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What was your first venture?
My first venture, Rockland IT
Solutions, was established with
Congruity360 co-founder Sean
Brady in 2006. Rockland IT
was a very successful business
that specialized in selling and
supporting data storage hardware.
Rockland IT led Sean and me to
the creation of another spinoff,
MSDI, which layered managed
services on top of the enterprise
hardware solutions Rockland IT
was accustomed to selling to create
a more comprehensive offering to
our customer base. From the start
of my career, I have understood the
importance of quickly pivoting when
the market changes or when fresh
ideas arise.
What were the initial
challenges that your
company faced?
In our initial years, Sean and I
worked around the clock to grow
Rockland IT. The difficulty of
trying to scale rapidly made us
quickly aware that we couldn’t do
it by ourselves. We got comfortable
bringing on more team members
and starting to delegate, which left
us able to better focus on strategy
and operational management. We
learned to work smarter while still
working hard.
How do you maintain your
customers’ trust and loyalty?
We try to stay in constant
communication with our customers
to address any challenges or
problems they experience. We
become trusted advisors not
just sales representatives to our
customers, maintaining open
communication within our accounts,
therefore helping us build and
maintain trust and loyalty. We
work to harness our relationships
with our customers by cultivating
personal relationships, like spending
time with them sharing our
industry knowledge, providing key
consultations, as well as maintaining
strong SLAs.
What would you say makes
your company productive?
Our employees are our biggest
asset. Throughout the years we’ve
gone through many changes and
our employees have always worked
through them and embraced our
mission for success and innovation.
Without such a dedicated and
experienced team, we wouldn’t be
able to innovate and grow as we
have in the past.
Secondly, the market today is flooded
with vendors that sell point solutions
to customers, instead of vendors
that sell true solutions to business
challenges. When you couple our
expertise with data and the way it
is stored and managed alongside
our 20yrs of experience in the legal
world, you start to bridge the gap
between legal and IT and what
is created is a foundation for our
customers to gain valuable insight
from analytics, while also ensuring
they stay compliant with the ever-
changing regulations around user
privacy and control. Congruity360
is unique because we take a holistic
approach to problem-solving when it
comes to data management—where
other companies address single
issues that leave businesses void of a
scalable solution for the future.
Would you say that your
company is a leader or a
follower?
Congruity360 is a leader and we
formulate our own core values:
we bring order to data chaos. Our
solutions keep your data secure,
healthy, and agile – exposing reliable
data sets that empower you to make
intelligent business decisions. We
focus on innovation; our leadership
team strives to stay ten steps ahead
of the industry in its current state.
When planning for the future we
consider where the industry will be,
not the status quo of the industry.
Our entire organization values this
dedication to growth and expanding
their own knowledge basis to best
serve the organization and our
customers.
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Meet the maverick
entrepreneur behind
Congruity360’s success,
Brian Davidson
Brian Davidson is a CEO,
Managing Partner and
Co-founder of Congruity360, a
data management and managed
services provider born of the merger
of Congruity LLC and KNJ, Inc. in
2017. Congruity360 takes a holistic
approach to data management,
offering data classification,
compliance, litigation readiness,
and intelligent migrations. Brian’s
professional career originated
with the formation of Rockland
IT Solutions, a provider of third-
party maintenance and refurbished
storage & networking hardware, the
first venture he co-founded with
partner Sean Brady in 2006. He co-
founded MSDI, a managed and data
center services provider, in 2010.
The union of Rockland IT Solutions
and MSDI led to the formation of
Congruity LLC, a data management
and managed services provider
that redefined the complete storage
lifecycle management experience,
and ultimately to the formation
of Congruity360. Brian holds a
Bachelor of Science in Finance
with a minor in Accounting and
Psychology from the University of
New Hampshire.
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