About Us

Principal and founder Cameron Owen formed Collaborative Technology Partners in 2002 as a professional services consulting company focused on finding a best solution based upon a very process oriented approach. Much of our work involves Microsoft Exchange, Windows and Active Directory implementations and migrations, and yet our "typical" project is often not the rote migration, but rather tailored to individual customer needs based upon requirements, constraints and technology.

CTP is expressly focused on the needs of small and medium sized companies, and brings two unique capabilities: an enterprise perspective, and a vision of how technology is transforming for small business. The management team at CTP is unique in that its members have come from large consulting organizations, where they have practiced a very professional approach to delivering enterprise services to large organizations. Our management team has the further quality that each of us has a personal interest in working with small and medium businesses, and we have invested a number of years towards learning how to adapt an enterprise approach to our clients. Our experience has been that our approach is very well received and appreciated by our clients.

There is a dichotomy to our blend of consulting and managed services. In one sense these services are mutually exclusive, for it would seem that a company would choose either to have its own IT organization supported by consulting services, or commit its IT operations to a managed services organization, to be operated within the context of a customized Service Level Agreement and predictable monthly fee. The ongoing transformation of IT, and our careful development of a services product line make the distinction between consulting and managed services less clear. Organizations may choose to turn over specific aspects of their IT infrastructure to a managed services arrangement, acknowledging the increasing commodity status of core network services, while retaining control of the “next generation” technologies within IT. We believe that our suite of service offerings provide a continuum that addresses well the needs of SMB in the current technology environment.

Principal and founder: Cameron H. Owen, Ph.D., MCSE
Cameron Owen has been an IT consultant for over 15 years, engaging and leading consulting teams for projects ranging from 30,000+ seats to very small, for global companies with many offices to companies with a single office. Cam has worked with consulting firms ranging from very small to international, as a consultant directly engaged in projects as well as developing new business and leading project teams. Cam has direct experience with most of the technologies in use within IT today, including the common operating systems, LAN / WAN / firewall technologies, Citrix, servers and workstations, SANs, server clustering and backup. Cam has over 15 years of programming experience with languages ranging from assembly (main frame) to C.

Prior to his consulting career, Cam was a biomedical researcher in the field of Structural Biology. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University, Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brandeis University, and took a joint appointment at The Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The analytic approach coming from many years of research has a way of finding itself into design and implementation of projects, as does an often creative approach to developing projects within industry that are unique in addressing the particular requirements of an individual company.

Brian Doherty, Sales Director
Mr. Doherty is an experienced sales executive and a veteran of the networking industry with over 20 years of direct sales and sales management experience.  Mr. Doherty joined CTP in the summer of 2004, with responsibility for building the sales organization of the company. Mr. Doherty co-founded his own company, BizTech Partners, from Lucent Technologies, a provider of networking products and solutions, where he drove business in Lucent’s Northeast Regional accounts in both the Enterprise and Carrier markets. He spent over five years in sales management at Lucent’s Data Networking Division, contributing to their growth from start-up to the fastest growing division within Lucent.  Mr. Doherty has vast experience in recruiting, developing, motivating, and directing sales and engineering organizations and has been highly successful in driving acceptance of new technology in small and mid-sized businesses. Previous to Lucent Technologies, Mr. Doherty was a sales executive at Bay Networks, which was acquired by Nortel Networks.  At Bay, he excelled at servicing small and mid-sized businesses throughout New England.  In this capacity Mr. Doherty learned the unique requirements and value demands of clients in this market segment, which makes up over 98% of the existing businesses in New England.

Paul Feener, Director of Technical Managed Services
Mr. Feener has been working in the Information Technology field for over 35 years. Mr. Feener started with IBM in 1970 and worked as a Systems Engineer and Project Manager until leaving IBM in 1993. Mr. Feener joined National Grid as the Manager of Network Services and later as the Director of Technical Services. Mr. Feener left National Grid and in 1998 and worked in the Managed and Professional Services industry at AimNet Solutions before coming to Collaborative Technology Partners in 2006.