Rick Kearney
Past Chair, ITFlorida
President & CEO, Mainline Information Systems

Rick Kearney is CEO of Mainline Information Systems, Inc., a company he founded in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1989. Mainline is a Premier IBM Business Partner and sells more IBM large systems than any other business partner worldwide. Mainline has an international marketing presence in Brazil, Canada, and Mexico.

Mainline has been on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing privately held companies in the United States for many years as well as listed in Florida Trend as one of the top 200 privately held companies.

Kearney is also the owner/developer of Summit East, a futuristic technology office park in Tallahassee. This high-tech, high amenity park offers an environment for businesses whose most important asset is their employees.

Kearney received the Ernst and Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" and the JMI "Entrepreneur of the Decade" awards in recent years.