Leadership Team

From the beginning, ANM’s experienced and committed leadership has insisted on integrity and professionalism in every area and at every level of the workplace. Meet the Leadership Team members who are moving ANM forward in the industry, even as they work to foster a sense of “family” among employees and ensure a safe, positive environment for success.

Maninder Mann, President
Maninder has over 25 years of combined experience in the fields of education, healthcare and technology. With a master’s degree in literature, Maninder has first-hand experience working with education professionals. In addition, she is a licensed nurse, aware of the technology needs of healthcare institutions. Maninder’s diverse business background is the cornerstone of ANM’s ability to align technology solutions to key verticals, including K-12 schools, universities, healthcare, and government. From the founding of ANM, Maninder has maintained that the two key fundamentals of the company’s success are engineering excellence and customer service.

Raminder Mann, CEO
CCIE# 17940
ANM’s CEO, Raminder Mann, is passionate about aligning technology solutions to business needs, making IT more relevant to business. Raminder has over 15 years of business and technology experience along with a master’s degree in electrical engineering. Over the course of his career, Raminder has worked for multiple organizations, including Fortune 100 companies, like Cisco. Raminder believes in building a culture of success and helping employees deliver great results while maintaining a strong work-life balance. A significant amount of Raminder’s time is spent in recruitment and hiring to ensure every new employee upholds ANM’s core values and culture.

Vance Krier, CTO
CCIE# 14212
Chief Technical Officer Vance Krier brings over 18 years of diverse technology experience to ANM. A team member since 1998, Vance has been instrumental in developing the core of ANM’s Enterprise IT Solutions business. He is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Cisco products and solutions. In addition, he has attained the highest levels of industry certification and recognition from multiple manufacturers, including Cisco, Microsoft, VMWare, and more. Vance is a technologist with an excellent sense for developing technology solutions that align with and solve our customers’ business and technology challenges. Given his long tenure with ANM and extensive industry and business experience, Vance is a key escalation resource for all business units. His role as CTO includes work with ANM teams–both internal and client-specific–to guide the technology direction for vendor relationships.

Aman Arora, VP-Operations
CCIE# 35128
Aman has over 10 years of business and technology experience specifically focused around sales and delivery of complex IT projects. After earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, Aman spent many years consulting for several Fortune 100 companies. As Vice-President of Operations, Aman works with ANM’s project management and engineering teams to ensure successful delivery of every customer project. Because of his passion around service delivery, Aman continuously works to improve ANM’s PMO and Project Delivery methodology.

Goran Velickovski, VP-Sales
For the past decade, Goran has focused on providing sales and technical leadership in delivery of IT solutions for enterprises. As a result, he has helped customers improve productivity, reduce costs, increase employee and customer satisfaction, and add overall value to the bottom line. Goran supports ANM’s customer-first philosophy and strives to build long-term relationships based on mutual understanding. As Vice-President of Sales, Goran helps the sales team align solutions to customers’ business goals and objectives.

Adam Ordal, Director-Core Infrastructure Practice
CCIE#42464
With over a decade of professional experience, Adam brings to his role an in-depth level of expertise across several different technologies, including Cisco, Microsoft, VMware, Linux, EMC. In addition, he possesses a thorough understanding of leading competitors’ products. As a Director of Core Infrastructure Practice, Adam is responsible for ensuring that our customers are provided with infrastructure solutions that fit their needs today and allow for future growth.

Kyle Petree, Director-Managed Services
Kyle Petree has been part of the ANM team since 2002, and has been instrumental in developing ANM’s Managed Services Practice. With over 17 years of Information Technology experience, Kyle is deeply passionate about customer success. This passion–together with Kyle’s solid technical background and extensive experience in IT consulting–uniquely position him to drive the best support team in the industry. Kyle and his wife Sue spend their free time exploring the beautiful wilderness of the southwest.

James Arnold, Director – Solutions Engineering
CCIE Voice #25900
With over 10 years of experience, James is able to leverage a rich history of practical and theoretical knowledge to help customers solve business problems with technology solutions. James has designed, architected, implemented, troubleshot, upgraded, and decommissioned solutions internationally across many industries and organization sizes, from start-ups to Fortune 100 firms. James manages the pre-sales engineering team at ANM and strives to help the sales team deliver cost-effective custom solutions to our customers.

Colby Elliott – Director of Sales
Colby’s passion is helping people, and his people-first approach to sales and customer service has built lasting relationships with his customers. He brings 10+ years of sales, project management, and business strategy and development experience in the technology industry to ANM. During his career he’s worked for Fortune 100 IT companies and regionally focused technology resellers and integrators. Colby manages short and long term sales, as well as marketing and business development strategy.

Meralys Stephens – Director of Human Resources
Meralys has more than ten years of human resources experience in the areas of employee relations, organizational development, benefits management, compliance, developing policies and procedures, employee communications, recruitment, and performance management. Prior to joining ANM in 2015, she held management positions with large, midsize, and small companies in a variety of industries, including property management, tourism, and hospitality. As Director of Human Resources, she is responsible for implementing and leading the organization’s human resources strategies and programs. Meralys holds an MBA in Human Resources and is a member of the Society of Human Resources Managers (SHRM).