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Swimming in the Whale's Wake with Geoff Bloss of BCM One
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http://www.bridgepointetechnologies.com | On this week’s episode of The Bridge, I sit down with Geoff Bloss, CEO at BCM One, to discuss investing in voice technology, acquisitions, and more.
BCM One is a leading provider of NextGen Communications and Managed Services to IT leaders and channel resellers nationwide. Serving over 18,000 customers and 5,000+ channel resellers, BCM One offers UCaaS, SIP Trunking, Managed SIP, Microsoft Teams, Managed SD-WAN, SASE, Global Managed Connectivity, Microsoft Professional Services, Technology Expense Management, and Network Monitoring and Management.
During this conversation, we talk about the COVID era, collaboration, investments, revolutions versus evolutions
and why voice technology is considered the most mission-critical application within businesses, especially during the transition to remote or hybrid workforces.
Topics covered in this episode:
● The role of voice technology within organizations.
● How BCM One excels in providing complex voice solutions and partnering with clients to architect full solutions that adapt to changing environments.
● The challenges of hybrid work.
● How the role of the office and office workers is being redefined, and why the burden of managing hybrid work is not necessarily reduced
● How BCM One evaluates potential acquisitions based on geographic expansion, service enhancement, and unique capabilities.
● Why businesses are rationalizing their investments in voice and collaboration services.
● How budgetary constraints and the desire for rational thought and planned deployment are driving the need to harmonize voice investments.
● Why providers like BCM must focus on crafting their unique value propositions while coexisting with larger providers like Microsoft and Cisco.
● Why Operator Connect is an easier way for end customers to bring their own provider into the Microsoft Teams environment.
● The importance of being prepared to adapt and alter strategies and businesses to meet a changing and dynamic environment.
ABOUT GEOFF BLOSS
Geoff Bloss is Chief Executive Officer for BCM One and it’s family of brands including SIP.US, SIPTRUNK and SkySwitch. BCM One provides NextGen Communications and Managed Services to over 17,000 clients/IT leaders of mid- to enterprise-level businesses nationwide, and serves over 2,000 channel partners, VARs, and MSPs.
Bloss joined BCM One in 2012 and served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer before being appointed to the role of CEO early in 2019 to lead the company to the next level of growth. He is also a member of the company’s Board of Directors.
Bloss previously served as Chief Information Leader at FlightSafety International, a $1B Berkshire Hathaway company. Earlier in his career, Bloss built deep expertise in the telecommunications industry, providing strategic and program management consulting and deploying operational support systems.
Bloss received an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a B.S. in Mathematical Science with Honors from the University of North Carolina. He was selected as one of QuantumShift’s Top Entrepreneurs in America for 2019 by KPMG LLP’s Private Markets Group and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
CONTACT GEOFF
LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffbloss/
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