COLDEN COMPANY, INC.
SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA

Colden Company was founded in May of 2003 with the vision of providing excellent customer service while helping organizations effectively utilize technology. Colden Company places emphasis on both disaster recovery and green technology when providing technology solutions. Where did the name “Colden” originate from? Colden Company founder, Jim Lapointe, is an avid hiker. His favorite place for hiking is in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate NY, where he is a member of the 46er club. Mount Colden is one of Jim’s favorite climbs. President, James Lapointe, brings over twenty years of industry experience and a strong commitment to customer service to Colden Company. Jim is recognized by the Disaster Recovery Institute as a Certified Business Continuity Planner and he brings this perspective to the technology solutions Colden Company Inc. provides their business partners. Besides holding a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Jim also has a wealth of experience in various IT fields. He is certified by IBM as an AIX administrator, network, security and hardware certified by CompTIA (N+, A+, Sec+) and is a Microsoft Certified Professional. Jim was recognized by Who’s Who of IT professionals and has authored several articles on business continuity planning. Jim brings an understanding of technology to the issues facing businesses today as well as unparalleled attention to detail and personalized customer service. Vice President, William (Bill) Polymenakos, brings to Colden Company more than 20 years of technology industry experience in such varied roles as executive management and leadership, project management, systems architecture, support, applications development, sales, systems engineering, and consulting. Immediately prior to joining Colden Company, Polymenakos held the position of Director of Professional Services with Permessa Corporation, where he oversaw Permessa’s consulting, services, and support practices as well as all internal information technology functions. Polymenakos previously held the position of Director of Technology/CIO at Ecker Enterprises, Inc. Polymenakos’ work at Ecker earned him nominations for the Executive’s Club of Chicago/Association of Information Technology Professionals 2006 CIO of the Year and CIO Magazine 2007 Ones to Watch awards, as well as numerous press citations in such industry-leading periodicals as eWeek and InformationWeek. Prior to Ecker, Polymenakos held key roles in GlaxoSmithKline in such varied areas as managing end-user support, through managing support for a global mission-critical Lotus Domino infrastructure, through technical architect and program leader for global information systems standards for use across all divisions of the enterprise. Our Business Technology Solutions Colden Company is very responsive to Linc’s application needs.  Whether it be support issues or functionality issues, Colden’s team is knowledgeable, reliable and easy to work with.” You are a life saver! Yikes, it is amazing what a slip of the finger can do! We rely on Colden Company’s BDR service to back up our critical data across multiple locations. We know that our data is protected and when we needed to have some data restored, we could not have been happier how fast it was. The team at Colden Company makes managing our data backup easy!” With the threats of viruses and malware that can ruin data, we are very happy to have Colden Company. Their security services and BDR backups protect our data and give us offsite storage to be able to recover all of our data and gives us peace of mind.” Colden Company Inc. really backs up their words. The customer support is friendly and the response time is very fast. Since we made the switch, we have saved a bunch in IT costs and we are getting much better service than we ever had before. I recommend them to anyone! Colden Company Inc. has not only been responsive to our needs, but they have helped us anticipate our needs.  We know we can count on Colden Company as our trusted technology advisers.  They really do so much more than the typical IT services company.  I recommend them to anyone!” – Aaron Westcott Vision Business Consulting Our Business Technology Solutions Colden Company Inc. are business technology specialists who understand how critical it is to have a well-functioning IT infrastructure in your organization at a fair price. In addition to our computer services and industry knowledge, all of our employees undergo a rigorous customer service training program regardless of their position in the company. We bring managed IT services and specialty knowledge in several verticals including construction and other building trades. Colden Company Inc. takes customer service very seriously. Your comments are important to us. Colden Company comes highly recommended! “Colden Company Inc. has not only been responsive to our needs, but they have helped us anticipate our needs. We know we can count on Colden Company as our trusted technology advisors. They really do so much more than the typical IT services company. I recommend them to anyone!” – Aaron Westcott Vision Business Consulting