CompTIA Community - North America

Brook Lee

Director of Channel Development, ScalePad

Brook began her career in IT in the corporate sector running departments all over the US, from small businesses all the way to multibillion-dollar companies. She later moved to the MSP space and really found her niche in IT. Starting from the ground up, she has worked in all aspects of an MSP from dispatch to engineer to project management to vCIO to COO. Rebuilding MSPs while working as a consultant allowed her to help hundreds of people and companies be able to grow and mature.  While consulting she found the Channel of the MSP world and realized there was even more to learn, new ways to be able give back to the community and a whole new area to conquer.   Since joining the Channel, she has found a new space to be passionate about her love of IT and an avenue to help those passions grow to fruition.   

Hannah O'Donnell

Vice President of Sales, Great America

Eric Torres

VP of Channel, ScalePad

Eric Torres joined Datto, Inc. in March of 2015. With over 15 years in the technology industry, Eric shares his passion for educating the business community on the ever-changing cybersecurity threat landscape. Formerly a member of Datto’s Advisory Board, and now the Director of Channel Development, Eric shares his knowledge and expertise on mitigating cyber threats at hundreds of peer-to-peer presentations and industry events throughout the year. Once named to CRN Magazine’s 100 People You Don’t Know, But Should list, and a former member of CompTIA’s Security Executive Council, Eric brings his passion for business continuity and the managed service provider community to this role and focuses on supporting the Datto Partner Community in growing their business.

Carrie Green

VP, Strategy, Alt-Tech

Cynthia Mooney

Global Sales Account Manager, HP Inc.

Cynthia Mooney is a Solutions Delivery Executive at HP.

She has been in the technology industry for 30 years with progressive leadership roles for the past 12 years.

She is responsible for delivering value-add services solutions to help customers attain their business goals. Cynthia is accountable for the delivery team in the Eastern United States across high-profile accounts within the healthcare, education, state government, manufacturing, finance and technology sectors.

She is on the Advisory Board of the CompTIA/Ryerson Technology initiative, Co-Chair for the Women’s Impact Network at HP Canada and prides herself in being a mentor within HP’s Leadership Rotation Program.

Cynthia is passionate about value solutions and business outcomes for her customers and development for early career individuals.

Cynthia golfs, skis and practices yoga. She is also an avid Marvel Universe and Star Wars fan.

Juan Fernandez

Co-Founder/CEO, MSP Growth Coalition

Juan Fernandez is the Vice President of Managed IT Services for Imagenet Consulting. He has been working in and developing the IT industry for over 23 years. With an enterprise and small business focus, proficiencies on HIPPA, PCI compliance with focused on small business, Government, Education, healthcare and financial industries. Juan is one of select few to write the CompTIA A+, Network +, Security + Tests. Juan also sits on the CompTIA Subject Matter Expert Technical Advisory board members. Dedicated to improving service delivery through embracing effective and efficient use of technology, creating effective business models for delivering IT based services such as DaaS, SaaS, DRaaS, HaaS and promoting online development opportunities to increase individual self-service capabilities and leading strategic initiatives to effectively transform technology to be simple, flexible, adaptable and responsive to the customer needs.

He is the winner of the 2018 MSP Shark Tank for best security and services presentation in which set the stage for an all-inclusive Security and Device as a service model that set the framework for channel and MSP’s models. Juan has focused his entire career on educating customers and companies on his Making “IT” Simple approach.

Juan sits on the HP DaaS advisory committee for Device as a Service and has worked with many other channel companies to develop XaaS models.

Chris Infante

Director of Engineering, Forward Edge

Chris currently serves as the Director of Engineering and Managed Services at Forward Edge, overseeing Managed Services, Cybersecurity, and the Network Project teams. With over 25 years of IT industry experience spanning the SMB, Enterprise, and Education sectors, he brings a wealth of knowledge to the table including building a successful MSP before joining the Forward Edge team where he has re-envisioned what success looks like. 

During his tenure at Forward Edge, he has been instrumental in building and leading a team that started with just two engineers and is now a highly skilled group of over twenty professionals. Over the past decade, he has played a pivotal role in driving the company's growth, achieving significant technical and professional milestones, he continues to ensure the highest levels of service excellence. In addition to his corporate experience, he has also dedicated time as an Adjunct Instructor for Kaplan College, where he had the privilege of teaching computer science. This experience along with a dedication to K-12 education has deepened his commitment to the development of future IT professionals. 

Terez Leach

MSP Community Engagement, Trend Micro