ABOUT
Leading with trust.
CMIT Solutions is a recognized leader in Managed IT Services for businesses. We’re business owners too, so we understand the opportunities and challenges facing today’s organizations. Our exceptional team includes more than 250 franchise locations and 900 top technology practitioners who want to help your business succeed.
Our mission
You’re the focus of our mission. We empower businesses like yours by providing innovative technology solutions, managed IT services and cybersecurity.
Industry recognition
We’re honored to be recognized as a leading Managed Service Provider. In addition to local accolades across the communities we serve, we’ve also received awards from some of the most prestigious organizations in the industry. CMIT Solutions has consistently ranked on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500 list for more than a decade. What’s more, ConnectWise named CMIT Solutions Partner of the Year, the company’s highest partner honor.
Community driven
We’re actively engaged in helping businesses in the area succeed. With CMIT Solutions, you can count on the integrity of locally invested relationships backed by a strong multi-location network of resources.
Meet the CMIT Solutions Chicago Northwest Team
Paul Nelis (LinkedIn) is the owner of the Chicago Northwest territory of CMIT Solutions. Paul brings more than 35 years of IT and business experience to his customers in the area, and collaborates closely with other franchisees across the nation. While Paul started out on the Help Desk of a french bank, he quickly rose to run that help desk, before moving into consulting, where he helped companies world-wide with client server and database design, implementation, and performance management. It was in this role that Paul first ran a managed service, for Allstate Insurance Company. Managed Services have been part of his career ever since, whether developing, selling and running them for consulting companies or acquiring them as part of a corporate strategy for infrastructure management. He’s run Managed Services for the likes of Allstate, McDonald’s Corp, the states of Rhode Island, and New York. Paul has direct experience in consumer packaged goods, logistics, manufacturing, food service, finance, state and local government, retail, healthcare, legal, pharma, and other industry verticals. Most recently, concluding a term as the CIO for a $750 million healthcare company, Paul decided to bring his consulting and managed services skills to the companies within several miles of his home, in Wauconda, IL.
Read what people have written about working with Paul:
- “His integrity, honesty, and strategic outlook make him an invaluable resource to any organization.” — Nichole Hogan
- “Paul is a leader who demonstrates an unwavering commitment to leveraging technology to drive business objectives.” –Tina Hinshaw
- “Paul is one of the single most diligent, knowledgeable and articulate individuals I have ever encountered in my professional career.” — Mike Bruemmer
- “What impressed me is Paul’s breadth and depth of knowledge of all things IT… [a] trusted leader with whom you felt a sense of reassurance.” — Steve Bosanszki
- “His technical capability is impressive, but more importantly is his ability to communicate and make relevant and specific the value for each unique stakeholder is amazing.” — Sonia Cheng