Bradman Group, Inc. - Company Information

Our Roots

Bradman Group, Inc. was founded in December 2007 by Robert Bradman in response to growing technology challenges that regularly plague the start-up and growth businesses. Throughout his fourteen-year information technology career in both start-ups and large international conglomerates, Bradman noticed that the same core problems cause the same old problems. Each of the problems had varying degrees of severity, either scaling with the company or hindering the company from scaling.

In the spring of 2007, after having spent nearly six years of managing the technology enterprise for a subsidiary of Experian North America and seeing the gross technology issues that affected every new corporate acquisition, Bradman decided that enough was enough for the small- to medium-sized business.

The Mission: No Easy Task

Our mission is to help the small- to medium-sized businesses achieve higher levels of success through superior balancing of both business and technology needs.

Our philosophy is that every business, regardless of its size or market, relies on technology every day to meets its customers’ demands. From datacenters to desktops, technology touches and supports every component of a business. In the same way that a sales team brings revenue to support the growth of the business, so too does technology and systems enable the sales team to function effectively. Successful executive management realizes the importance of every organizational component in the business and how the performance of each component affects the others.

Our goal is to help our clients effectively perform that delicate balancing act via short-term triage and long-term goal-oriented planning throughout their information technology landscape.

Robert Bradman
President

Robert started his information technology career in 1994 by helping to start one of the Midwest’s first Internet Service Providers. Starting in the technology trenches wearing multiple hats (marketing, management, technical support, and system engineering) in the founding days of the dot-com boom and being a first-hand witness of the IT revolution provided him invaluable insight into diverse technology strategies. After serving in various technology management roles in companies such as Bozell Worldwide, Experian North America, and the Omaha World-Herald, Robert decided to return to the fast-paced world of the SMB by bringing them the enterprise-level business and technology experience needed to attain peak business value.

Joe Olsen
Member, Board of Directors

Since 1997, Joe Olsen has become a renown national knowledge expert in the interactive software development space. As a Microsoft software consultant and architect, Joe helped many small, medium, and large fortune 500 businesses implement imaginative and engaging emerging media solutions across multiple platforms. Olsen also founded and continues to operate the Heartland Developers Conference, the nation's largest independent professional Microsoft development conference. In 2003 he founded Phenomblue, a multi-national digital design and technology collective focused on providing marketing and branding solutions to some of the world’s biggest agencies and brands. Today Phenomblue is a recognized industry leader in interactive strategic marketing, creative design, and technology implementation.

James F. O'Gorman website | rss
Member, Board of Directors

In his twelve years of working in information technology, James has worked in consulting, support, and managerial positions at companies across a spectrum of industries. Specializing in information security, James has made contributions in to the industry in the way of speaking engagements, papers, tool and process development that have been made available to the community. A member of the SANS advisory board, the GIAC advisory board, and the Omaha ISSA chapter, James holds CISSP, GCIA and GCFA certifications. James is also a member of the SANS Local Mentor Program and regularly educates information security students and professionals from his pool of experience. James currently works as a Senior Consultant for Continuum Worldwide in Omaha, Nebraska.

Eric B. Oxley
Member, Board of Directors

Eric obtained his J.D. magna cum laude from CUA Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. and B.S.B.A. in finance from Creighton University in Omaha, NE. A subject matter expert in business, mergers and acquisitions, securities, and finance law, he bears a wealth of experience from working with some of the largest and most successful businesses in the Midwest. Eric currently practices law at Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O.

Why are there no brands or vendors listed here?

Our business is such that we work for our clients, not third-parties. Our goal is to help your business succeed by working with you to implement strategy, not to sell you the latest and greatest piece of equipment.

We maintain high-level management relationships with manufacturers and software publishered directly. This puts our clients in a far better position when it comes time to negotiate contracts by avoiding the pitfalls of dealing through the VAR sales channels.

Our product and vendor neutrality naturally keeps our focus strictly on our clients and not on our margins.