Specialties
A Chicago based IT Transformation & Cybersecurity leader with a focus on delivering Quiet IT from vision to execution. We partner with businesses small and large including Private Equity, Mid-Market, & Fortune 100 to provide integrated IT services. We believe IT should serve the business versus impacting its execution. Therefore, we offer a clear vision for a scalable, secure, cost optimized & low risk IT end state. We execute our services across three practice, first an advisory practice that roadmaps our IT strategy, an execution practice ensuring that roadmap turns into reality and a management practice keeping infrastructures on track as they evolve to serve the business. This makes RKON a single point IT partner.
History
Established in 1998.
Co-founders Jeff Mullarkey and Marc Malizia started RKON as a Citrix/Security Services firm designed to help clients leverage the internet as a lower cost option to deploy applications. Our mission has always been around bringing innovative technologies and strategies to our clients in a proven and low risk method. While we've grown and morphed over the years, our passion around early adoption, innovation and high quality design and implementation has become the cornerstone of our culture.
The meaning behind the name RKON, is Remote KONnectivity (connectivity with a k). Since our founding, we have helped hundreds of clients design and implement scalable, secure, high availability business application environments to meet the ever changing requirements of a mobile workforce and remote locations.
Meet the Business Owner: Jeff M.
Previous to RKON, Jeff served as General Manager to a MicroAge in the Chicago area leading the growth of that organization from 3 million to 25 million in a three-year period. Jeff received his B.S. in Marketing from Illinois State. Jeff is an avid triathlete and claims to have visited all the "cool" national parks in the US.
