Brian Roy

justSignal founder and Super Geek, Brian Roy has been in love with two things most of his life, music and technology. The music story is better for another venue, after all we are all professionals here! Once Brian realized making a living playing guitar was less than optimal, he threw himself into the wonderful world of 1s and 0s. Growing up in Minnesota, he got (gained access is more appropriate) to his first computer when he was 12, promptly taking it apart and putting it back together, until he understood how it worked. This is still true today, he must know how everything works. He has spent the majority of his career finding creative ways to solve business problems, leveraging technology when possible.

Brian spent many years with eLoyalty, consulting in the CRM space, back in the day, when CRM was “it”. Today the “it” has changed to Social Media. Brian’s roots in CRM provide a unique view into this new mysterious world. This, coupled with his many years in Fortune 100, mean Brian only knows one way to build a platform, one that is bulletproof – what else would a company like Intuit expect? Brian spent 6 years at Intuit as an Emerging Technology Architect.

A proven leader and “closet” entrepreneur, Brian finally took the plunge to fulfill his long overdue dream of starting his own software company. Being an entrepreneur at heart, often hidden or lost in Fortune 100 companies, Brian now has the freedom to take bigger risks and solve bigger problems for companies in a whole new way. What most people say about Brian is – he is a great thinker who understands that all the thinking is useless without outstanding execution. He is very passionate about the use of technology to do meaningful work. He has an amazing ability to partner with customers, end users and technologists. He designed and built a pretty clever v1 application in the basement that was launched and in use in 6 weeks. This a fairly normal day at The Roy house!

What’s happening at The Roy house today, like any other day, you’ll find racks of servers in the laundry room, full VoIP functionality, an extensive IVR system, 4 Macs, 2 very energetic girls ages 6 and 4, two 100 lb black labs, 1 Japanese Chin, and his wife Kelly, who also recently started her own consulting company Plumsoup. So, welcome to our world – where everyday we try to find the signal through all the noise!

justSignal, is a new kind of social medial platform, providing tools that enable business to “do” social media and deliver actual business results. justSignal helps businesses, PR & Markeing agencies, experiment with, craft, and drive improvements for their business.