GILLIS & COMPANY, INC.
FT. MYERS, FLORIDA

Our proven approach motivates and inspires innovation. We helps people and teams to achieve their potential with new and better ways to solve problems and to produce favorable outcomes. We enjoy working hard and welcome chances to do the heavy lifting that produces real business results. Armed with proven best practices and well versed in theories and science there is no substitute for hard work. Great ideas. strategies, and new business models are only worthwhile when the business is able to successfully transform. We understand business transformation, its difficulties and we know how to help. Making money from your idea, strategy, and execution Thank you for your interest in our cause. All businesses big or small deserve the highest levels of client experience. We are proud to help our clients by sharing our experience, creativity, relationships, and our proven ability to execute. We are committed to developing successful clients that are delighted with the value they receive from our work. I created the Gillis Company to share the value my experiences, passion, and creativity with people and companies that are doing important things. Thirty years of successful technology industry entrepreneurship- intrapreneurship and several complete business lifecycles have taught me valuable lessons. I really learned to align business and personal goals across complex organizations. With this technique, I have learned to: identify, qualify, and execute on emerging opportunities; develop strategic alliances; create differentiation and sustainable competitive advantage; recruit and retain the best talent by inspiring them with a sense of purpose; build lasting meaningful relationships, and very importantly – I learned how to create value. I want to use these skills to help good people and good companies to become even better, even bigger, and even more valuable. I want to help people create relationships and value that inspires pride and satisfaction for themselves and their families. Each of the businesses that Gillis Company works with are run by people that I personally admire and are doing things that I consider important. I will often invest in them. Each member of the Gillis Company is exceptional and driven to achieve their human potential. They are also very nice people who share a common value system and that I would be proud to consider as friends. While growing up my dad used to tell me, ‘the ultimate luxury in life is to choose the people you work with’, I couldn’t agree more. Hi Mike. So what brings you back into business? I get really charged up about helping people and teams to achieve their potential. I think that as people come closer to achieving their potential, everyone benefits from the person, their families, their customers, and their employers. Really society at large benefits when people achieve their potential as professionals but also as human beings, as friends as family, you know in every aspect of their lives. Well, you can feel it in your heart but you can also see signs. I think that when people are achieving they are engaged in their lives. It shows up both personally and professionally. They have often have happier relationships with more longevity. They do better work and have happier customers. They innovate a lot more and collaborate a lot better when they know that they are coming closer to their god-given potential. As a business, the businesses are usually more profitable and enjoyable. What exactly is Gillis Company going to do? Like always, we are going to ‘serve our clients’. I believe that serving people is the most dignified and noble of things. Now more specifically, there is great opportunity to help traditional software + services businesses make the transformation to true cloud, subscription businesses. I have been studying and working on this challenge for a while and there is a lot to it both science and feel to getting it right. But there is a real opportunity to be a part of a great swing that will result in serving customers better. Cloud computing finally making some older ideas practical. When I was growing up in the business, we thought and studied a lot about expert systems and natural language processing but the computing horsepower and the storage was all too expensive for commercial application. Now with cloud and new frameworks like Microsoft’s Cognitive Intelligence, it is becoming commercially viable. Our proven approach motivates and inspires innovation. We helps people and teams to achieve their potential with new and better ways to solve problems and to produce favorable outcomes. We enjoy working hard and welcome chances to do the heavy lifting that produces real business results. Armed with proven best practices and well versed in theories and science there is no substitute for hard work. Great ideas. strategies, and new business models are only worthwhile when the business is able to successfully transform. We understand business transformation, its difficulties and we know how to help. Making money from your idea, strategy, and execution Thank you for your interest in our cause. All businesses big or small deserve the highest levels of client experience. We are proud to help our clients by sharing our experience, creativity, relationships, and our proven ability to execute. We are committed to developing successful clients that are delighted with the value they receive from our work. I created the Gillis Company to share the value my experiences, passion, and creativity with people and companies that are doing important things. Thirty years of successful technology industry entrepreneurship- intrapreneurship and several complete business lifecycles have taught me valuable lessons. I really learned to align business and personal goals across complex organizations. With this technique, I have learned to: identify, qualify, and execute on emerging opportunities; develop strategic alliances; create differentiation and sustainable competitive advantage; recruit and retain the best talent by inspiring them with a sense of purpose; build lasting meaningful relationships, and very importantly – I learned how to create value.