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IT Business Growth Professionals can be a critical component of the success of solution providers as well as vendors and distributors. This is especially true with small entrepreneurs, who are typically technology focused and have a great need for industry and business knowledge that can help them address the challenges they face on the path to growth and success.  The IT Business Growth Professionals (BGPs) Community focuses on creating more awareness of BGPs, advancing the professionalism of BGPs, and creating best practices and tools for working with clients.

For more information on the CompTIA IT Business Growth Professionals Community, please contact us at communities@comptia.org.

Members Include:

IT Consultants committed to becoming business growth professionals

The ITBGP Community chairs are:
  • Chair: Ken Thoreson, President of Acumen Management Group
  • Vice-Chair: Dale Johnson, President & CEO of Technology Assurance Group

Current Member-Driven Initiatives:

  • Creation of best practices and standards of professionalism for business growth professionals to work with clients
  • Development of customer expectations guidelines and a client qualification tool
  • Design and completion of a directory on the CompTIA website for end users to locate business growth professional solution and service providers

Community Initiatives

 

Community Resources and Documents

Doc_IDDoc_TitleDescriptionDate_PostedFile_Size
ChannelPro Interview

Ken and Kirk's Interview with Channel Pro

Added on 5/17/2011 Document Type : Articles

6 total downloads

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eChannelLine Interview

Ken and Kirk's interview with Mark Cox of eChannelLine

Added on 5/17/2011 Document Type : Articles

2 total downloads

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CompTIA Communities Leadership Handbook

This document is a handbook for CompTIA community leaders. It provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of a community leader, as well as background information on how communities are generally managed.

Added on 4/4/2011 Document Type : Training File Size : 846 K
Author : Jim Hamilton

80 total downloads

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IT Business Growth Professionals Community Staff Leader

Kirk Smallwood Kirk Smallwood is vice president of strategic relationships for the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). He is responsible for identifying and recruiting board members, building and recruiting for critical Special Interest Groups (SIGs), strengthening executive-level awareness of CompTIA among major IT companies and nurturing relationships which build the association's base and depth through partners.

Before joining CompTIA in February 2009, Mr. Smallwood was director of sales operations for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). For most of his 13 years at the Virginia-based trade association, he was responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the business development team, which produced approximately 95% of the association's annual revenue. Most of this revenue was generated through the International Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world's largest consumer technology trade shows, which grew from 900,000 net square feet of exhibit space, to more than 1.8 million square feet during his tenure.

Mr. Smallwood holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.

 

 

IT Business Growth Professionals Community Leadership

IT Business Growth Professionals Community Chair
Ken Thoreson, President of Acumen Management Group

IT Business Growth Professionals Community Vice-Chair
Dale Johnson, President & CEO of Technology Assurance Group

 

 

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