About

For over 29 years, Dan has served in various roles in the information technology industries. Today, Dan serves as the President & CEO and owner of ProTech Services Group, Inc., a Memphis, TN based services company. ProTech is a business solutions company focused on meeting the technology & talent needs of businesses.

A proud Memphian, Dan is married to his wife Mikki and they have 4 sons, Braeden, Hunter, Peyton and Oakley and 2 grandchildren, Gage and Dominic.  Dan attended the University of Memphis and has earned multiple leadership and executive management designations. Dan graduated from the 2017 Leadership Memphis Executive Program, is a Greater Memphis Chamber Chairmen’s Circle member and also serves on the board of directors for The PeyitForward Foundation (Non-profit developed to honor his late son, Peyton), Streets Ministries, the Memphis Shelby County Crime Commission, Leadership Memphis and the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce (Chamber Benefits, Inc.)

Amit Kanda is the Chief Operating Officer for ProTech Services Group.

In this role, Amit leads the Operations and Engineering teams to develop & deploy innovative new technology and service offerings to ProTech customers and prospects. Furthermore, he works hard to ensure that the excellent customer service standards for which ProTech is known for continue at unprecedented levels, far exceeding customers’ expectations.

In addition to leading the Engineering and Operations team, Amit is also responsible for leading all business development efforts for ProTech ensuring growth of the business.

Prior to joining ProTech, Kanda worked for Expedient as Market Vice President responsible for business growth and expansion efforts in the Southeast region. Before Expedient Kanda held other key positions as Chief Operating Officer at EVS Corporation & Sale Engineer at Zayo Bandwidth (formerly Memphis Networx), where he led numerous large-scale projects, including developing and managing backup & disaster Recovery Solutions, managing the design of citywide telecom and data networks for two school districts and first Fiber to the Tower project for Verizon Wireless.

Kanda received a Bachelor of Commerce from Delhi University and his post-graduate degree in business management from the All Indian Management Association in New Delhi, India.

With proven experience managing IT, engineering, and operations teams, Kanda’s strong leadership is an excellent complement to ProTech Services Group.

Business technology operations and development leader with over 25 years “hands on” experience ranging from enterprise software architecture and development to business planning and development. This includes strategic business technology planning and budgeting, technical sales, ongoing operational management, and acquisitions. Skilled in all phases of project life cycle, feasibility analysis, concept design, implementation, enhancement and support. Effective at building team-based operating units and critical customer and vendor alliances.

Specialties: Strategic & Operation Technology planning, IT Infrastructure Design & Implementation, Technology Architecture and Integration, Virtualization, Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures, Team Building and Management, Business Process Re-engineering, Technical Sales, Customer Management, Software Architecture and Development, Data Modeling and Database Design.

Over 19 years of experience in Enterprise technology and team management along with expertise in Oracle databases, Java, XML, Web Services, Open Source Software, and various other technologies.

Mike is a graduate from Dyersburg State Community College with a degree in Manufacturing Systems Technology and Union University with a degree in Business Administration. Mike has worked in various technical levels within IT organizations for nearly 30 years. Mike has worked in local IT management, global IT organizations for over 15,000 users and SMB markets for the majority of his career.  Since joining ProTech in 2010, Mike has worked to build the Network Operations Center, our world class 24/7 HelpDesk/ServiceDesk, Field, project and Managed Services technical departments, growing the staff from approximately 4 engineers to a staff of over 30 local and remote engineers.  Mike is married with 4 children, is an elder for his local church and President of the Board for the Crockett Christian School.