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Uprise Partners CEO Malinda Gagnon Recognized as 2021 Next-Gen Solution Provider Leader

CRN recently recognized Uprise CEO Malinda Gagnon as a 2021 Next-Gen Solution Provider Leader.

CRN recently recognized Uprise Partners CEO Malinda Gagnon as a 2021 Next-Gen Solution Provider Leader.  

CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, annually recognizes today’s rising-star solution provider executives, directors, and managers who are poised to be tomorrow’s channel leaders.

“Gagnon founded Uprise to help small and mid-size companies manage their IT, product engineering and digital marketing operations as they grow. More recently she has been recruiting partners to offer their clients managed services in infrastructure management, helpdesk support, backup and disaster recovery, and cybersecurity – the latter a major area of focus this year for Gagnon. She is also pioneering efforts to bring automation concepts, increasingly common in IT, to other areas of business operations.”

See the complete list of CRN’s 2021 Next-Gen Solution Provider Leaders.

Uprise Partners is also MSP 500 for 2021. CRN named Uprise to its 2021 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Security 100 category. Read more.

Malinda Gagnon

Malinda is CEO at Uprise and has more than 20 years of experience in business strategy and technology at companies including Google and WPP, and has advised clients such as Procter & Gamble, General Electric, VW, BlackRock, and Walmart.

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