Larry Keating is founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of No Panic Computing. Larry is also founder, President and CEO of Keating Technologies Inc. Since 1987 Keating Technologies has been Canada’s leading branch outsourcing service to the high technology industry, bringing more than $1 billion in technology products and services to Canadian businesses and consumers. At Keating he developed the award-winning Total Market Management® service that has provided outsourced sales, marketing, and technical services through national, exclusive contracts with the industry’s leading brands. Prior to Keating, Larry was regional manager for a computer products distributor, and spent his early business years at R.L. Crain.

Larry was the founding Chairman of the Ministers’ Technology Advisory Group for the Province of Ontario. The group was an ad hoc committee offering vision and industry insight to the Province’s technology strategy, with the goal of making Ontario the most technologically progressive society in the world. He was also a former member of the Chair’s Advisory Council on e-Government for the Province of Ontario.

Larry is a speaker on a variety of topics including technology trends, technology’s socio-economic impact, and economic opportunity through the adoption and deployment of new technologies. Most recently he was a keynote address at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce Annual General Meeting.

Larry is active on a number of advisory boards and committees such as Blue Planet Environmental, Oxy-BioPlast Inc., past Chairman of the Board of Vanity Software Corp, advisory member of the Seneca College Campaign Cabinet, and past Vice Chair of the Premier’s Technology Dinner.

Larry and his companies support a wide variety of not-for-profit organizations such as Ability OnLine, Operation Herbie, Yellow Brick House and Youth Unlimited.

Bill Keating is Vice-President, Technology and Operations, and Chief Security Officer, No Panic Computing. Bill is a certified electronic technologist with more than 21 years of experience in information technology management and technical support services. Before starting No Panic Computing, Bill co-founded Keating Technologies Inc.

As Vice President, Technology and Operations of Keating Technologies for the past 21 years, Bill and his team have handled more than 4.5 million multilingual technical, customer care calls and logistics transactions for some of the world’s leading technology brands, winning numerous performance and customer satisfaction awards.

Bill is a hard-driving entrepreneur who has proven his philosophy over the past two decades that a superior customer care strategy combined with high quality infrastructure and a spirited well-managed team leads to outstanding customer satisfaction. His passion for his four boys at home and coaching junior hockey leads his involvement in the community.

As Vice President, Finance and Administration of Keating Technologies Inc. for the past 12 years, James’ financial leadership has been an essential to Keating’s extraordinary record of profitability and compliance success. James developed a proprietary activity based costing model for Keating which became a factor in Keating’s three coveted Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies award.

Prior to Keating James was Corporate Group Controller for The Horn Group – a diversified group of more than 10 companies in the manufacturing, distribution and real estate sectors. Prior to The Horn Group he worked for Honeywell Information Systems in the development of accounting, payroll, sales and MRPII business applications.

Tom's career has been marked by repeatedly taking risks on joining start-up operations and using his sales and marketing skills to help develop and establish their businesses into market leading positions.

He was a founding employee in charge of marketing for ATI Technologies in 1984 where he helped establish ATI’s branding, corporate and product positioning and launched ATI’s first 9 video cards. In 1996, he was a founding employee in charge of marketing at MGI Software where he helped establish branding and positioning to take on and beat industry heavyweights in the digital home photo editing market.

Even within established companies Tom helped launch several new entrepreneurial ventures. For example in 1993 he helped AST successfully enter the Canadian market and in just 3 years led marketing and channel sales to help drive AST to #1 market share in the consumer PC market, #1 share in notebook PC’s and #3 share overall. He returned to ATI in 1997 and spent 5 years as Vice President of Distribution Sales for the Americas. He helped propel ATI into sustained #1 market share in the retail, distribution and system builder channels, growing the Americas business from 60,000 video cards per month to over 350,000.

Tom holds a Master of Business Administration Degree and a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from the Schulich School of Business at York University.

Leading the way in unchartered media and mediums, Brennan brings with him a strong business background and a keen sense of entrepreneurship.  Brennan launched his career with the well respected brand of General Electric in 1997, introducing his division to rich online media prior to the widespread adoption of the technology throughout the company.  From there he launched a series of privately held companies that specialized in leading edge creative and technical know-how that leveraged the best of the internet for his clients. 

As President and CEO of Progressive Mouse, founded by Brennan in 1999, the company grew to become the preferred outsource interactive media and web application supplier of choice for Teranet Inc., primarily in the development of Canada’s primary legal portal, Bar-eX. PM’s eCommerce platform provided the foundation upon which legal suppliers and continuing education providers could market their offerings to Canadian legal firms.  From there Brennan continued to demonstrate and expand his entrepreneurial spirit by being a seed investor and development partner in 3Genius Corporation, a successful online hotel booking company with holdings such as canadianhotelguide.com, and sweetrate.com, booking millions of hotel rooms across the country annually.

Finally prior to bringing his expertise to No Panic Computing, Brennan also helped privately fund and develop the innovative online entertainment platform moola.com, the first platform to successfully marry a rewards program with the casual gaming market.  Brennan holds a degree in Media, Information, and Technoculture from the University of Western Ontario.