John Burgess

Mr. Burgess is a co-founder of Mainstream Technologies and has served as President since its inception in 1996. Mainstream provides custom software development, infrastructure and managed IT services to businesses and governments across the U.S and was the first company, worldwide, to achieve the MSP/Cloud Verify examination.

He actively participates in civic and professional organizations including the Boards of Directors of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce and Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce and on the Board and as a past Chairman of the North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce.

John can be found most weekends in the woods with his Boy Scout Troop.

Robin Chow

As the founder and president of XBASE Technologies Robin Chow’s quest for knowledge in the technology field started very early. At the age of 12 while still attending Junior high school, Chow received early admission to George Brown College where he studied programming and microprocessor design.

Chow is tapped regularly by industry leaders in the technology sector as well as other MSP’s for his ability to listen, interpret and solve highly complex problems. Chow derives great joy and personal satisfaction whenever he can draw on his over three decades of experience in the fields of business technology to help advise others on ideas overcome challenges and obstacles in their businesses.

Michael Corey

Michael Corey is the co-founder of LicenseFortress. Michael is a business and technology advisor. Michael is a frequent speaker at technology and business conferences throughout the world from Australia to Brazil. In 2017, was recognized as #42 of the top 100 most influential people in the “cloud industry” Michael is a recognized Oracle ACE, a recognized VMware vExpert, a recognized Microsoft Data Platform MVP formerly (Microsoft SQL Server MVP). Michael is the original Oracle press author and his newest book is Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right from VMware Press. Michael is a regular columnist on Clouds Trends for the Big Data Quarterly magazine.

Michael Corey co-founded Database Technologies (DBT), the first consulting company on the East Coast to specialize in Oracle and other relational databases which was sold to Level 3 Communications. Under his direction, Database Technologies experienced triple-digit growth and in 1997, was recognized by Deloitte & Touche, and Hale and Dorr as the fastest growing, technology company in New England and the 51st fastest growing technology company in the United States. Michael’s also founded Ntirety one of the first Managed Service Companies in the world focused on Database Services and consulting which he sold to HOSTING of Denver, Colorado in 2014.

Michael received a gubernatorial appointment to the Massachusetts Robert H. Goddard Council for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Nicolas Geudens

Nicolas Geudens began his career in various business development management positions; he then established together with his father his own company to provide management consultancy services. In 2008, he founded Hestia, Belgium’s market leader for infrastructure manage service he is currently Managing Partner. Mr. Geudens looks after Hestia’s management and strategic guidance; with his team, he strives for the highest level of quality and service in manage service for his customers.

Mr. Geudens obtained his master’s degree in commercial sciences with a specialization in IT management and marketing at the University of Antwerp (Belgium); he followed this with several advanced courses that further broadened his business management skills.

Karl Springer

Karl Springer began his career in public accounting and after graduating from Texas A&M in 1980 with a BBA in Finance. He obtained his CPA certificate in 1982. His public accounting background includes 32 years of tax experience with a focus on oil & gas, real estate and merger/acquisition transactions. The first 12 years included managing the technology for the firm as well as client computers and networks.

In 1999 he spun-off the technology practice into a separate company, Sagiss. He sold his CPA practice in 2011 to focus on growing and building Sagiss.

He has served on numerous boards and audit committees in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Karl is an avid golfer and enjoys traveling with his wife, Robin. He coached club and college softball for seven years and two years respectively.