Kevin Tolly is the founder and guiding force of The Tolly Group, a leading, global provider of independent testing and third-party validation services for the Information technology industry. Tolly founded the The Tolly Group two decades ago and has nearly 30 years of experience in the Information Technology industry.

At The Tolly Group, he has guided the company to become the premier provider of IT validation services across a wide range of Enterprise, SMB and service-provider class technologies. Tolly Group reports have been translated into more than a dozen languages and are used in all major markets around the world.

As a speaker, he has delivered countless presentations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Asia and Australia discussing IT architectures as well as results of Tolly Group tests. He can be heard on webcasts and podcasts of Tolly Group customers, as well. Tolly is an award-winning analyst/author and has written over 300 columns, lab and full-length feature stories for publications such as Network World, Computerworld, Business Communications Review, Data Communications.