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Bio
Oli Thordarson is CEO of Alvaka Networks, a provider of network security and network management services. Oli has 20 years experience running his own companies in the Information Technology industry and is proud of the success of his entirely self-funded companies. Oli is founding chairman of Intel backed Global MSP Network, an international consortium of companies providing network management services. When not running Alvaka Networks, Oli serves on the editorial advisory council for computer industry publications. Oli was recently appointed to the national board of the American Electronics Association, the association for the high tech industry and also serves on the board of the Discovery Science Center. In January 2005 Alvaka Networks was named as one of the “20 to Watch” by CRN magazine and in 2004 Alvaka Networks won the NASBA/Gartner Top VAR award. In September 2002 Alvaka Networks won the Gartner Group VAR Vision 2002 Business Achievement Award. In November 2001, Oli was named as one of the computer industry’s Top 20 Visionaries, earned the 2001 BTA Award of Excellence, and in 2000 Alvaka won the Solution Integrator award for best Remote Network Management Solution.
Alvaka Networks, headquartered in Irvine, California, is a leading provider of network management, monitoring, security and integration services. Alvaka's core purpose is to constantly improve the way networks are managed and secured. AlvakaNet and NetSecure, Alvaka's flagship service products, are a comprehensive set of network management, monitoring and security services that provide Alvaka Networks' clients with guaranteed 24x7 uptime and lower Total Cost of Ownership. In 25 years of business, Alvaka Networks has seen a lot of broken network systems. They are usually unsecured, poorly designed, over-burdened, don’t work right and no one knows what the last guy did to it. Alvaka Networks fixes all that!
Oli is married with 3 children. He lives and works in southern California and is an avid outdoorsman, races motorcycles off-road and road races a Corvette Z06 in the SCCA T1 class.
