Matt Zafirovski

Chief Executive Officer

Matt Zafirovski serves as CEO of Tusker, guiding the Executive team and the company’s portfolio with a calm, practical leadership style. He focuses on driving meaningful growth, strengthening customer relationships, and building solutions that move the business forward. Matt is also active in civic and nonprofit work, including long-standing service with the Golden Apple Foundation and support for Lurie Children’s Hospital and Macedonia2025.

Matt Gaudio

Chief Solutions Officer

Matt Gaudio serves as Tusker’s Chief Solutions Officer, where he works at the intersection of technology, strategy, and execution. He focuses on aligning people, processes, and platforms so teams can do their best work and customers see meaningful results. Matt has a long track record of simplifying complexity, strengthening services, and building solutions that fit the way organizations actually operate. He’s known for his collaborative style, his curiosity, and his commitment to helping smart people solve important problems with clarity and confidence.

Kush Patel

Chief Innovation Officer

Kush Patel serves as Tusker’s Chief Innovation Officer, guiding the work that connects new technology with real customer needs. He focuses on identifying what’s next, testing fresh ideas, and making sure innovation stays grounded in usefulness rather than hype. Working closely with leaders across the organization, Kush helps teams think differently, refine new offerings, and bring forward solutions that make work simpler and more effective for customers. His role ensures Tusker continues to evolve with purpose and provide meaningful value as technology and needs change.

Greg Marts

Director of Cloud Services

Greg Marts leads Cloud Services at Tusker, where he helps customers move their systems to the cloud with clarity and confidence. He brings deep experience in technical planning, security best practices, and hands-on project management, making complex work feel manageable and well-organized. Known for his calm communication style and ability to solve problems quickly, Greg focuses on designing workflows, strengthening reliability, and ensuring every cloud project delivers real value. His approach helps customers adopt the right technology, reduce friction, and keep their operations running smoothly.

Rod Kahl

Director of Cybersecurity

As Tusker’s Director of Cybersecurity, Rod Kahl leads the work that helps customers reduce risk and protect their most important systems. He focuses on clear assessments, effective controls, and solutions that fit smoothly into day-to-day operations. With experience across areas like endpoint protection, cloud security, and vulnerability management, Rod brings a thoughtful, grounded approach to safeguarding each environment. A CISSP-certified leader, he works closely with teams and partners to ensure customers have the confidence and protection they need in a fast-changing threat landscape.

John Irey

Vice President of Unified Communications and Connectivity

John Irey leads Unified Communications at Tusker with more than two decades of experience guiding customers through the full lifecycle of collaboration solutions. He supports everything from UCaaS and CCaaS deployments to the management of legacy systems, all while helping organizations build practical roadmaps for the future. John is known for making communication technology easier to understand and easier to use—ensuring every solution strengthens teamwork, reliability, and long-term flexibility.

Scott Tomashek

Vice President of AV Strategy

Scott Tomashek leads AV Strategy at Tusker with a blend of engineering expertise, long-term planning, and hands-on leadership. Over more than a decade, he has designed AV systems of every size, strengthened internal processes, and helped build a team committed to quality and clarity. Scott focuses on connecting the details of each project to a larger vision, ensuring customers get solutions that are practical, well-designed, and built to last. Known for his commitment to training and continuous improvement, he supports both his team and customers with an eye toward long-term value and meaningful collaboration.

Matt Cox

Chief Information Security Officer

With more than 20 years of experience across telecommunications, IT, and security, Matt Cox supports Tusker customers as both CISO and Cybersecurity Consultant. He brings a practical approach to assessing risk, improving defenses, and explaining complex security issues in a way that’s easy for any audience to understand. Known for his calm leadership and critical thinking, Matt focuses on solutions that protect the business while supporting real-world operations. His work helps organizations use security as a strength—building confidence, reducing risk, and enabling better outcomes.

Linda Dobinson

Director of Managed Services

Linda Dobinson leads Tusker’s Managed Services team with a calm, disciplined approach. She brings years of experience across IT strategy, data centers, SaaS, troubleshooting, and process improvement. With a B.B.A. in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota–Duluth, she pairs technical understanding with strong operational judgment. Linda is known for keeping teams and clients grounded, informed, and supported.

Mike Czerniak

Vice President of Professional Services

Mike leads Tusker’s professional services organization, bringing over 15 years of experience as a consultant, team lead, and practice leader. Formerly in a similar role at Mindsight, he focuses on scaling delivery excellence through strong governance, consistent execution, and high-performing teams that drive measurable client outcomes.