3 Questions with Chicago’s John Ahlberg, Waident Technology Solutions

John Ahlberg, CEO and founder of Chicago based Waident Technology Solutions, tackles 3 questions MSPs want to know. We asked:

• You’ve said you embrace “the weird” in hiring. What’s the strangest interview response that ended up being a great hire?
• What’s one outdated IT practice that too many MSPs still cling to?
• What’s been the hardest moment in Waident’s 20-year journey, and how did you overcome it?

Meet John Ahlberg

John Ahlberg takes simple or complex business processes and helps to inject order and technology into them, providing compelling results. Out of the box strategist. Continually being the advocate to the client and user. Security consultant to ensure clients are following best practices and implement the cyber-security they need to minimize risk. His hobbies include fly fishing, golf, Aikido, Disney, and hanging out with family.

About Waident Technology Solutions

Waident Technology Solutions is a SOC 2 cybersecurity and IT outsourcer that supports and manages SMB technology in Chicago, Milwaukee, and across the Midwest. We help organizations keep their people productive, their enterprise running, and their company data safe. Since our inception, we have attracted pragmatic business owners. Practical businesspeople understand that IT is a powerful business enabler but it’s not a panacea and is far from perfect. Companies that depend on IT as a strategic business tool don’t want to rely on IT “cowboys” gunslinging a “Break-Fix” attitude toward prevention and “this-might-work” approach to solutions.

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