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Abacus: MSP M&A Still Comes Down to People, Culture and Customer Outcomes, Podcast
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By Doug Green “The most important thing in a services business is the people.” In this Technology Reseller News podcast recorded at MSP Summit, Jonathan Bohrer, Global President of Abacus, discusses the changing MSP mergers and acquisitions market, what makes an acquisition work and why culture remains as important as financial performance. Abacus is an MSP focused on highly regulated industries, particularly financial services and healthcare. Its services span core IT and infrastructure, cybersecurity, penetration testing, incident response, vulnerability assessment and AI enablement and governance. Bohrer brings an unusual perspective to M&A...
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Hey everybody, it's Doug Green and I'm the publisher of Technology Reseller News. And we're back here at MSB Summit and I'm very pleased to have with me today Jonathan Borra, who is the global president of Abacus. Jonathan, thank you for joining me.
Hi Doug, thanks for having me. So we're here talking about almost everybody's favorite topic if you're an MSP. M&A, mergers and acquisitions, an eventual goal. Maybe being able to sell your company, maybe being able to purchase or merge with another company.
It's always usually good news, can be not such great good news. We'll talk more about that. Jonathan will be here at this conference talking about beyond the trillion Decoding the investment playbook transforming the MSP economy. So we'll be diving into that in just a second. But Jonathan, what is abacus?
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