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Creating Explosive Growth by Harnessing the Power of People and Technology.

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Introduction

Brett Beveridge believes in combining people and technology to help companies reduce costs and increase sales whilst always exceeding customers’ expectations.

Brett is a retail expert, experienced entrepreneur, ForbesBooks author, and speaker.  From waiting tables to working in papaya fields and selling cell phones out of a van, Brett Beveridge leverages decades of experience within retail sales and technology to build strategies for today’s biggest retailers and Fortune 500 companies. Brett has been directly involved with the development, opening, and operating of over 1,000 retail communications stores nationwide, as well as the management of large-scale, high-performance field sales teams.

Harnessing the Entrepreneurial Spirit

After Brett sold Let’s Talk Cellular & Wireless to Nextel, Beveridge continued to harness his entrepreneurial spirit, raising millions from national venture capital firms like Goldman Sachs, to co-found LetsTalk.com, which became one of the largest online e-tailers of wireless products and services. In 2012, LetsTalk.com was acquired by Brightstar Corporation, the largest wireless handset distributor in the world.

Over the last 20 years, Beveridge has successfully founded more than 20 companies and used his experience to help national wireless and technology companies with reorganization, profit turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, and IPOs.

An Entrepreneur’s Journey

Beveridge learned the value of hard work from a young age, performing various jobs from waiting tables to even working in a papaya field. As a 23-year-old senior in the University of Miami, he started selling cell phones out of a van with a college friend, and impressively turned that bootstrap company into Let’s Talk Cellular & Wireless, which became the largest independent mobile wireless retailer in the country at the time with close to 300 stores nationwide. He would eventually take that company public and sell it to Nextel.

Associations & participation

Beveridge’s Organization Participation

Helping others succeed translates from Beveridge’s professional life to his personal life. Brett has given countless hours of his time to help bolster the community around him. His personal goal is to help shape young lives and offer them a better future.

Chair of the Consumer Technology Association’s Wireless Board

Past Chair of The Young Presidents Organization (YPO) of Miami

Big Brothers Big Sisters Miami

Past Chairman of the Foundation Board

Orange Bowl Committee

President’s Council and Citizens Board for the University of Miami

Member of United Way of Miami-Dade’s Tocqueville Society

Associations & Recognition for T-ROC

T-ROC continues to be acknowledged as one of the premier technology companies in South Florida. The company continuously provides an excellent work environment for employees while also staying at the forefront of new technology. T-ROC’s culture, growth, and expertise have been recognized by both local and national publications.

Brett: South Florida Business Journal’s 2022 Power Leaders List

T-ROC: South Florida Business Journal’s Top 100 Private Companies

T-ROC: South Florida Business Journal’s Fastest-Growing Companies (Revenue over $25M)

Brett: Florida Trend 500

VIBA: TWICE Picks Award winner at CES 2021

T-ROC and TRO: 2021 Inc. 5000 Regionals: Florida

South Florida Business Journal’s 2018 Best Places to Work

South Florida Business Journal’s 2018 Fast 50™

Business Intelligence Group’s 2019 Best Places to Work

2018 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™

South Florida Business Journal’s 2017 Best Places to Work

2016 South Florida Good to Great Awards®

2016 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™

2016 Software & Technology Awards by Corporate America News

2016 Inc. 5000
T-ROC: No. 1448
TRO: No. 376

South Florida Business Journal’s 2019 Fast 50™ – South Florida’s 50 Fastest Growing Companies

South Florida Business Journal’s 2019 Power Leaders List

2019 Inc. 5000
T-ROC: No. 1306
TRO: No. 899

Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500™

South Florida Business Journal’s 2019 – South Florida’s Private Companies

2018 Inc. 5000
T-ROC: No. 1698
TRO: No. 642

2017 Inc. 5000
T-ROC: No. 2319
TRO: No. 958

2010 Inc. 5000
TRO: No. 186

Associations & Recognition for Brett

Beveridge has harnessed his entrepreneurial spirit to build his success and continues to be a leading name in the world of entrepreneurship. For his continued hard work and perseverance as an entrepreneur, Beveridge has been recognized by multiple organizations.

2018 Gold Stevie® Award in the Entrepreneur of the Year – Retail category for The 16th Annual American Business Awards®

2017 Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Florida

South Florida Business Journal’s 2019 Power Leaders List

“Powerful Influencer” Leadership Award at the 2019 Extraordinary Women Leading Change 7th Annual Leadership Conference

South Florida Business Journal’s 2020 Power Leaders 250

Other Awards and Recognitions

In addition to the many acknowledgments that Beveridge and T-ROC have received, he has earned an impressive list of achievements throughout other aspects of his career. Through each endeavor, Beveridge consistently exemplifies expertise in the retail and technology industries.

  • The Retail Outsource was featured on the 2018 Inc 5000 list
  • The Retail Outsource was featured on the 2017 and 2016 Inc 5000 lists
  • Mobile Store Operators was the 2017 #1 Ranked T-Mobile Premiere Dealer in the U.S.
  • Mobile Store Operators was featured on the 2016 Best Placed to Work Awards by the South Florida Business Journal

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