Brian Gill is a seasoned tech entrepreneur that has co-founded five successful tech companies. He is currently CEO of Gillware where they provide disaster recovery services to businesses experiencing data loss due to storage death, malicious employee or cyber criminal behaviors.
Brian Gill - Vroom Veer Stories
Cyber crime is everywhere it is a well funded and lucrative criminal enterprise--every business needs cyber defense--individuals tooRansomware attacks blossomed in 2015--the spin-off company that Brian created is now 3 times the size of GillwareGillware remains focused on the natural disaster events for data recovery--such as cat pee on my laptop varietyGrew up in Sun Prairie Wisconsin outside of Madison; lived on a farm with BB guns and .22's--mostly shot at pumpkins; never liked killing varmints; now he feeds all the animals in his yard including squirrels Had a PC Jr. when he was a kid, no storage only memory; if he wanted to play hang-man he had to type in the program and not turn off the computerIn High School, Brian just showed up and got A's he didn't have to work at it; that changed in college when he tried Electrical Engineering he found himself in the bottom third of the grade pool; changed to computer science and made the Dean's listAfter College bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco to get in on the tech start-up game; drove one exit away from the airport and rented an apartment; then realized he was 45 minutes away from SF!Worked in the SF area in tech start ups for about 4 years; then the dot com bubble popped; decided to move back to Wisconsin--got a job for the Wisconsin State Government One of Brian's best friends from College turns out to be a genius in Nuclear Engineering; they started Gillware together in Wisconsin--life is pretty good with a Genius as a business partner
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