Leadership

William G. Fistori, President

Bill has 15 years of professional experience in the information technology industry, primarily in professional & support services. Prior to joining DeVA (now Covisia), Bill was the Operations Coordinator and Project Manager, Far East Division, for GTECH., an on-line gaming systems company headquartered in West Greenwich, RI. After GTECH, Bill was hired by DeVA Systems Group, Inc., where he served as Director of Sales and Business Development. He then went on to solely acquire DeVA Systems Group, becoming President and CEO. Bill had grown the company by 20% per year over a 9 year period, spanning from 1998 to 2007. The company made the Inc. 500 (#284) in 1999 and became one of the top Citrix and Microsoft partners in the United States between the years of 1999 to 2007. In 2008, Bill acquired stock in Aegis Associates which led to the merger of DeVA and Aegis, more than doubling their size. Covisia Solutions is now recognized as one of the largest and most successful IT services and support providers in New England.

Bill is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and is an active member of the Entrepreneurs Organization, since 1999. He is also involved in many information technology trade organizations including the prestigious True Profit Groups.

 

Brian Mullaney, Vice President

Brian is a partner at Covisia, and is the Vice President of Sales. Brian is responsible for the focused sales efforts around managed services, networking and unified communications. Prior to working with Bill to form Covisia, Brian was at Aegis Associates for 12 years where he started as a sales executive. In 1999, Brian was promoted to Sales Manager and Vice President of Aegis. While overseeing the sales department, Brian grew sales from 6 million to over 13 million in revenue, and established Aegis as a top Cisco solutions provider in New England. This was done while transitioning the business from 80% hardware resale to fifty percent services revenue.

Brian graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with a BA in Political Science.

Steve Romboli, Chief Operating Officer

Steve Romboli has over 30 years experience in the IT industry; primarily in professional services and software support. Prior to joining Covisia, Steve was Vice President and General Manager of North America Operations for MSG International, a Brussels-based software solutions company, where he directed worldwide solution deployments. Prior to MSG, Steve served as Chief Operating Officer of Vikor, Inc., a CRM solutions integration company; and as Vice President of Products and Services at Sequoia Systems Inc., where he was led the company's strategic service initiatives, worldwide technical support and international business units. Steve also was Vice President of Technical Support at Bull Worldwide Information Systems and has held a number of software engineering and manufacturing management positions at Honeywell Information Systems.

 

Peter Cullivan, Vice President of Integration Services

Peter has been working with networking technologies since the early 90's in many different functions including enterprise network design, integration, support and project management. Peter has been with Covisia for 7 years starting off as lead engineer for the technology team and then transitioning into the role of Vice President of Technology and Service. During this time Peter was instrumental in establishing Covisia as a top Cisco solutions provider in New England. Prior to working at Covisia, Peter lead the engineering team at Dimension Data. While at Dimension Data Peter was responsible for the engineering team and its successful design and integration of enterprise class networks throughout the country.