Michael Conley — Executive Vice President of Hosting Solutions at Forsythe Technology

Mr. Michael Conley has been an Executive Vice President of Hosting Solutions at Forsythe Technology Inc. since May 2015 and served as its Senior Vice President for Emerging Technologies & Key Accounts of June 2007. Mr. Conley leads the division that combines Forsythe's managed security services, managed hosting services, managed systems services and Forsythe Data Centers. He served as Senior Vice President of Emerging Technologies and Key Accounts at Forsythe. He joined Forsythe in 1993 as an Account Manager. He became a District Manager in 2000, was promoted to Vice President in 2003 and to Senior Vice President in 2007. He was named to the Forsythe Technology board of directors in 2006. He has served on the advisory boards of several of Forsythe's technology manufacturer partners and is a member of Forsythe's internal committee to evaluate emerging technologies, with a special focus on the many security and hybrid data center/cloud solutions that are currently being developed. Prior to joining Forsythe, he worked for three years with Delta Communications, Chicago, Ill. as sales manager of a thirteen-state Midwestern sales region serving national customers. He has served as a guest-lecturer for the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and the University of Notre Dame Executive MBA Program, educating executive business students about IT issues in business context. He is a contributing author for two case studies published by the Kellogg School. He has been a commentator on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson, the #1 Saturday morning radio show in the Boston market, and his observations about how businesses address IT issues have been published in CIO Insight, IT Business Edge, and Information Today. Mr. Conley holds a bachelor's degree in economics from The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.