share this page
About
Brian is Founder and CEO of HigherGround Managed Services, a full-service IT and consulting firm that partners with entrepreneurs and leaders of small to medium-sized organizations. Brian started his career designing and maintaining hospital computer systems for labor and delivery departments. At 20, he published and defended two security papers at the World Congress of Applied Computing. Graduating early from Illinois State University, Brian joined the Security Engineering Division at Discover Card. After launching HigherGround in 1998, Brian grew the company from a single person residential practice to a company with enterprise pedigree consultants to one of the leading IT consulting firms in Chicagoland offering full stack managed services consulting (CIO down to helpdesk), strategic consulting, application development, and concierge IT (boutique residential IT services). Brian was named a “35 Under 35” scholar from the Chicago Scholars Foundation, and serves on their board. He graduated from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program in 2017. A sought after presenter, Brian often speaks on business continuity, security and how small businesses can use technology to accelerate their growth plans. An avid cyclist and bourbon aficionado, Brian lives in Bucktown with his wife.Company Spotlight in Tech
Zebra Technologies
videos (1)

Origin Ventures
videos (1)
Steve Miller

InvestHER Ventures
videos (1)
Cayla Weisberg

Novatio Solutions
videos (1)
Gokul Solai

Shiftgig
videos (3)
Eddie Lou

FLEx Lighting
videos (1)
Mike Casper

Jobbatical
videos (1)
Karoli Hindriks

Edovo
videos (1)
Brian Hill

nuphoriq
videos (1)
Erin Walter

DragonSpears
videos (1)
Patrick Emmons

Techweek
videos (2)
Amanda Signorelli

eComfort.com
videos (1)
Pavel Sokolovsky

HighGround
videos (1)
Vip Sandhir

Phoenix Business Solutions
videos (1)
Peggy Hrindak

WiredScore
videos (1)

BallotReady
videos (1)
Alex Niemczewski

Tovala
videos (1)
David Rabie

Earlybird Software
videos (1)
Andrew Parnell

Squadhelp.com
videos (1)
Darpan Munjal

HERE
videos (1)
AAron Dannenbring

ArrowStream
videos (1)
Frank Morgiewicz

Chicago Inno
videos (1)
Will Flanagan

Swap Motors
videos (1)
Sanjay Patel

MVTRAC
videos (1)
Luke Smith

Sentact
videos (1)
Chris Dube
ReviewTrackers
videos (2)
Chris Campbell

Rippleshot
videos (1)
Canh Tran

Punchkick Interactive
videos (2)
Zak Dabbas

Kenway Consulting
videos (1)
Brian King

Mattersight
videos (1)
Kelly Conway

Highland Solutions
videos (1)
Jeff Nixon

Business Technology Partners
videos (1)
Todd Perlman

Blue Nova Technology
videos (1)
Nathaniel Smith

RightHand Technologies
videos (1)
Steve Valentor

Liberty Advisor Group
videos (1)
Sara Fitzgerald

Elexa Consumer Products
videos (1)
Lawrence Beger

Helix
AAron Dannenbring

Multiple, Inc.
videos (1)
Dave Mason

CarAdvise
videos (1)

King Devick Technologies, Inc.
videos (1)
Danielle Leong

Amount
videos (1)
Adam Hughe

Elements Holdings Group & Subsidiaries
videos (1)
Rick Hammell

Call One Inc.
videos (3)
Chris Surdenik

G2 Crowd
videos (2)
Tim Handorf

Broadwind Energy
videos (1)
Peter Duprey

Lemko
videos (1)
Bo Pyskir

Codal
videos (1)
Keval Baxi

Savoir
videos (1)
Shatabdi Basu