JASON LAMBIRIS:
Founder and CEO of Apex Digital Solutions in Sterling Heights. Founded in 1998, Apex provides managed, traditional, and green IT services. Responsible for the management of Apex's overall strategy and technology direction, Lambiris is an active advisor and virtual CIO/CTO for many of his clients. Under his leadership, Apex has moved from a traditional IT provider to one which offers managed services, resulting in doubling revenue and increasing staff more than 60 percent. He led Apex to earn
Corp! magazine's Best of Michigan Businesses award for technology companies and was later selected as one of
Corp! Entrepreneurs of Distinction for continuing to expand Apex. Previously, Lambiris was a software consultant and project manager. Active in the business and nonprofit community, he serves on the executive board of Midwest Technology Leaders, as a board member of the Children's Center of Detroit, and on the Oakland University Executive Advisory Council. He joined the Macomb-Oakland University INCubator as a corporate partner and advisory board member in 2009. As a member of the Distinguished Clown Corp., Lambiris leads an independent effort each year to raise funds to send underprivileged children from the Detroit area to America's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He is a former board member of Marketing and Sales Executives of Detroit and was a finalist for their platinum award for sales and marketing success in 2005. Lambiris received his associate's degree in construction technologies from Macomb Community College. He attended Oakland University to pursue a bachelor's degree in both computer science engineering and management information systems.
