Christopher Ferrera

Chris was born and raised in Staten Island, New York. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife of eighteen years and has three children. His career in Information Technology started in 1998 after 2 years of working on Wall Street as a Stock Broker. While he enjoyed working in the financial field, he followed his natural calling of designing, installing and managing computer networks. While and after attending Technical School, he worked at 2 different “dot com” companies where he honed and expanded his technical skill set as well as delivering excellent customer service to the end users his department serviced.

After the events of September 11, Chris was offered a position at a local Staten Island company called InterGlobe Communications and he accepted. His initial responsibilities included helping the company’s employees to learn more about selling and supporting data networking infrastructures, and Voice over IP Technologies to Enterprise Clients. Other responsibilities involved deploying and supporting communications solutions for a large variety of organizations inclusive of publicly traded organizations and government agencies.

In 2008, Chris along some of his colleagues partnered together to create a business named Comserv Consulting. Eight years later in 2016 Chris formed Comserv Connect, where he continued to fine tune offerings that encompassed a wider scope of technologies as well as becoming a Federally Regulated Internet Telephony Service provider.

Within his career, Chris has affiliated himself with many organizations in the New York and New Jersey Metropolitan areas. He has helped solve a variety of business issues relating to technology and the leverage needed for IT to enhance and increase their profitability through technology.

Aside from his expanding business Chris remains very active in the community. He first joined the Staten Island Rotary Club back in 2007 and then in 2008 he joined the Staten Island Bucks. He spent many years on the board at these organizations. Today Chris is the current President of the Bucks which is known as the largest true Networking Club on Staten Island. He has served on other boards including the Broadway YMCA, Alzheimer’s Association of Staten Island, and recently became involved with the Strategic Planning Committee for Notre Dame Academy. Comserv Connect is an active member of the SIEDC and the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce. In 2013 he was awarded The Louis R Miller Award from the SI Chamber of Commerce.

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