MSPAlliance Business Advisors

MSPAlliance Advisors are experts in a variety of areas related to managed services. As a benefit to our members, the MSPAlliance has created this special listing of advisors to bring additional resources to our diverse membership body. Please check back often as this list of advisors will be growing over time. If you would like to become an MSPAlliance Business Advisor and have a long standing proven track record in the IT Channel, please email celia@mspalliance.com 

David Schafran

Transformation Strategies works with MSPs, IT consulting and support companies to integrate or enhance managed services within their offerings. Through consulting, coaching, training and executive peer groups, Transformation Strategies helps companies increase revenue, reduce service delivery costs and position their services to scale.

Our process begins by understanding our client’s business and core strengths.  As each client is different, our services are tailored to their individual needs. We can focus on all areas of an MSP or just a particular aspect.

Transformation Strategies’ holistic approach is based on the principles that success in managed services is contingent on the MSP understanding its client’s needs and all areas of an MSP working cohesively together. This includes sales, marketing, technical operations & support, administration and management.  It is only with all of these parts working together that an MSP can achieve the scalability required for long term success.

For more information please visit us at http://www.TransStrat.com, email us at info@TransStrat.com or call us at 212-799-1770

Stuart Selbst

Stuart Selbst is known in the channel as a partner advocate, advisor and business coach. His ongoing effort to help IT firms get organized to grow and become profitable has positioned him as an expert and trustworthy resource.

Stuart owns Stuart Selbst Consulting, a vendor neutral consulting and business training company offering business development and executive level coaching to MSPs of all sizes. Our coaching program aligns sales, marketing and business processes along with goal setting to achieve success. In 2009, the partners that Stuart coached had an average of 68% growth in revenue and some clients achieved over 300% in revenue growth.



Stuart continues to plays an active role as a channel advocate working to make MSP’s successful and assets to their clients. He has spoken and presented at many industry events including CompTIA Breakaway and MSP Summit, MSP Revolution, SMB Nation Fall ’09 and in March 2010, Stuart and his company put on Spring Training for Business. In 2010, Stuart was named by MSP Alliance as the first endorsed MSP Advisor. 

Stuart can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/stuarselsbt, Facebook at www.facebook.com/coachstu and on his popular blog.

To find out more about Stuart and his company Stuart Selbst Consulting, go to www.stuartselbst.com.

Brian Sherman

Tech Success Communications, LLC specializes in marketing communications support for technology companies, specifically for IT channel vendors and resellers. Founder and Director Brian Sherman is a polished writer and business development professional with extensive experience in the IT channel. As a former editor of Business Solutions magazine and marketing director at Autotask (providers of the leading business software platform for IT services organizations), he understands the role of vendors, distributors and, especially the channel providers.

Tech Success Communications offers high-tech firms a top quality alternative to in-house resources for external communication needs and market development.  The firm is dedicated to creating case studies, corporate executive opinion pieces, white papers and other marketing/communications materials for IT channel-focussed organizations. Managed services, software as a service, and other emerging industry trends are specialty areas for the firm, with custom content development for the appropriate audience.

For more information, go to www.techsuccesscommunications.com