GreatAmerica Financial Services, a financing company offering office equipment leasing to the office equipment channel, has joined The Consortium, an assembly of innovative companies brought together by industry veteran, Mike Stramaglio, President and CEO of Stramaglio Consulting. The Consortium will focus on creating new opportunities for the office technology industry by tying industry leaders together to establish an open collaborative platform. This aims to enable the Imaging Channel to embrace and lead Digital Transformation (DX) – data and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven Business Agility.

According to Stramaglio, “The Consortium was created based on the premise the Imaging Channel is facing the greatest opportunities we have ever seen. GreatAmerica has proven to be more than a ‘rate card’ throughout the years and has established a culture of great imagination, innovation and dedication to improving the client experience. We are excited to have GreatAmerica join us as one of our founding members because of their commitment to improving our industry.”

Jennie Fisher, Vice President and General Manager of GreatAmerica Financial Services, is enthusiastic about the impact this newly formed group will have within the industry. “We’re honored to be a Consortium founding member and look forward to the collaboration and opportunities this presents for our office technology provider customers as a result. This is a critical time of digital transformation and puts GreatAmerica at the center of finding solutions to new business challenges.”

In addition to GreatAmerica, Consortium founding members include, Affinity, All Covered FORZA, Avalara, Chassi, DSD Strategy Consulting, Gridiron Capital, Pros Elite Group, Predictive Insight, Performance Now, Red Sage Group, Stramaglio Consulting, The Kingston Group, ZBA Solutions as well as media partners, BPO Media and Industry Analysts.

GreatAmerica has a long history of collaboration within the office technology space, as founding members of the Managed Print Services Association over a decade ago and Technology United, a collaborative group also formed with the leadership of Stramaglio back in 2011.

Founded by CEO Tony Golobic in 1992, GreatAmerica is a $2 billion national commercial equipment finance company. It is the largest independent, family-owned national commercial equipment finance company in the U.S.

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