Lior Blik

President and CEO, Network Infrastructure Technologies, Inc. (NIT)

Lior Blik, President and CEO, Network Infrastructure Technologies, Inc., has grown his NYC-based, IT solutions company from just two employees to nearly 75 full-time employees since its founding. In this role, Mr. Blik oversees business development efforts and manages solutions ranging from assessments to enterprise-wide IT management. Making a client’s needs his first priority, Mr. Blik acknowledges the need to understand each client’s business goals before NIT can assess the client’s IT needs.

Since June 2007, Mr. Blik has served as Hoboken University Medical Center’s (HUMC) Acting Chief Information Officer. NITHealth, a division of NIT, manages oversight of information technology systems at HUMC, providing planning, infrastructure management, hardware and software upgrades, staffing, training and IT support for all hospital departments. HUMC was recently named “Hospital of the Year” by New Jersey business journal, NJBIZ.

Mr. Blik believes in focusing on the client’s bottom line, such as cost containment. “One of the values we bring to all of our clients is cost savings,” he says. “We do not take vendors’ recommendations for granted; we question them and seek alternatives. Being an independent provider of IT management,” Mr. Blik says, “gives us the ability to use our experience to negotiate the best contracts and optimal solutions on behalf of our clients.” Commitment, value and reliability are at the core of Mr. Blik’s business philosophy.

Craig Calafiore

Executive Vice President Sales, Network Infrastructure Technologies, Inc. (NIT)

Craig Calafiore is Executive Vice President Sales for NIT. Mr. Calafiore oversees sales activities for both NIT Health, NIT’s business unit focused on serving healthcare providers, and NIT Connect, serving small to mid-size professional, manufacturing and service industries.

In this role, Mr. Calafiore manages the sale for applications and networks, as well as manages ventures with other companies to build relationships, yielding new business wins for this growing IT company.

Prior to joining NIT in 2007, Mr. Calafiore held several executive positions overseeing extensive sales and customer support activities in companies providing technology solutions for diverse client bases including Aquis Communications, The Cal Group, Inc., and Skytel, Inc. Working with customers to deliver high-quality IT services, Mr. Calafiore has the inherent ability to look around the next corner and anticipate customers’ needs, helping to put NIT on the cutting edge of IT management.

Melissa Ross

Chief Technology Officer, Network Infrastructure Technologies, Inc. (NIT)

Melissa Ross has joined NIT Connect as their Chief Technology Officer. Previously a director at Orchestria Inc., she was responsible for managing enterprise-wide implementations for many of their largest customers. Melissa has over 15 years of technical support and implementation experience in a wide range of industries including financial, media and non-profit organizations.

A native New Yorker, she has always lived and worked in the New York area, attaining her master’s degree in Information Systems from New York University. She views the city as the ideal location for developing cutting-edge technologies into products and applications that are indispensable to the success of any business.

She believes that providing excellent service to customers is the best way to build strong, lasting relationships, and sees the viability of any organization rooted in an understanding of how to most efficiently meet their customer’s needs.