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Responsible for guiding the development, growth, and positioning strategy of the company, Mitchell has a wealth of experience in the application of IT infrastructure and cloud networking technologies for enterprises operating in Canada, the United States, and international markets. He’s an experienced technology strategist with insights into how businesses can harness the power of IT infrastructure and cloud technologies to achieve their objectives.
Before joining Decisive, he was a senior executive advisor at Amazon Web Services, where he partnered with client executive teams to develop strategies for the adoption of new technologies and platforms based on industry best practices. Before Amazon Web Services, he held several senior leadership roles at IBM Global Business Services.
He holds an MBA from Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business, a Bachelor of Arts from Queen’s University, and a certificate in executive management from Harvard Business School.

Eric is responsible for optimizing the financial performance of Decisive Group and setting the direction for financial operations, as well as overseeing our human resources, legal, project management, and corporate compliance functions. He’s a seasoned executive with extensive experience leading high-tech companies—including Halogen Software, Saba Software, March Networks, and Xmark Corporation—through rapid growth, including initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.
He is a chartered professional accountant (CPA, CA) and holds Master of Accounting and Bachelor of Mathematics degrees from the University of Waterloo.

As one of the founding partners, Mike works with the senior leadership team to provide mentorship and guidance. He has more than 22 years of experience in the data centre solutions industry, including a tenure as vice president of Zentra Computer Technologies, where he oversaw the company’s sales team. Before Zentra, Mike spent five years as part-owner of the VAR Stoneworks, and he was the storage solutions manager at Rebel.com.

Joey acts as an advisor and mentor while constantly focusing on enriching Decisive’s corporate culture. As one of the founding partners, he strives to build a family-like environment where staff are excited to come to work each day and pour their passion into exceeding customer expectations. Before Decisive, Joey established a career delivering sales results based on relationship building, communication, and positive outcomes at companies that include Zentra Computer Technologies and Zycom Technology.

A founding partner, Richard provides technical direction and guidance to management, sales, and support resources, ensuring that strategic plans and engineering efforts remain focused on meeting and exceeding customer requirements. He has 25 years of experience in high-performance computing, networking, storage architectures, and cloud architectures, including senior positions at Zentra Computer Technologies, Ciena Networks, Catena Networks, Objectime, the Department of National Defence, and Cray Research.

Jonathan draws on more than 15 years of sales experience to set the strategic direction for Decisive’s sales efforts. Managing the corporate, defence and public safety, and government sales teams, Jonathan is responsible for delivering solutions to the end-user. Prior to joining Decisive, he was a senior account manager and marketing consultant at Newcap Radio and an inside sales representative for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League.

Clare has a successful track record working with executives to develop talented and motivated teams that drive business success. She is responsible for ensuring our talent is aligned with our business strategy and continues to maintain the winning culture that supports our employees through all phases of their careers.
Before Joining Decisive, Clare was an HR consultant who advised leaders on creating a positive work environment, understanding issues that impact workplace effectiveness, and managing people and teams. Prior to her work as a consultant, Clare worked as a manager and HR generalist at technology, financial management, and law firms, including MBM Intellectual Property Law and MD Financial Management.

Andrew manages the team responsible for understanding customers’ and internal stakeholder’s cloud needs and translating them into clear, actionable direction. Over more than 15 years, Andrew has amassed extensive knowledge of software, database, web, cloud, and mobile app development. Before joining Decisive he was a systems administrator at Curtiss-Wright, a network support analyst for the United Way, and a technical support representative for Dell Canada.

Devin Somppi leads the team that combines advanced technologies, products, and systems to develop and deliver Decisive’s technology- and vendor-agnostic network security solutions. He brings extensive experience in security architectures, based on his work as an IT security operations analyst at Export Development Canada, a senior network security analyst at Bell Canada, and a server administrator at BoxFabric. Devin has conducted in-depth network security audits, developed and deployed cybersecurity protection and response systems (including IBM QRadar), implemented zero-trust networks, and trained as a white-hat hacker.

Dan is responsible for spanning the void between sales and security operations, ensuring prospective clients get a realistic view of what they are buying, and that existing clients receive solutions that meet or exceed expectations. Dan’s roles at Decisive have spanned service definition and sales enablement, technical pre-sales, and project/technical account management—always fulfilling an integral role in the customer lifecycle.

A 19-year IT veteran, Dan has extensive experience in a range of positions, which have collectively given him a pragmatic approach to security that looks at problems from all angles.

Responsible for “all things legal” at Decisive Group, Jennifer has more than 20 years of experience as a senior executive, in-house counsel and a member of some of Canada’s leading law firms. As a seasoned general counsel at both start-up and high-growth global companies, she has wide-ranging experience in areas such as intellectual property, licensing, contracts, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, financing, restructuring, corporate governance, alternative dispute resolution, litigation, employment, immigration, and regulatory and export control.

A graduate of Carleton University (B.A. Hons.) and McGill University Law School, Jennifer is also a principal with Ross-Carrière Law, and has worked with companies that include Spartan Bioscience, Mxi Technologies and IFS Aerospace & Defense.

Maggie is responsible for leading Decisive’s partnerships through support, training, events, meetings and more. She also handles all social media campaigns and related activity. Maggie is the face of Decisive, attending multiple partner functions as well as executing events for our partners from start to finish. Before joining Decisive, Maggie was a Promotions and Marketing Director for Stingray Radio and brings 17 years of experience in partner and event management to the Decisive team.