Kevin Routhier is the founder and CEO of Coretelligent, the premier provider of Managed IT and Private Cloud Services, which enables small and mid-sized companies to seamlessly power their businesses. Since 2006, Kevin has led the charge on delivering best-in-class IT service solutions that drive business success. He brings 15 years of hands-on technology experience combined with deep knowledge of business operations and the economic dynamics inherent in creating real value. Steadfastly committed to a set of core principles for delivering service excellence, Kevin founded Coretelligent in order to help clients effectively maximize their IT investments and ensure outstanding performance. Kevin oversees the strategic direction of the company and the global implementation of its service offering, including Coretelligent’s state-of-art geo-diversified private cloud. He manages a long-standing team of technical experts who have become trusted advisors to clients across industry sectors. In 2012 and again in 2013, Coretelligent joined the ranks of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies in America and its Top 100 in Massachusetts.

Prior to Coretelligent, Kevin held senior positions with a number of companies including CMGi, iPhrase Technologies, and IBM. In these roles, he focused on the design and implementation of highly efficient IT infrastructure and solutions, while addressing diverse business needs across a broad user base. Kevin was honored as an emerging leader by the Boston Business Journal on their 2013 list of 40 Under 40. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Better Business Bureau of Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont. Philanthropically committed to improving the lives of children, Kevin sits on the Board of Overseers of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay.

Bernard Westwood brings over 20 years of experience in operations and finance in IT technology companies, and is currently serving as VP of Operations at Hipskind. Prior to this, Bernard served as CFO of Syscom Technologies, where he founded and led the Storage and Virtualization practice in the company reaching over $30M in sales in 2013. He also selected as a member of the  Partner Advisory Councils with Dell and Riverbed Technologies. During his career, Bernard has also held roles of COO/Director of Technical Services in CTS, MultiSoft, and at Direct Connect Systems / Datalink as one of the founding members who started one of the first Data Storage only Value Added Resellers (VARs) in the US. Earlier in his career, Bernard served as a Captain in the US Air Force where he was assigned to various Programs within the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

Bernard holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University.

John is president and co-founder of DataGravity, the industry’s first data-aware storage system.

John served as vice president of enterprise solutions, marketing at Dell for three years after the acquisition of EqualLogic in 2008. He joined EqualLogic in 2003 as vice president of marketing and product management to launch the company and the PS Series products into the rapidly growing iSCSI SAN market. Before joining EqualLogic, John held product design, product management and marketing roles at Digital Equipment Corporation, Quantum and Maxtor Corporation. He was responsible for all enterprise marketing and product management while at Quantum and Maxtor. He is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Clark University.

John is a frequent speaker at technology and entrepreneurship events. Outside of his work in high technology, John is an advisor to the graduate school of management and entrepreneurial studies at WPI. He is active in coaching and mentoring young athletes and advising college- bound seniors on possible career paths aligned to individual passions and strengths.

Ray Villeneuve has served in a variety of leadership positions in early, growth, and mature stage technology companies. Most recently Ray was VP Corporate Development and Strategy at Riverbed responsible for M/A activity and previously was GM of the Cloud Storage Business Unit where he and his team launched and built the Whitewater cloud storage appliance business. Previously Ray was CEO of MonoSphere, a venture funded predictive analytics software company focused on enterprise and cloud data center capacity planning. Earlier, Ray was VP Worldwide Marketing at storage industry leader NetApp and before that, VP Marketing at pioneering NAS company Auspex. Ray earned an MBA from Fox Business School at Temple University and a BSME from the University of Michigan.