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04
Apr, 2018

By Nancy Dahlberg

Member Spotlight | The SilverLogic

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HQ: Boca Raton

Business: Custom Software Engineering Company

CEO: David Hartmann

Employees: 34

Website: thesilverlogic.com or tsl.io

The SilverLogic is not your typical tech company. And the 26-year-old CEO, David Hartmann, wouldn’t have it any other way.

“We build iOS and Android apps, websites, web apps, business automation, iOT, augmented reality and blockchain technologies,” said Hartmann, who co-founded the Boca Raton-based custom software engineering company 5½ years ago as a Florida Atlantic University student.

But don’t call The SilverLogic a dev shop, because it is so much more, he said. In clients, “we look for long-term relationships. We will build the MVP but then we also help maintain and support it.”

What’s more, once The SilverLogic has built a product for a client, an integrated TSL marketing team helps acquire users and reach the masses with the new technology.

“Some of our clients were hiring agencies and not getting the same value-focused delivery they were getting from us for software,” said Hartmann. That’s when it became clear that TSL needed to be involved from development through user acquisition, he explained. This year, marketing is an integral part of TSL’s services.

In 2017, the company built 17 products for new clients, including Alf Boss, a resource for assisted living facilities, and entertainment-tech company VuPulse, in addition to supporting and enhancing others.

To support the growth, The SilverLogic has hired at least one employee every month since Dec. 2016, growing from 17 to 34 employees today, said Rory Michaels, who heads up marketing.

Consider this: 80 percent of its employees started as interns. Each employee has a personal development plan, promising plenty of experiences using emerging technologies on a variety of projects.

“No one has to swim in their own lane because there is no lane,” said Michaels, who previously worked in politics and Hollywood and was attracted to The SilverLogic because of the impact it can create. “Everyone is committed to build products that drive success.”

Hartmann, born in Germany, studied computer science and mathematics while at FAU. He had been doing contract development work on his own, and while taking an iOS development class, he teamed up with a classmate to form the startup. The concept: they could do better work by working together.

After graduating with bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Hartmann focused fulltime on developing the company. This marked the beginning of TSL’s growth spurt.

“Because I have that technical background, I care a lot that the software we deliver has to be very high quality and follows good engineering principals. So we have built up pretty strong infrastructure … that we share with all our clients. By working with us, they have an infrastructure level they wouldn’t have at the startup level,” he explained.

Entering hackathons allows team members to stretch their creativity and work with new technologies. The company’s “hackathon SEAL team,” led by Hartmann, has won or placed at every hackathon it has entered the past couple of years – nine of them – including Money2020 and Visa Developer Challenge in Las Vegas, the Miami Bitcoin Conference and eMerge Americas, where it will compete for a fourth time later this month. “It’s a great team experience,” he said.

And the learning never stops. The past few months, members of the company have been on a “world tour,” meeting experts and participating in conferences from San Francisco, LA and Seattle to Barcelona, Singapore and Dubai.

Then the company will bring it back to Boca. This summer, The SilverLogic will start a speaker series, bringing tech experts to town, some of whom team members have met on their world tour. The events will be open to the community. Stay tuned.

28
Mar, 2018

By Nancy Dahlberg

Membership Spotlight | Dedicated IT

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Business: IT services for companies.
HQ: Palm Beach Gardens; second office in Melbourne, Fla.
CEO: Adam Steinhoff
Employees: 28

 

Adam Steinhoff once tried working for someone else. It lasted a year.

“It became very apparent that I am a much better entrepreneur than an employee,” he quipped.

That one-year stint as a senior network engineer was 17 years ago, and since then, Steinhoff has built his own tech company, Dedicated IT, into a strong employer and tech player in Palm Beach County.

Dedicated IT, based in Palm Beach Gardens, is an IT services company specializing in serving mid-sized companies. “Businesses with 100 to 500 employees do business with Dedicated IT because we are the best at turning around poorly performing IT departments and/or other IT services companies who are dropping the ball,” said Steinhoff, founder and CEO, during an interview in the hammock chairs at Palm Beach Tech, where he is vice chair of the board of directors.

Like Dedicated IT, Steinhoff was officially made in Palm Beach County. A geek all his life, Steinhoff started fixing other people’s computers as a teen. “My parents drove me to friends’ houses to fix their computers, and I would have to call them afterward to pick me up.”

Steinhoff attended college, but dropped out quickly because “everything they were teaching was obsolete.” Instead he acquired relevant certifications: Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, NetApp, Nimble and others. That knowledge was supplemented with real-world experience – “many years of hard-learned and often expensive lessons,” he said.

Fast forward to today and Steinhoff hasn’t changed: “A lot of people tinker on cars and stuff – I like to tinker on businesses.”

Today, Dedicated IT has 28 employees and Steinhoff has plans to add 20 this year. Revenues have doubled in the past year, and the company has 167 clients in 40 states and three countries, Israel, France and the UK. In 2016, Dedicated IT merged with Medical IT Solutions in Melbourne, where it now has its second office.

“They are in high-growth mode typically, and they are frustrated and tired of technology problems. The guy they hired early on in the company isn’t cutting it any longer. That’s when we get the call.”

One of Steinhoff’s keys to success is “being cool with not being the smartest person in my company,” he said. “I have built a pretty successful company in Palm Beach County by hooking my buggy up to smart people.”

During the hiring process, Dedicated IT looks for all of these specific values in candidates – optimism, relentlessness, charisma, passion and a thirst for growth, Steinhoff said.

Dedicated IT offers its employees unlimited vacation and no-questions- asked family personal leave, he said. “We work hard but have fun.”

Steinhoff advises aspiring entrepreneurs to subscribe to Audible and ask every person they respect what books they should be reading.

What books inspired Steinhoff? “How to Win Friends and Influence People is the bible of charisma. Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone gave you permission to be obsessive about what you are passionate about. Traction by Gino Wickman is good for companies that are closing in one the million dollar revenue mark and are trying to turn a big little business into a little big business.”

Dedicated IT’s goal for 2018 is to spend more time with its best clients to figure out how its service can be even better, Steinhoff said. Within five years, Steinhoff hopes to have 20 national accounts with offices in 10 states or more and annual revenue of at least $20 million.

21
Mar, 2018

By Nancy Dahlberg

Member Spotlight | Digital Resource

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HQ: West Palm Beach
Business: A digital marketing agency
President: Shay Berman
No. of employees: 27

 

 

Shay Berman hasn’t been sleeping much – by design. He typically rests from 4 to 6:30 a.m. and again from 6 to 8:30 p.m. He read about successful people using this snooze strategy and thought he would give it a try.

And besides, who has time for sleep when you have a fast-growing tech company to run?

Berman is founder and president of Digital Resource, which helps clients with SEO, website design, social media and live chat services. “Everything we do is custom. We don’t do anything cookie cutter,” he said. “We will custom create a strategy that fits our client’s needs.”

Berman graduated from Michigan State in advertising, and while there his professors, who were also Google executives, helped him develop a proprietary link-building system for SEO. Then he founded a landscape construction company and dove into internet marketing to grow his business. He loved the marketing part and learned about management, but “being in the weeds literally myself was not what I wanted to do long term.”

Berman sold that business to a friend and moved to Palm Beach County “paradise” about five years ago. After working briefly for another marketing company, he thought he could do it better. Digital Resource was born on his couch.

Its customers are dentists, ice cream shops, car places, roofers, landscapers, pet stores, you name it. “We have clients that spend $300 a month and others are spending tens of thousands – it really depends on what they are trying to accomplish.”

Many of them come for the SEO services but social media marketing is also a big company focus.

Unfortunately, companies often don’t do that well on their own, Berman said. “They think that they don’t have to be personable through their presence or they think it will be the be-all- end-all to get them success. It has to be worked at and earned and you have to play the long game with it.”

Berman believes 2018 will be the year of video marketing but he also thinks managed live chat is underutilized: “There is no other medium online that allows you to reach out to the potential customer before they reach out to you.”

Today, Digital Resource has 27 employees, tripling in the last year because it strengthened relationships with strategic partners and focused harder on sales and client retention.

“Our goal is to double if not triple again this year,” he said. “We have hundreds of customers in the state of Florida alone. We are keeping our revenues private but I will tell you that we will place on the Inc 500 list of the 500 top companies this year. It’s not official but based on the past year we will qualify this year.”

Company culture is key, he said: “When a business gets to this size, it is the people that drive it. We try to live by our three principles in everything we do: transparency, fun, efficiency. I want my employees to feel like when they wake up in the morning this is where they really want to go.”

The office exudes energy, with writing all over every wall. Said Berman, “We call it organized chaos and it is how I think, too.”

14
Mar, 2018

By Nancy Dahlberg

Member Spotlight | Arrow Digital

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HQ: West Palm Beach; offices in Dallas. Ukraine and India
Business: A boutique digital consulting firm that builds custom software, websites
and RPA solutions.
CEO: Mark Landry
No. of employees: Over 120

 

In Arrow Digital’s West Palm Beach offices off Clematis Street, the company’s core values hang proudly on the walls. One of the first ones that a visitor sees: “We Make Our Moms Proud.”

Below the large letters, employees busily create software solutions for their customers and bounce ideas off one another while a couple of them take a break at the ping-pong table.

Teamwork is critical at Arrow Digital, a boutique digital consulting firm, and it’s why the company’s core values such as “We’re A Family,” “We’re a Teaching Hospital” and “We Know That ‘Good Enough’ Isn’t” are so important, said Robert Wells, VP of strategy.

Arrow was founded in 2005 by Ryan Morgan, and in 2007 he joined with Raul Rodila to grow the company. Now, under the direction of the two managing partners, CEO Mark Landry and an experienced leadership team, the company has more than 120 employees servicing customers such as Cracker Barrel, Hilton, GL Homes, NASCAR and a large global financial services client.

After understanding and strategically mapping out a customer’s business goals, Arrow Digital designs a customer experience and creates custom applications and large-scale websites that enable the customer to reach its goals. As the digital revolution has gained steam, Arrow launched emerging technology and services practices in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cloud Enablement, Digital Experience, User Experience and Data Analytics. Much of all this is facilitated by Arrow’s project governance program.

“Over its 12+ year history, the company has developed a deep library of IP for methodologies, governance and delivery. The company has doubled in revenue and size every two years since its inception in 2005 and was highlighted as one of the INC 5000 fastest growing companies in 2015,” said Wells, who joined Arrow in 2015. “Our biggest competitive advantage is our highly skilled people and a unified commitment to quality.”

On tap for 2018: Scaling the business and driving more growth to its RPA practice. Longer term, “we will continue to build our practice areas and innovate as new relevant technology and business needs arise,” Wells said.

To be sure, growing a tech company in Palm Beach County was difficult early on. “But with Palm Beach Tech and the resurgence of entrepreneurs, technology and innovation, it has made it easier. There is more buzz here now,” Wells said.

To keep nurturing the tech industry, Wells believes there should be a strategic focus at the county level to grow the talent pool. “With our dynamic growth, we have definitely helped bring people from other states here, that’s for sure.“

Arrow Digital’s reputation and company culture are attractors: It’s on Clematis, offers flex time, hosts events and even has a Fun Committee, Wells said. “We encourage our people to be a part of the community.”

That includes inspiring young entrepreneurs at Place of Hope and helping Palm Beach Atlantic with their business plan competition. Morgan invests in startups through New World Angels. Wells is a mentor for #MadeInPBC. Arrow manager Jeremy Lawson runs the Palm Beach Java Script Meetup that has grown from 20 people to 700-plus and also coordinates the Palm Beach Tech Hackathon for the STEM Council. Said Wells, “We’re all trying to give back.”

12
Mar, 2018

By Nikki Cabus

#MadeInPBC | Cam Collins, President @ DockMaster

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#MadeInPBC Spotlights are a weekly series of the Palm Beach Tech Association, featuring accomplished entrepreneurs in the Palm Beaches.

This week we feature Cam Collins, Florida native and the President of DockMaster Software, a West Palm Beach software company serving the marine industry.

What is your business?

Dockmaster is a vertical market software company that markets software to the marine and marina industries.

Who are your clients?

Marinas, Boat Yards, Boat Dealerships and Marine Suppliers. We have close to 4,000 users at 600 locations in 7 countries using DockMaster, our flagship marine software application.

What inspired you to become an entrepreneur?

I like solving problems and entrepreneurship fulfills that needs while giving me the independence to create something of value and connect with people in a meaningful way.

 

What’s your favorite part about what you do?

Watching people grow and succeed within our company as well as seeing customers make meaningful progress while using our products and services.

Fun Facts?

I am a 7th generation Floridian, and not one but two of my ancestors were Florida governors.

Why the Palm Beaches?

I was raised in West Palm Beach. Throughout my career, while I was offered positions at various tech companies in places like Silicon Valley or Boston, I was never able to justify leaving Florida. When the opportunity arose to invest in a company in WPB, I jumped at the chance. I prefer small to medium sized cities to larger metro areas. The combination of a growing tech community, spectacular weather and quality infrastructure made Downtown West Palm Beach a perfect fit.

How has Palm Beach Tech helped you?

We have hired 3 interns to date and each of them came from the community that Palm Beach Tech built. Since we are based in Downtown West Palm Beach, we value the Palm Beach Tech Space and the ability to walk just 2-blocks to engage with other like minded entrepreneurs. Furthermore, PBT helps to promote the Palm Beaches as a growing destination for upcoming entrepreneurs as well as technologists seeking a better lifestyle and a place to grow their careers and family.

28
Feb, 2018

By Nancy Dahlberg

Member Spotlight | ScriptSender

Read Time 3 Minutes

HQ: West Palm Beach

Business: Enables secure, instant communication between healthcare providers.

CEO: Chris Craft

No. of employees: 30

 

 

Don’t tell Chris Craft it can’t be done.

The former CIO at a healthcare system found that simply and securely sending or receiving health information, be it prescriptions, health records or other documents, was time consuming and staff intensive – not to mention archaic. That’s because the systems the doctors, labs and hospitals used weren’t compatible with one another; documents often had to be faxed and then input on the other end, an inefficient process that could be prone to errors.

But when Craft thought there had to be a better way, doctors said it couldn’t be done. The company’s board told the healthcare executive that “not everything is a technology problem to be solved.”

So on his own time, Craft built a solution and his company agreed to be the first user. In year one, the organization reaped large savings, Craft said.

If it worked for that organization, others could benefit too, Craft believed. That’s when he launched ScriptSender in New England and moved it to Palm Beach County in 2014.

“We connect healthcare systems, hospitals, specialty physicians and labs. All their systems speak different languages and it causes a lot of unnecessary work and delays in patient care,” said Craft, founder and CEO of ScriptSender. “Our software makes their systems speak the same language.”

And it has to be ridiculously easy to install and use. After all, doctors can be demanding customers.

Today, ScriptSender offers six subscription-based products, including its original product for sending scripts between entities and another for transmitting diagnostic images. They are used by major healthcare systems in every state and other countries, Craft said.

“We also work with the independent facilities [such as] the small to midsize lab or pharmacy, and we are able to provide them technology to compete at the enterprise level.”

In December alone, ScriptSender sold more subscriptions than the entire year before. Profits grew significantly last year, Craft said. Craft credits the company’s success with having a skilled team that is customer-centric.

“Every customer comes with different challenges,” said Craft. “We’ve had to be versatile and willing to change our approach and our model. Our whole product suite is built on customer need.”

Nationwide, ScriptSender has about 30 employees, and Craft expects that to double over the next 12 months in Palm Beach County.

What’s ahead? Robust growth. ScriptSender’s headquarters at 319 Clematis St. is expanding, and nine products are planned for 2018 rollout. The expansion roadmap includes South America and Australia, and more innovation is on the way. “We’re working on data projects to help our customers not only run their business better but help make better decisions about treating patients using their own data,” Craft said.

Craft likes the way the county’s close-knit tech community is developing, and he’s part of Palm Beach Tech’s education committee. “We need more continual investment, not only in retaining technical companies, but also in growing our technical resources and training.”

26
Feb, 2018

By Nikki Cabus

#MadeInPBC | Kevin Hutchinson, Founder @ MyTaskit

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#MadeInPBC Spotlights are a weekly series of the Palm Beach Tech Association, featuring accomplished entrepreneurs in the Palm Beaches.

This week we profile Kevin Hutchinson, Founder of MyTaskit, a West Palm Beach software startup with 20 employees and $12 Million in Capital Raised.

What is your business?

We are a task management platform for service pros and service businesses.

Who are your clients?

Our customers are service businesses who place a value on well-communicated and coordinated task management. Our customers include marine service businesses such as boatyards, marinas, large and small, national and international and we are expanding into the general service pro space. (Yes, we help coordinate tasks for the small Mom and Pop repair service, too!)

What inspired you to become an entrepreneur?

I started my career in sales and appreciate first-hand the value of building relationships with customers. I enjoy the art of assessing a need in the market and working to improve the relationship between the provider of a service and the end user and building effective ecosystems and links between the two.

What’s your favorite part about what you do?

I love building companies with great teams that have created unique and effective solutions for an existing problem. I enjoy applying formulas I know that have worked in past companies to tackling new challenges. With MyTaskit, I am excited to share the good news that we will vastly improve the effectiveness of service coordination between service pros and the asset owners.

Fun Facts?

Many of the MyTaskit team are boat owners and enthusiasts and we thought what better way to bring our love of being on the water by helping to improve the way in which boatyards, marinas and boat owners communicate and coordinate service and tasks. We are applying our collective marine industry knowledge to optimize the service experience.

Why the Palm Beaches?

Palm Beach is where we decided to settle because we love the area, we wanted to start MyTaskit in the marine industry and Palm Beach was an excellent way to enter the market.

How has Palm Beach Tech helped you?

Palm Beach Tech has been the quintessential business partner by consistently enhancing and sharing their network and business guidance with us. They have shared creative ways in which we might help position our business and have introduced us  to potential investors, co-marketing partners and always go out of their way to think strategically with us as we grow.

21
Feb, 2018

By Nancy Dahlberg

Member Spotlight | MyTaskit

Read Time 3 Minutes

HQ: West Palm Beach

Business: A work-coordination platform

CEO: Kevin Hutchinson

No. of employees: 21

 

What’s a successful health-tech entrepreneur doing making waves in the marine business? Let’s ask Kevin Hutchinson.

He is founder and CEO of MyTaskit, a subscription-based work coordination platform for service and repair professionals. MyTaskit started out innovating in the marine sector, but is now also navigating the 10x larger property management and construction industries, among others.

Hutchinson found similarities with building systems for coordinating patient care. He is founding CEO of Surescripts, a health information network used by most physicians and nearly all pharmacies in the U.S. Before that, his companies built one of the first electronic medical record systems, purchased by GE, and created a physician portal acquired by WebMD.

Now with startup No. 4, this serial entrepreneur isn’t slowing down.

With MyTaskit, service work is coordinated internally between staff and externally with subcontractors and customers, eliminating workflow and communication inefficiencies. “Our system takes a task, and not only is the task description there, but [technicians] can chat with the supervisor, add photos and videos, they can add labor notes and hours … and it immediately goes into the company’s accounting system,” Hutchinson said.

One of MyTaskit’s marine service customers was seeing an abundance of unscheduled overtime and didn’t know why. The company put MyTaskit in place to track jobs and communicate with workers throughout. The result, according to an independent ROI study: The company reduced unauthorized overtime by 50 percent and billing time by 44 percent.

Although Hutchinson’s vision was always big, MyTaskit first tackled recreational marine, a microcosm of other markets with its plethora of mechanical, electrical, plumbing and carpentry tasks, said the lifelong boater. Like all startups, MyTaskit made course corrections. In 2012, it was called The Boat Village, a platform enabling better communication between the consumer and business. But its business customers told Hutchinson they had a bigger problem – communicating with their own workers. After moving to Palm Beach County, MyTaskit relaunched in 2015.

Today, MyTaskit employs 21 people and has expanded into property management, construction, industrial equipment and commercial marine domestically and abroad. More than 1,000 industry professionals are using the platform. The startup has raised $12 million in financing.

While service workers haven’t typically been tech’s early adopters – just like doctors – that’s also the way to learn, Hutchinson said: “I love the guys that resist because they are going to be the ones who help you the most make a better product.”

His advice to first-time entrepreneurs: Stay resilient. “These are long hours, long days, you have to find a balanced life. But you really have to work your life into the work, not the other way around.”

Wait, he’s done this before. Doesn’t it get easier?

“You can be a parent of four kids and they will all be different. Any startup you do is going to have its own personality – with different growing pains. But by keeping the team focused, we are seeing tangible results for our customers and that is exciting to see.”

12
Feb, 2018

By Nikki Cabus

#MadeInPBC | Todd Albert & James Trivlis, Founders @ Nebular Agency

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#MadeInPBC Spotlights are a weekly series of the Palm Beach Tech Association, featuring accomplished entrepreneurs in the Palm Beaches.

This week we profile Todd Albert & James Trivlis, Founders of the Nebular Agency, a Boca Raton based digital development agency specializing in mobile & web applications.

What does your business do?

Nebular Agency designs, develops and delivers the most awesome software & digital experiences. We thrive on creating innovative and data-driven solutions for our clients.

Who are your clients?

Our clients range widely: from local start-ups ready to launch an app to Fortune 100 companies who need a custom VR experience. We’ve even created our own product called Curator, an iPad app that turns your device into a photobooth; we even have gif an boomerang options!

What inspired you to become an entrepreneur?

We were tired of making money for people and companies that seemed to be doing things the wrong way. We had a better vision and saw a way to not only be our own bosses, but to help other companies grow their businesses.

What’s your favorite part about what you do?

The teamwork! We truly love our Nebular family. We put a lot of effort into creating an environment that promotes learning from, and to building off, each other’s diverse ways of thinking and unique skillsets. Each project we take on goes through an entire UX research and design process before any code is written, so there is a lot of creative problem solving that goes on! Everyone working at Nebular has a lot of passion and takes pride in building products that our clients are psyched about.

What are three fun facts about yourself?

We’ve known each other since high school, but had much different career paths before joining forces and creating Nebular. While Todd was studying glaciers in Greenland, James was helping to bring H&M stateside. As hard as we work, we both prioritize our role as dads over anything else.

Why the Palm Beaches?

Because we’re in great company! Palm Beach is home to some really amazing tech companies and we think it’s an ideal spot for the tech industry to grow.

How has Palm Beach Tech helped you?

We love being a part of the Palm Beach Tech community and getting to interact with like-minded individuals and organizations. We’ve met some amazing people and companies, and are always looking forward to the next event.

07
Feb, 2018

By Nancy Dahlberg

Member Spotlight | Levatas

Read Time 3 Minutes

HQ: Palm Beach Gardens

Business: A digital transformation agency

CEO: Ryan Gay

No. of employees: about 100

 

Digital transformation is in this company’s DNA.

Levatas, a digital agency serving a who’s who of national brands, uses technology and data science to enhance customer experiences, said CEO Ryan Gay. “We help drive revenue, increase operational efficiencies and create better experiences for employees and customers of brands.”

It comes down to this, Gay said: “We love helping our customers solve hard problems.”

A decade ago, Levatas started in founder Chris Nielsen‘s garage as a website development company. Gay was employee No. 4. Even then, Levatas asked its customers the why questions – why do you want this website and what do you hope to get from it? That led to a lot of hows – and new solutions to help drive eyeballs to the sites.

Under Nielsen’s creative energy and Gay’s operational expertise, Levatas spread its wings, solving harder technology problems for bigger clients. About 10 years ago, Levatas built a robotic arm for Cisco’s production functions.

“That set us on the path to becoming a digital transformation agency,” said Gay, an FAU business grad.
“Today we are about 100 people strong who work for some of the biggest brands.” Those include IBM, HSBC, NextEra, Office Depot, H-P, G4S, Emerson and Dell.

For HSBC, Levatas modernizes digital customer experiences, particularly with credit card signups. As part of the banking company’s innovation initiative, Levatas runs workshops with cross-functional HSBC teams that prototype solutions and pitch them to the C-suite. For other companies, Levatas’ work includes chat bots, augmented reality and other cutting edge technologies.

“We do a lot with machine learning and data science to help brands take data silos they already have and merge them into a data warehouse that can produce insights to drive their business forward,” Gay said. “That’s where we see the market heading.”

Levatas has posted 10 straight years of growth, and has no debt. Its annual revenues are north of $10 million.

Still, Levatas can’t hire data scientists and senior architects fast enough and may open satellite offices in other U.S. cities to attract more talent. Levatas’ weapon of choice for talent retention is work-life balance.

“Our ethos is to have happy clients and to be happy ourselves.” Gay explained. “A lot of agencies do it at the expense of the team – you see high turnover, low retention, you see 70 or 80 workweeks. … That’s not who we are.”

One of Levatas’ two offices in Downtown at the Gardens opens to a congenial café atmosphere complete with a bar and ping pong. In the other, teams are casually huddled in inviting communal areas. As the team grows, it may open a “destination headquarters” in Palm Beach County, perhaps on the water, that complements its live-work- play ethos, Gay said.

Along with good salaries, Levatas offers unlimited time off, 401K matching, flexible work hours, gym memberships, free lunches and bonuses. Its GenerosiTeam makes certain Levatas actively gives back to its community and Levatas matches employees’ charitable giving.

Said Gay: “We know happy people do great work.”

29
Jan, 2018

By Nikki Cabus

#MadeInPBC | David Hartmann, Founder @ The SilverLogic

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 #MadeInPBC Spotlights are a weekly series of the Palm Beach Tech Association, featuring accomplished entrepreneurs in the Palm Beaches.

This week we feature David Hartmann, Florida Atlantic University grad and the Founder of The SilverLogic, a Boca Raton based software company that designs and builds applications, websites and marketing campaigns

What does your business do?

We like to say that we make ideas happen. What we mean with that is that we work with our clients to develop technology to help solve their problems.

Who are your clients?

We work with anyone from a Startup to an Enterprise.

What inspired you to become an entrepreneur?

Entrepreneurship runs in my family. My father runs a company in Germany and my mother runs one here in the States as well as in Germany. When I was in college, I was doing a lot of freelance

What’s your favorite part about what you do?

Is there a better job than making peoples ideas a reality? We get to work with our clients to help them take something from an “I wish I could…” or “I really want to…” and turn it into something in the real world. There is no better feeling than that.

What are three fun facts about yourself?

I grew up in Germany I have a blind, toothless cat you can pictures of on my instagram. I really enjoy escape rooms.

Why the Palm Beaches?

In all honesty? The climate. Both climates– I love the weather, I’m not a big fan of winter. But the business climate here is really beneficial as well.

How has Palm Beach Tech helped you?

The team at Palm Beach tech has been a great help in building the tech community here in the Palm Beaches. They’ve been a great advocate for us, and we are really looking forward to expanding the work that we do with them in the future.

13
Nov, 2017

By Nikki Cabus

#MadeInPBC | Adam Steinhoff, Founder @ Dedicated IT

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 #MadeInPBC Spotlights are a weekly series of the Palm Beach Tech Association, featuring accomplished entrepreneurs in the Palm Beaches.

This week we feature Adam Steinhoff, Founder & CEO of Dedicated IT, a Palm Beach Gardens Information Technology Company providing premium IT network support, hosting and consulting to businesses with 10 to 500 employees.

What is your business?

Dedicated IT is one of the fastest growing, most capable, full service technology companies in Florida. Our goal is to change the perspective that people have about IT companies and the people who work for them. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we do take what we do for our clients very seriously.

Who are your clien ts?

Dedicated IT’s clients are businesses who have had it up to “here” with IT companies. They are looking for a company who will under promise, and over deliver. They are interested in, not only fixing immediate problems, but in thinking outside the box for the strategic advantage that properly designed and implemented technology can bring them.

Dedicated IT’s clients range from law offices with seven staff members to medical facilities with hundreds of employees.

What inspired you to become an entrepreneur?

10-15 years ago, when Dedicated IT was in its infancy, this story should have been about me; about being an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember and about what inspired me to be one.

However, Dedicated IT is much bigger than me at this point; It’s about our clients who trust us with one of their most important assets: their data and the systems that store it; It’s about our employees who bend over backwards for those clients; It’s about the partners who have chosen to align themselves with Dedicated IT; It’s about the infectious culture here and that fact that people are drawn to it. It’s so NOT about Adam Steinhoff.

What’s your favorite part about what you do?

I am blessed to be the curator of an organization that attracts, employs, respects, challenges, encourages and grows people. I really feel good about enabling people to be their best and then allowing them to tackle hard problems for our clients.

Fun Facts?

Adam Steinhoff, Dedicated IT’s CEO is known to bounce down the hallway on Bounce Boots (there may even be a video of it on the Dedicated IT Facebook page).

Dedicated IT has an office in Palm Beach Gardens, Melbourne and will be in Orlando by year’s end.

Since January 2017, our team has worked over 15,500 service requests for our clients with an average response time of 4 hours 22 minutes, and an average resolution time of 11 hours 17 minutes. Of those, 397 were classified as urgent, and had an average response time of 1 hour, 18 minutes, and were resolved on average 11 hours and 3 minutes later. Oh, and 98% of the time, our clients said we were “awesome”. Only 1% said “not good” when surveyed after we wrapped up a service request.

 Why the Palm Beaches?

I feel like my answer should sound like it was written by “Visit Palm Beach,” but the fact of the matter is that I was born here. I went to school in Palm Beach County, I met my wife in Palm Beach County, We had our kids in Palm Beach County. Even as Dedicated IT expands into other markets throughout Florida, Palm Beach will always be stitched into its DNA.

How has Palm Beach Tech helped you?

Palm Beach Tech has helped me and Dedicated IT in two distinct ways:

  • Palm Beach Tech has helped us connect with the most prominent technology leaders in Palm Beach County.
  • It has provided me a place to serve and make an impact in a field in which I love.
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Oct, 2017

By Nikki Cabus

#MadeInPBC | Shay Berman, President @ Digital Resource

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#MadeInPBC Spotlights are a weekly series of the Palm Beach Tech Association, featuring accomplished entrepreneurs in the Palm Beaches.

This week we profile Shay Berman, Founder & President of Digital Resource, a digital marketing company for small and medium businesses.

What is your business?

Digital Resource is a full service South Florida SEO and internet marketing company in Downtown West Palm Beach.

Who are your clients?

Business owners of all sizes throughout the United States.

What inspired you to become an entrepreneur?

Not being able to stay inside the box.

What’s your favorite part about what you do?

The freedom to take risks and get rewards.

Fun Facts?

I almost restarted my landscape construction company before I decided that internet marketing was my passion.

Why the Palm Beaches?

The warm and sunny environment keeps not only myself but my team working hard and happy.

How has Palm Beach Tech helped you?

We are new members, but already we feel more apart of the thriving digital & tech community here in the Palm Beaches.

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