS in Professional Accounting. Prior to joining CoSentry in 2004 Joe was a Senior Tax and Business Consultant with Deloitte & Touche from 19861989 and a member of the Finance team at Peter Kiewit & Sons from 1989-1992, where he was primarily focused on merger and acquisition activity. In 1992, Joe joined Data Transmission Network, a subscription based information services company, where he held various management and executive positions, most recently as Sr. Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Joe has extensive expertise in finance, technical and administrative operations as well as leading new growth initiatives.
Kevin Dohrmann, VP and CTO
Kevin has 24 years of experience in the technology industry including technical support and international call center operations management, Internet telephony and the World Wide Web. He co-founded an Internet telephony company that provided Web-based telephone services to large U.S. and European carriers. He has been involved in various aspects of Internet and Web development since 1992. Dohrmann has published many articles on technology networking topics and is a frequent speaker on technology trends and the impact technology has on business. Dohrmann was granted a patent (6,192,123) used in telephony and database technology in 1998.
Manny Quevedo, VP Sales and Marketing
Manny has been in the network industry since 1983. His focus has been in data networking and transport services with international providers including MCI, Nextel and InaCom. As a top executive he had the opportunity to design and implement multinational networks for some of the world's leading companies. He was also instrumental in building the nations first all-digital wireless network in southern California. Prior to joining CoSentry Quevedo was Vice President of Sales, Services and Marketing for InaCom Corporation.
Doug West, VP and General Manager - South Region
Doug has been in the communications and networking industry since 1975. He spent his early years with Codex Corporation and Motorola, where he held various management and director level positions in both engineering and sales. Mr. West also managed direct and indirect sales to RBOC's (Regional Bell Operating Companies) for Teleglobe and Memotec. Prior to joining CoSentry West built the firms networking practice and was a Vice President of an Omaha-based Systems Integration firm.
Cris Freiwald, VP and General Manager - North Region
Cris has been active in the computer industry since 1980 with experience in programming, sales, project management, new business development and general management. During a 20 year career at InaCom Corporation his executive responsibilities included VP of Corporate Development and President of the International Division. Cris was Managing Director for an international consortium of system integrators in 56 countries that implemented large scale technology rollouts for global 200 companies. Cris graduated from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD with BA degrees in economics and German.
Bob Goding, VP Service Desk Outsourcing
Bob Goding, an industry veteran with over 30 years of technology
experience, oversees CoSentrys proprietary Service Desk event
management web-based application known by customers as SolutionsDesk.
Prior to CoSentry, Goding was with Inacom and an original team member
in the formation of Inacom Networks which focused on client migration
to IP networks and telephony. In his career, Goding managed the
purchasing and marketing of over $3 billion in annual revenue.