Rick Bahl

President

Rick Bahl is the President of Quality Systems Solutions, Inc., an IT solutions provider offering hardware, software and services to small and medium-sized business in the Chicago Metro area. He has over 14 years experience implementing and maintaining IT solutions in the SMB space. He draws upon is military experience and nearly a decade of test engineering for a large defense contractor to apply the discipline required to solve problems quickly and efficiently.

Prior to starting Quality Systems Solutions, Inc. he held a senior management position for a local manufacturing company. He has managed projects for companies ranging from a small three person Financial Planning firm up to some of the largest of the Fortune 500.

Rick is a member of Heartland Technology Peer Group 13 and is the Facilitator for Heartland Technology Peer Group 19. An HTG peer group is a group of 6-12 like-minded IT company leaders who meet quarterly in a non-competitive environment to network and discuss issues specific to each member's concerns as a company owner, president or manager. The HTG peer group experience is a unique forum for technology industry resellers who are serious about implementing a model for success in their own businesses through sharing and collaboration of best practices.

Rick is also one of ten members on the Microsoft Small Business Specialist Community (SBSC) Advisory Board, representing the Central Region-Midwest Area. See the local blog for more information on the Microsoft SBSC Midwest Area.

Rick serves in a similar capacity at the international level as one of three partners representing the United States as an SBSC PAL (Partner Area Lead). Read more about Rick’s service as a PAL, or find him on Facebook.

He is a Board member of his local Chamber, the VP of the Business Power Connection lead sharing group, and is a Community Leader in the Willow Creek Community Church Neighborhood Ministry.

As a member of the Carpentersville community since 1991, he lives with his wife, two children a dog and a cat.