Staff

Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge. With a background in hands-on solution building and training delivery, Alastair has been active in the IT infrastructure community and as an industry analyst for over ten years.

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Andrew Blackburn is an event video editor at Tech Field Day, where he brings years of film and editing experience to Tech Field Day. He collaborates with the production and event teams to create high quality video of Tech Field Day events.

In his free time, Andrew enjoys photography and flying over Northeast Ohio in his hot air balloon. Andrew works out of the Hudson, Ohio office.

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Cassidee Marlow is the Event Coordinator for Tech Field Day at The Futurum Group. With a background in event planning and logistics, Cassidee brings an eye for detail and a passion for high quality experiences for both delegates and presenters. She works closely with the entire Tech Field Day team to ensure each event runs smoothly and delivers value to the tech community.

Outside of work, Cassidee enjoys cooking and exploring local coffee shops. On weekends, she’s often binge watching Netflix shows with her fiancé. Cassidee is based out of the Hudson, Ohio office.

Corey Dirrig is the Social Media Specialist at Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day, bringing years of community building and leadership experience to the table. He works alongside his colleagues to organize, build, create, and share content across social media. He also manages the content on the Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day websites. Corey is most excited about building the community both through social and in-person interactions at Tech Field Day. 

Outside of work, Corey is most likely playing video games, watching something nerdy, writing for his website, or recording his own podcasts and content for his YouTube channel. He is also a husband, father of two, avid Browns and Cavs fan, artist, and lover of burritos. Corey works out of the Hudson, Ohio office.

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As a long-time delegate, Keith has participated in over 35 Field Day Events. He has participated in Cloud, Data Center, Networking, AI, and Storage events. With over 25 years of experience advising, managing, and designing enterprise architecture, Keith brings a unique IT decision-maker lens to Field Day events.

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Matt Garvin is the Operations Manager for the Tech Field Day team and brings many years of leadership, event management, and logistics support. He works closely with Delegates, presenters, and Tech Field Day colleagues to help ensure successful endeavors and projects for a wide variety of clients.

When not at work, Matt is probably playing some sort of game: most commonly board games, video games, or sports. Matt is also a Dad of 4, Cleveland sports enthusiast, and wannabe movie buff. Matt works out of the Hudson, Ohio office.

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Owen Lindsley is the Senior Account Director at Tech Field Day, bringing a decade of sales and account management to the team. He works alongside his colleagues to develop and manage relationships with acquired and/or existing customers in order to gain strategic positioning with decision makers, attain additional business, and expand into new markets.

Outside of work, Owen is most likely playing video games, lifting weights, walking his dogs, or playing DnD with friends. He is a huge college football fan and enjoys supporting all the Texas A&M sports teams.

Rachael Fritz is the Event Manager for Tech Field Day team within The Futurum Group. She brings her years of customer service and leadership experience from hospitality to Tech Field Day and works alongside the Delegates, presenters, and the Futurum team to organize successful Tech Field Day events. Rachael enjoys the international travel the most with her position.

After work you can find Rachael walking her dogs around the neighborhood or binge-watching Grey’s Anatomy, again. On the weekends she is adventuring to someplace new with her wife and friends or enjoying a sporting event with family. Rachael works out of the Hudson, Ohio office.

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group. An active participant in the world of enterprise information technology, Stephen currently focuses on AI, edge, and cloud, and is a long-time voice in enterprise storage.

Stephen organizes the popular Tech Field Day event series for The Futurum Group, bringing a panel of independent technical content creators together with leading companies in the industry. We organize our Field Day events throughout the year in different topics, and also bring our community to industry events. Stephen also hosts the weekly Utilizing Tech podcast, and contributes to numerous podcasts, webcasts, and industry news reports.

A graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he studied the impact of technology and society, Stephen has lived in northeast Ohio for a decade. He frequently travels to Silicon Valley for Field Day events and appears on-stage, in analyst and press panels, and behind the scenes at events around the world.

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Sulagna Saha is a writer at Gestalt IT where she covers all the latest things in enterprise IT. For the last three years, she has focused on areas like cloud computing, AI, cybersecurity, application development, data storage and networking, writing about the various technologies and solutions in these ecosystems.

These are deeply technical subjects. So she likes to dig into the details, and help the readers break through the jargons and consume the information easily, regardless of their specialties.
Her stories talk about how the solutions can help their intended users navigate the day-to-day responsibilities at work, and why IT companies should adopt a certain technology over the others.

Sulagna talks to company leaders, software engineers, SMEs and spokespeople to bring new research and an insider perspective to her work.
In her free time, she can be found spending time with her toddler, browsing a book or experimenting in the kitchen. Traveling and movies are other things she loves.

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Tom Hollingsworth, CCIE #29213, is an event lead for the Tech Field Day events series. He also writes about networking and related technolgies on his blog at http://networkingnerd.net. With over 18 years of experience in the IT field, Tom has covered the breadth of technology from desktop deployment to data center installation. He brings his unique perspective to his writing both on his blog and at Network Computing. Tom can also be found prognosticating and commenting about technology from his Twitter account @networkingnerd.

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