Kevin Gartenhaus

Kevin Gartenhaus founded IT Spire in February 2004 in partnership with Solution Technology, Inc., an $80M organization headquartered in Indianapolis that is one of IBM's 10 largest business partners nationally. Because of the outstanding business results achieved rapidly by IT Spire, Kevin and his partner Jim Talhelm, were able to buy out their business partners and take full ownership of IT Spire in February of 2005.

Throughout Kevin?s 25-year career working for top companies like IBM, Ameritech and Source Services Corporation (now Kforce), Kevin has received numerous sales and marketing awards and recognition, and has excelled at developing intellectual capital, people, and building organizations from the ground up. Kevin has engaged in a number of highly successful efforts including:

· Providing business process consulting to a number of Fortune 100 clients.

· Building IT consulting organizations in Indianapolis and Boston from the ground up.

· Project managing the development and rollout of a company-wide, fully integrated accounting and marketing system for a $500M IT staffing and services firm.

· Project managing the development and implementation of the strategic planning process for the IT organization of an $11B pharmaceutical company.

· Leading a national team in building and selling complete end-to-end IT infrastructure solutions to address the unique requirements of the healthcare and life sciences industries.

Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Math from Purdue University, and an MBA in Marketing from Indiana University. In addition to Kevin?s professional and community activities, he finds full-time enjoyment from his wife Kelly and their three wonderful children, Matthew, Zachary, and Lauren.