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John Qualls, Senior Vice President – Business Development

John Qualls is an accomplished business leader who has spent his entire career developing and promoting innovative technology solutions that drive and enable business growth and profitability. As a co-founder of Bluelock, John served as CEO from the company’s inception in 2006 until September 2010. His vision, leadership, and passion for the business brought Bluelock to a level of revenue and customer-based size that few start-up companies achieve. John’s initiative to later bring on professional CEO leadership enabled him to focus his energies and talents on exploring new markets and strategic areas of growth for the company. In 2010, John was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Once thought to be a futuristic service model, “Infrastructure-as-a-Service” was commercialized and brought to the market by John as a more effective, more efficient and more affordable approach to technology investment and management.  It was this vision and model that drove the formation of Bluelock.

John has helped hundreds of organizations solve their operational challenges by developing predictable and controlled approaches to infrastructure deployment and investment. From his early roots in application development, data center co-location, managed network services and disaster recovery, he offers a keen understanding of the last decade’s technological trends and cycles that have evolved into today and tomorrow’s hosted IT environments.

Prior to co-founding Bluelock, John served as the vice president of sales and marketing for a traditional hosting (co-location) provider where he was responsible for expanding the organization regionally and increasing market awareness for the company’s data center, network support services and disaster recovery solutions. Through his leadership role in TechPoint’s professional IT peer group, Indiana’s only statewide information technology association, John helped educate the Indiana technology community about critical issues such as spam, cyber security, wireless networks, IT certification, power supply issues, IT research and development, data storage, unified messaging, Voice over IP (VoIP) and open source application development.

In addition to his technological industry experience, John served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps and is a decorated Gulf War veteran.

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